Carroll Shelby Tribute thread. Be a part of it.

[427SnakeSC]

Carroll, I just wanted to thank you for starting a dream for me when I was a kid. I can remember my brother in law telling me about Cobra's when I was young. I was a Corvette kid then, didn't think anything could touch them. After my brother in law told me about the Cobra, I started getting pictures of them from car mags. I still remember the first pic I got. It was a red one, with a kinda surfer guy driving it. I just thought it was the coolest car ever! I lusted after them from that point on. Over the years I collected every book or magazine article on them. I researched everything I could find out about them! In Canada, we don't see them too often. Back then, never! I remember seeing the first replica. It was at Mosport and the Aurora factory was there promoting theirs. I looked at them, but they just didn't do it for me. I had promised myself that someday, I would own a real one. I remember seeing one in a parking lot near my home years later. It was nice, but I was still hoping to get the real thing. The years passed and the value of your creation escalated! I soon came to the realisation I would never own a real one. Then one year, I was reading an article in Playboy (doesn't everyone) and I saw that you were building them again. This rekindled my hope and dream. Through some poor investments and a marriage gone south, that dream slowly vapourised, too! It wasn't till many years later, I met the woman of my dreams! She was beautiful and an Asian! She found out about my dream and bought me a replica! I was so blown away, I found it hard to believe and deal with! I was in heaven! About a year after that, I started to talk about replacing the SB with a BB and trying to make it more "correct". My sweety, ever the business mind, told me "Why don't you order a real Shelby?" Sometimes I think she regrets that suggestion. It has rekindled my dream and my seach for everything I can find out about your car. So that is where my story ends, I have ordered one of your CSX. This CSX 4*** will be speced out as close to an original 66 SC as I can make it. I like to think that it is a tribute to you, that I am building it just as you built it back in 1966! It is proving to be a long wait, but I am sure it will be well worth it! Just wanted to say thanks!