MY RACING SHELBY

I WAS NOT NEW TO SHELBY Mustangs back in 1982. By then, I had been a machinist for 17 years in my home state of Maryland, and I owned a 1966 G.T. 350 (SFM6S2335). I’d been saving to fund another 1966 Shelby Mustang. The search began and a coworker, Steve Cox, showed me an advertisement for a ’66 Shelby in newspaper. I made the phone call and got the original owner’s wife. She said she had 50 calls on the car, and that she thought it was sold. I asked if a guy from Pennsylvania by the name of Wayne Conover bought the Shelby. She said she thought so. I knew Wayne and was waiting at his house when he got home with the Shelby. He said it was too good of a deal to pass up, but if I wanted