New magazine on SHELBY on the newsstands now

[Historybuff]

I paid I think under $7 for it at the regular bookstore (can't remember it it was Borders or Barnes & Noble). I think you will get your money back at some swap meet down the road. Admittedly, it's mostly the new '07 and '08 Shelby Mustangs featured throughout but it has at least three historical articles including a great one about the origin of the Terlingua Racing team logo. The magazine, which has lots of color, was edited by professional writers like Donald Farr who I venture to guess had their pick of the Petersen Publishing archives as far as art. I can't figure out if it's a quarterly but it is definitely not a monthly because it has a Keep-on-Sale notice extending several months. There are lots of ads in it for the new Team Shelby club so I guess this is the club magazine in effect though I can't remember if the list of items provided by the club promises any magazine. Of course the club will have a website.

If you have any lingering doubts why Shelby found it necessary to fund a new club ,known as Team Shelby, these will be dispelled by the new magazine which promotes the cars Shelby and Ford are making now. My theory is that Shelby and Ford wanted to promote the cars they are making now and had to have a publication that would put those cars up front, ahead of the historical stuff. I like the illuminating news about the new models but just hope each and every issue will continue to have a historical component as well as there are still plenty of good stories to be unearthed ....