Tony Dreier doesn’t mind driving his fabulous 1966 GT-350 Shelby Mustang around and having some fun with it. He actually drove it regularly for years before he restored it.
But Dreier jokes that “I try not to have it out of my sight too long,” and you can’t really blame him. He isn’t paranoid or overly protective, it’s just that his Shelby has a bit of a star-crossed past. It was apparently stolen several times during its early days. It’s been chased, shot at, kidnapped, repainted, recovered and eventually banished to a salvage yard. Dreier, a resident of Clintonville, Wis., doesn’t expect the GT-350 to ever go missing again while he still has the title, but you never know.
“It’s a little sketchy. I only have information from the guy I bought it from. It was bought brand new [in San Antonio, Texas] and it was stolen once or twice or three times, he wasn’t even sure, and the insurance company paid out on it a couple of times, and after about the third or fourth time, they scrapped it and took it to a place called Apache Salvage Yard in San Antonio,” Dreier says. “A guy named Lee Eubanks must have bought it from the salvage yard, and whoever had stolen it last had painted it green. They must
