This article was originally published in October 2019. I thought it needed revisiting in light of the rare Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe up for auction this year during Monterey Car Week. Mike Gulett - Editor ~~~~ The Shelby Daytona Coupe beat the … [Read more...]
Ford GT40 — America’s Favorite Race Car
January 19, 2026 By 5 Comments
by Mike Gulett - The Ford GT40 is one of the most important racing cars ever—an American engineering answer to European dominance that reshaped endurance racing and created a legend that still echoes through motorsport and collector car culture … [Read more...]
Lance Reventlow and Carroll Shelby
November 13, 2025 By 7 Comments
by Mike Gulett - The connection between Lance Reventlow and Carroll Shelby is one of the most fascinating stories in American motorsport history. Reventlow literally handed his workshop and people to Shelby who would then use them to build the … [Read more...]
The Mid-Engine (Almost) AC Shelby
November 10, 2025 By 2 Comments
Diving deep in the archives all the way back to October 2016 I found this interesting story that is still interesting 9 years later. Made even more so since a reader sent in a recent photo of this unique car (see the first comment). Mike Gulett, … [Read more...]
Sunbeam Tiger: The British-American Muscle Cat That Roared
October 27, 2025 By 3 Comments
by Mike Gulett - In the mid-1960s, when British sports cars were charming but lacked muscle, one compact roadster emerged with a growl loud enough to wake Detroit. The Sunbeam Tiger was a fusion of two worlds — a sleek British body with an American … [Read more...]
A Biographer Looks Back
September 27, 2025 By 5 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I realized the other day that it it's been almost a half century, 47 years to be exact, since I published my first book, a hard cover entitled Shelby's Wildlife; the Cobras and the Mustangs. It was a best seller, according … [Read more...]
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