I just read this book over the holiday's. It's a great read. Love this period in auto racing history and he captures it well. Thank you Mr. Morton for making the effort to share your experiences from this time with the rest of us!
That cobra in the background is absolutely stunning!! The beautiful blue paint job, and the side exhaust flares and headlights and chrome and just the whole look of the car is so Drop Dead Gorgeous I would do anything to own one..
I jumped into this book yesterday and can't put it down. Having met John Morton last fall at a BBQ for BRE enthusiast was a major event for me. He's a true gentleman and an American Racing Hero!
This is COOL. "Jay's Book Club" and J"ay's Garage" Really a great source of input for my life long interest in fast stuff on wheels. Thank You Jay Leno. Your Online Show is terrific. Really. Your features are always interesting, with great looks at stuff i'll never get to see anywhere else. I really hope you don't get tired of doing it. Imagine, you may be becoming a big King Of Cars. Grin ? "John Morton" picked me up at the slot car track one night and drove me home. It was 1964 or 65. I was 15 and loved racing. So instead driving straight home we drove fast around and around my block. He made it a race track. He had a Ford Galaxie. It was raining, and dark, but with good street lights and parked cars all over the place. Oh man that fun was big. The ride of my life. Thanks John. All these years haven't fogged that thrill... I never had a better time in my life. Remember that John? Inches from embarrassment, we drifted in power slides that only people like you can do. I have to figure out how to say hello. I'm from years past.. Long time no see John. I"m Ole's kid, Mike. I enjoyed watching your success through the years. Hope you see this comment. Gonna order your book now. We could talk about a lot of the old days... thanks Jay
Chris Saddler Sam It's no secret that the british Top Gear is a circus with cars and is hosted by 3 clowns. The show is silly, because that's the whole idea/concept behind it. It never tries to be serious, instead it attempts to get us to smile. And guess what, it works. You don't have to like it, but so many people love it, your opinion is simply irrelevant. P.S.: The american copy is just a bad copy. Watchable, but it does not go to the same extremes. Probably due to the lack in funds.
I signed off with top gear after hearing Jeremy trash talk the U.S. automobiles and specifically the people a few times. You want to talk cars fine and your entitled to you opinion but to broadcast your snide remark’s on TV is wrong. The episode that really did it for me was when they were on a road trip through Alabama and wrote insulting things on their cars. They got the response they asked for and got run out of town then talked trash. I’m sure if anyone were to talk trash and insult the locals in Liverpool it’d reap a similar response. It was just deserved. They started sh*t, ran like cowards and instead of giving a deserved apology to Alabama they talked trash afterwards. A real demonstration of how you can have money and have Low class. I hope their show tanks.
I raced in England when I was 19 and 20 years of age back in the late 1960s. Even at the club racing level there was plenty of competition but it was at least affordable and possible to be competitive to the extent of not running at the back every time! Winning of course was a foregone conclusion since many factory-sponsored drivers and cars were often mixed in with us amateur club guys. I can claim I once raced against Jack Sears in my Mini 998cc against Sears in his Ford Galaxy with one million cc - well put it this way, I saw him at the start on the grid, then never saw him again throughout the race! I cannot imagine being able to afford racing today though!
Great visit, Jay! I was outside the hangar where the Shelby team was headquartered the year that Ken Miles pranged the 427 Cobra, looking in. There, to my amazement, was Ken Miles, the team leader, welding that broken car with his driving gloves on. He had given orders not to break the cars: "If you break it, you fix it!" True to his word, he fixed it as best he could. Of course, the frame was really badly bent. I don't think they really ever got the alignment totally sorted out. As I recall, and it was a long time ago, the tree he hit was between the Esses and the Hairpin. How he lost it there is a mystery. But John Morton's book will be great fun to read! Thanks, Jay!
Oh yes those were the days. Never had money for any car to speak of but had a Rambler. Eventually went to work for AMC dealer and then on to a Lincoln Mercury dealer where the high point of my involvement with cars was checking in and servicing as well as test driving new Panteras. That was as close as I ever got to cars. I later went to motorcycle racing and was racing them on one side of Albuquerque while Al Unser Jr was racing go karts on the west side. Fun days!!! Also raced bikes with a young man by the name of Dave Campos who set a Land Speed record for Harley Davidson in 1990 of 322 MPH at Bonneville. Nice Guy. Mike PS I like this GIG Jay !!!! Keep it up.
Jay, Thanks for the video and thanks for this Channel, you cover a lot of different cars and motorcycles, very interesting. The only thing I got out of you "retiring" from the Tonight Show is an extra hour of sleep before work. Won't be the same Jay. Thanks again for your channel.
l think back then the lack of sponsers allowed you to do what you wanted , but now its all about selling a product, the winner has to change his hat 4 times while on the winners circle, kinda deminishes the drivers personality,,,
Yeah for sure. Even if the driver was able to get a win with a total crap car they would still have to say “ I need to thank this Budweiser, Castrol, Target, M&M, Ajax, Goodyear tire, Red Lobster, Toyota Preius team for giving me such a great car today”
Jay now that you're done with Late night TV. I'm thinking a weekend, hour long car show is your next calling. Many of us (if not all of your subscribers) would loyally watch. A 10 minute product corner with a 10 minute book club.....thing. Plus a special guest (car) review. Combine all three videos that your RUclips channel puts up in some combination. to make a weekly show please. It's really only your youtube channel and Top Gear UK that I find entertaining in any way shape or form. You could fill a major hole if you do it right.
shelby cobra has been my favorite car since the first time i saw it. i believe that was in the movie with Elvis. what a piece of automotive history.Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
I wonder if Jay will devote more of his free time to making these videos. I'd like to see something new that he hasn't had a chance to do before. Perhaps broadcast quick shows from the garage like if it were the tonight show, but with cars!
A good pal had a coffee table book on Shelby, read as much as I could, two years later, I wound up working on the last year of production in Whittier Ca. Shelby/Dodge Dakota program. What fun, and work too!
Jay, Now that you have more time on your hands, I hope you crank out a few more of these. I love the feeling I get from these videos that you're just another car geek, just as excited by the cars as I am. How about another update on the Daimler Dart? Thanks.
I really liked the video , as I am a Ford guy. I own 2 mustangs , 1 old and 1 new. It's great to still see Jay , as I will miss not seeing him on the tonight show .
my dad remembers when shelby was basically throwing parts out of his shop. just to make room. he regrets not keeping any of it. no one had a clue it would go up in value.
Yeah Jay does a great job,he loves this stuff and it shows,I never knew he was into cars till he told that crazy story on the tonight show about when motorbike broke down his stock went way up with me and my love of cars,oh yeah the one other time was at the antique races at Laguna Seca talking about the cheetah it rolls it explodes...first time I heard that...hilarious too especially when ur standing there with the guy who spent 30 years of his life perfecting that motor...
subscribed right after watching I didint think about Jay haveing a channel. I love hearing about that era also. The story of owner/operater with no financial help, but a bunch of hot rodders from southern cali, take on the huge manufactuers from europe. I would love to read about that from a first hand perspective.
I got a tour of Shelby American back in 65 or 66, they were turning out GT350's when I was there. My brother worked for the nickel cadmium battery division at G.E. and they were talking to Shelby about doing a total loss ignition system on race cars with nicad batteries. I don't think it ever happened.
NICE!!! I had to stop the vid 3 times to google image the scarab, 904, and 904 engine but what a cool time it must have been when you could build a car without GPS, Traction Control, ABS, Data accusition, Carbon fiber, fuel injection, variable timed cams, and who knows what else....They should have a spec class that "You" build it and "you" race it.....
I would love to own a Cobra replica because I know I'll never own an original. I've seen an original 289 Cobra but never been lucky enough to see an original one with the 427 in it. You can always tell a Cobra replica right off because they are just too good where the originals were rough and the paint wasn't shinny.
Yeah right away my dad couldn't hide he's love for motorcycles and sports cars,he was a great driver of sports cars,but didn't want me to race anything I said okay till I couldn't take it any longer and was 18 so I went RACING...he stopped telling no at that point....
Jay is a real person, with real guests and real cars - I don't believe it gets any better than that - I appreciate Jay doing this Book Club (I have since bought 1 book thus far) -"Thank you"
Hey j got your ears on...i have a friend who has a friend a work who hought one of the only three ac comp cobras ever built that were never painted ..as i saw car is raw aluminum inside under over and out no paint...if you want it ..it will take your deep pockets to buy it ..as the owner's hobby is buying and then flipping exotic cars ..and may have sold it by now as the heritage and the rarity of such priceless value of such history means nothing to this guy who could care less other than his adiction to being a high roller used car salesman
Lack of sponsors made it better for the fans back then. You could actually see the type of car (or motorbike) that it was. The winner was handed his trophy, kissed the girl and said thank you. None of this, I would like to thank ........(insert 15 product names here.)
No mention of Andre Capella who built all the 427 Cobras, the 1st 6 by himself then hired 4 guys to build all the rest, 350 total. Also a race driver, that's why Shelby hired him. Too bad Leno didn't get the real story!!
Thanks for sharing this with us, and having read the book, it really does read like a conversation instead of a long boredom. ........I see there are 20 illiterates who disliked this XD
I got a tip JAY ur the greatest,but u need a red sweater and ur slippers when u do this segment,even a pipe and u will get more English fans,with the pipe,I mean..Jay neighborhood....
I am also a fan of Shelby. Jay should do what he likes the best now that he's been released from that Liberal prison NBC (stands for No Body Cares)...Velocity would be a great choice. Anywhere he goes, his presence will improve the one he chooses
It's so hard to compare earlier times with today. Sure $300 sounds cheap today, but what was that worth back then and what did it get you back then. Gets you a half decent helmet today. But where it really really changes, is in the safety of what those guys drove back then, not to mention the safety at the tracks these days, to what they had 'back in the day'. I think it is very unfair, to both generations, comparing sports people. Just my thoughts. I just wish I had followed my dream and got into auto racing. Oh well another should have...
Named the dog Shelby, tried to name our son Carol or Shelby but that was a no go. Love the stuff Shelby turned out in his lifetime. Not bad for a chicken farmer. Congrats on retiring Jay, never watched the tonight show. But I always catch your youtube show!
I am fortunate enough to have the 2013 Shelby GT350. I ordered the car before Carol passed away. I will never sell the car. I'll leave that up to my heirs. But the car will be modified with a roll cage and better racing seats, to keep me from sliding around, in the seat. The engine has been maxed out horsepower wise. Without hurting any reliability. And that's only 700 hp According to the speed shop. At Shelby American. I don't think the brand will ever be the same. Now they Carol has passed.
You're a lucky guy but at the same time I think that value was killed by modifying it ... If you wanted to mess with something I would have gotten an older Mustang GT and left the GT350 alone. Your car and your choice though. To each their own. If I had 50 grand to spend, which is just a guess for how much it was, I would get an older one. They're a million times cooler anyways.
Ford USA are a little too conservative when it comes to chassis and suspension. Ford Australia will cease local production in 2016, but for over a decade, the standard Australian Ford sedan, the Falcon has better suspension than the current Mustang. 4 wheel independent suspension, traction control, stability assist, better brakes, and a turbocharged 6 cylinder that is up to a second quicker over the quarter mile than a stock Coyote V8. Rigid axles were made obsolete on all but commercial vehicles over a decade ago, yet there it is on the Mustang.
TheGoldenSaber. You're right. I am extremely fortunate. But it's kind of a trade-off. Had I not broken my neck and sued the people responsible. I would not have nice things. And on the opposite side of the coin. I would take being homeless and walking around. I appreciate your opinion. I would never terrapin matching numbers classic car. I have a 1969 GT500. That car will never be modified. But the new Shelby was built for open track days. And that's what it's going to be used for. I will be posting videos of the roll cage being installed. And then, a very trick seat that will be adapted for my 1970 Hemi Challenger R/T. You will have to see it work to understand it. But this will eliminate any need for lifting me in and out of the cars. My chassis builder worked in NASCAR for 20 years as a fabricator for Red Bull Racing. And he has a daughter who has down syndrome. So is very familiar with wheelchairs. And he's a great problem solver. He has been working on my 1970 pro-touring Superbee for a year now. All it needs is paint and interior. Then it will be done. That is going to be something else. Hot Rods by Dean is the name of the shop where the work is being done.
Scott Hill I apologize for judging, I had no idea. That really sucks that your neck was broken, but at least your making lemonade out of lemons lol. It would almost seem hard to be in a bad mood around all of those amazing cars. I completely understand you modifying the new one now, being that you have a lot of cool better ones. I'm subbing to you and keep up the good work.
I just read this book over the holiday's. It's a great read. Love this period in auto racing history and he captures it well. Thank you Mr. Morton for making the effort to share your experiences from this time with the rest of us!
That cobra in the background is absolutely stunning!!
The beautiful blue paint job, and the side exhaust flares and headlights and chrome and just the whole look of the car is so Drop Dead Gorgeous I would do anything to own one..
Anything?
I jumped into this book yesterday and can't put it down. Having met John Morton last fall at a BBQ for BRE enthusiast was a major event for me. He's a true gentleman and an American Racing Hero!
Three of my dream cars in the background.
You have some good taste
that ford gt is reson I became a young car enthusiast
Yeah me too, wish I could have met Carroll Shelby.
This is COOL. "Jay's Book Club" and J"ay's Garage"
Really a great source of input for my life long interest in fast stuff on wheels.
Thank You Jay Leno.
Your Online Show is terrific. Really. Your features are always interesting, with great looks at stuff i'll never get to see anywhere else.
I really hope you don't get tired of doing it.
Imagine, you may be becoming a big King Of Cars. Grin ?
"John Morton" picked me up at the slot car track one night and drove me home. It was 1964 or 65. I was 15 and loved racing.
So instead driving straight home we drove fast around and around my block. He made it a race track.
He had a Ford Galaxie. It was raining, and dark, but with good street lights and parked cars all over the place.
Oh man that fun was big. The ride of my life.
Thanks John. All these years haven't fogged that thrill...
I never had a better time in my life. Remember that John?
Inches from embarrassment, we drifted in power slides that only people like you can do. I have to figure out how to say hello. I'm from years past..
Long time no see John. I"m Ole's kid, Mike.
I enjoyed watching your success through the years. Hope you see this comment. Gonna order your book now.
We could talk about a lot of the old days... thanks Jay
Jay... I don't even like cars that much, but I love watching any shows you're involved with...
Thank You!
Jay needs to take over Top Gear America right now!
fuck top gear! not sure about the american edition.. but the original ones (the british) r just a group of stupids! (and i'm being polite)
Chris Saddler Sam It's no secret that the british Top Gear is a circus with cars and is hosted by 3 clowns. The show is silly, because that's the whole idea/concept behind it. It never tries to be serious, instead it attempts to get us to smile. And guess what, it works. You don't have to like it, but so many people love it, your opinion is simply irrelevant.
P.S.: The american copy is just a bad copy. Watchable, but it does not go to the same extremes. Probably due to the lack in funds.
I signed off with top gear after hearing Jeremy trash talk the U.S. automobiles and specifically the people a few times. You want to talk cars fine and your entitled to you opinion but to broadcast your snide remark’s on TV is wrong.
The episode that really did it for me was when they were on a road trip through Alabama and wrote insulting things on their cars. They got the response they asked for and got run out of town then talked trash. I’m sure if anyone were to talk trash and insult the locals in Liverpool it’d reap a similar response.
It was just deserved.
They started sh*t, ran like cowards and instead of giving a deserved apology to Alabama they talked trash afterwards.
A real demonstration of how you can have money and have Low class.
I hope their show tanks.
Great videos, Jay. Love " The Garage" ...keep them coming!
This is a coffee table book & one that my coffee table needs. Thx I will be buying.
I love that beautiful blue Cobra in the background!
I raced in England when I was 19 and 20 years of age back in the late 1960s. Even at the club racing level there was plenty of competition but it was at least affordable and possible to be competitive to the extent of not running at the back every time! Winning of course was a foregone conclusion since many factory-sponsored drivers and cars were often mixed in with us amateur club guys. I can claim I once raced against Jack Sears in my Mini 998cc against Sears in his Ford Galaxy with one million cc - well put it this way, I saw him at the start on the grid, then never saw him again throughout the race! I cannot imagine being able to afford racing today though!
Great visit, Jay! I was outside the hangar where the Shelby team was headquartered the year that Ken Miles pranged the 427 Cobra, looking in. There, to my amazement, was Ken Miles, the team leader, welding that broken car with his driving gloves on. He had given orders not to break the cars: "If you break it, you fix it!" True to his word, he fixed it as best he could. Of course, the frame was really badly bent. I don't think they really ever got the alignment totally sorted out. As I recall, and it was a long time ago, the tree he hit was between the Esses and the Hairpin. How he lost it there is a mystery. But John Morton's book will be great fun to read! Thanks, Jay!
Oh yes those were the days. Never had money for any car to speak of but had a Rambler. Eventually went to work for AMC dealer and then on to a Lincoln Mercury dealer where the high point of my involvement with cars was checking in and servicing as well as test driving new Panteras. That was as close as I ever got to cars. I later went to motorcycle racing and was racing them on one side of Albuquerque while Al Unser Jr was racing go karts on the west side. Fun days!!!
Also raced bikes with a young man by the name of Dave Campos who set a Land Speed record for Harley Davidson in 1990 of 322 MPH at Bonneville. Nice Guy.
Mike
PS I like this GIG Jay !!!! Keep it up.
Look at that Cobra!
Jay, Thanks for the video and thanks for this Channel, you cover a lot of different cars and motorcycles, very interesting.
The only thing I got out of you "retiring" from the Tonight Show is an extra hour of sleep before work. Won't be the same Jay.
Thanks again for your channel.
l think back then the lack of sponsers allowed you to do what you wanted , but now its all about selling a product, the winner has to change his hat 4 times while on the winners circle, kinda deminishes the drivers personality,,,
And makes for horrible situations like Dan Wheldon's, where his last words shilling for his sponsors.
Yeah for sure. Even if the driver was able to get a win with a total crap car they would still have to say “ I need to thank this Budweiser, Castrol, Target, M&M, Ajax, Goodyear tire, Red Lobster, Toyota Preius team for giving me such a great car today”
I miss the days when my older brother would take me to the races at Riverside and Ontario.
Those were great days.
Never heard of that 4 cam GT40! Love this stuff. Time to google. Thank you Mr. Leno.
back when sitting behind a 427 with two four barrels...made your eyes water
Jay now that you're done with Late night TV. I'm thinking a weekend, hour long car show is your next calling. Many of us (if not all of your subscribers) would loyally watch. A 10 minute product corner with a 10 minute book club.....thing. Plus a special guest (car) review. Combine all three videos that your RUclips channel puts up in some combination. to make a weekly show please. It's really only your youtube channel and Top Gear UK that I find entertaining in any way shape or form. You could fill a major hole if you do it right.
See that search field on top of your sceen? Type "petrolicious" into it.
Love your videos jay ! Such interesting people ! Keep up the great work !
These videos are sooo coool. Saw all of them. Thank you Mr Leno.
Can't stand Jay on TV but he's so genuine talking about cars
shelby cobra has been my favorite car since the first time i saw it. i believe that was in the movie with Elvis. what a piece of automotive history.Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
I wonder if Jay will devote more of his free time to making these videos. I'd like to see something new that he hasn't had a chance to do before. Perhaps broadcast quick shows from the garage like if it were the tonight show, but with cars!
A good pal had a coffee table book on Shelby, read as much as I could, two years later, I wound up working on the last year of production in Whittier Ca.
Shelby/Dodge Dakota program. What fun, and work too!
I loved Jays show,,, but This is what you were made for Jay. This is great!
Jay may retire from talk show but he will never retire from his garage.
Thanks Jay. I truly appreciate you sharing your hobby with us gearheads.
Jay, Now that you have more time on your hands, I hope you crank out a few more of these. I love the feeling I get from these videos that you're just another car geek, just as excited by the cars as I am. How about another update on the Daimler Dart? Thanks.
I really liked the video , as I am a Ford guy. I own 2 mustangs , 1 old and 1 new. It's great to still see Jay , as I will miss not seeing him on the tonight show .
Host more of this kind of stuff. Very interesting. Thanks to John also.
Recently read this book. It's excellent.
my dad remembers when shelby was basically throwing parts out of his shop. just to make room. he regrets not keeping any of it. no one had a clue it would go up in value.
On my list of functional stainless steel models/art to build! Gonna have to get this book for sure! Doing a rail dragster now.
Keep the car videos coming Jay!
Great video could listen to him for hours.
Yeah Jay does a great job,he loves this stuff and it shows,I never knew he was into cars till he told that crazy story on the tonight show about when motorbike broke down his stock went way up with me and my love of cars,oh yeah the one other time was at the antique races at Laguna Seca talking about the cheetah it rolls it explodes...first time I heard that...hilarious too especially when ur standing there with the guy who spent 30 years of his life perfecting that motor...
subscribed right after watching I didint think about Jay haveing a channel. I love hearing about that era also. The story of owner/operater with no financial help, but a bunch of hot rodders from southern cali, take on the huge manufactuers from europe. I would love to read about that from a first hand perspective.
Great video, brings back the old days.
Jay, your best clip yet, period.
I got a tour of Shelby American back in 65 or 66, they were turning out GT350's when I was there. My brother worked for the nickel cadmium battery division at G.E. and they were talking to Shelby about doing a total loss ignition system on race cars with nicad batteries. I don't think it ever happened.
Thanks Jay ! Enjoyed it as usual :)
Great stuff. The Leno Series series should be turned into a 1 hr weekly TV show on the Discovery Channel.
Thanks Jay and John. :)
What a nice man! Love the Corvettes @ 7.00
Simply, Loved this!!
Shelbe is one of the amazeing cars, it is holding a graet place in cars hestory
I love the CARS the seeing cars and the things you learn about the car that you wouldn't at say a museum.
Man did I enjoy this !
Love this book! Thanks Jay
NICE!!! I had to stop the vid 3 times to google image the scarab, 904, and 904 engine but what a cool time it must have been when you could build a car without GPS, Traction Control, ABS, Data accusition, Carbon fiber, fuel injection, variable timed cams, and who knows what else....They should have a spec class that "You" build it and "you" race it.....
great interview ! you should invite him again to tell some real life stories ...
Still a brilliant driver
Very cool. I would like to check that book out.
just reading this book
Such a cool history lesson
Carol Shelby is from my hometown, Pittsburg, TX
Thanks J !!! You are a Real Cool Kat!!!!
Nice interview. History Motor Sports. Super Read.
great episode!
Nice vid Jay! Thanks!
"...from Tide to Kotex..."
Hahahahaha!!!
great cars white blue and red.my kinda shed for shelby
I would love to own a Cobra replica because I know I'll never own an original. I've seen an original 289 Cobra but never been lucky enough to see an original one with the 427 in it. You can always tell a Cobra replica right off because they are just too good where the originals were rough and the paint wasn't shinny.
hey jay any chance you will be doing a up close detail of your cobra can i ask i am a shelby fan ?
Yeah right away my dad couldn't hide he's love for motorcycles and sports cars,he was a great driver of sports cars,but didn't want me to race anything I said okay till I couldn't take it any longer and was 18 so I went RACING...he stopped telling no at that point....
I knew a guy who had a chevy powered Ferrari in the 60s. There wasn't room for the windshield wiper motor.
Jay is a real person, with real guests and real cars - I don't believe it gets any better than that - I appreciate Jay doing this Book Club (I have since bought 1 book thus far) -"Thank you"
GT40 and AC Ace of the most beautiful English cars ever.
"Wel'm'nother episode of Jay Leno's Garage..."
Hey j got your ears on...i have a friend who has a friend a work who hought one of the only three ac comp cobras ever built that were never painted ..as i saw car is raw aluminum inside under over and out no paint...if you want it ..it will take your deep pockets to buy it ..as the owner's hobby is buying and then flipping exotic cars ..and may have sold it by now as the heritage and the rarity of such priceless value of such history means nothing to this guy who could care less other than his adiction to being a high roller used car salesman
Come on Jay let someone else get that first comment, haha. Love all the garage videos.
a very interesting story thanks
I use to own #2128 now at The Miller Motorsports Park, Utah, What's the history on the blue and white Cobra in the background?
Lack of sponsors made it better for the fans back then. You could actually see the type of car (or motorbike) that it was. The winner was handed his trophy, kissed the girl and said thank you. None of this, I would like to thank ........(insert 15 product names here.)
No mention of Andre Capella who built all the 427 Cobras, the 1st 6 by himself then hired 4 guys to build all the rest, 350 total. Also a race driver, that's why Shelby hired him. Too bad Leno didn't get the real story!!
Thanks for sharing this with us, and having read the book, it really does read like a conversation instead of a long boredom.
........I see there are 20 illiterates who disliked this XD
I got a tip JAY ur the greatest,but u need a red sweater and ur slippers when u do this segment,even a pipe and u will get more English fans,with the pipe,I mean..Jay neighborhood....
Good job Jay!
I am also a fan of Shelby. Jay should do what he likes the best now that he's been released from that Liberal prison NBC (stands for No Body Cares)...Velocity would be a great choice. Anywhere he goes, his presence will improve the one he chooses
Jay should interview Bill Cosby about the Shelby Cobra
I think Cosby told that story on one of the talk shows.....don't remember if it was Mr Leno or not......too lazy to look it up
Definitely better to have been young back then.
Awesome book Jay!
It's so hard to compare earlier times with today. Sure $300 sounds cheap today, but what was that worth back then and what did it get you back then. Gets you a half decent helmet today. But where it really really changes, is in the safety of what those guys drove back then, not to mention the safety at the tracks these days, to what they had 'back in the day'. I think it is very unfair, to both generations, comparing sports people. Just my thoughts. I just wish I had followed my dream and got into auto racing. Oh well another should have...
I wonder, if you live here in L.A. why do you post videos so late? Just wondering, don't want people trying to argue with me.
WOW!!
Named the dog Shelby, tried to name our son Carol or Shelby but that was a no go. Love the stuff Shelby turned out in his lifetime. Not bad for a chicken farmer. Congrats on retiring Jay, never watched the tonight show. But I always catch your youtube show!
i have been to the plant in las vegas
JAY DO A WEEKEND Entertainment Special!
Such a strange way to arrange a sentence.
SikMisfits enough to comment on? now that is stranger
StylinRed
No.
I enjoyed it Jay
Available for $20 on Amazon.
racing was looked at as fun. not big bizz..
I am fortunate enough to have the 2013 Shelby GT350. I ordered the car before Carol passed away. I will never sell the car. I'll leave that up to my heirs. But the car will be modified with a roll cage and better racing seats, to keep me from sliding around, in the seat. The engine has been maxed out horsepower wise. Without hurting any reliability. And that's only 700 hp According to the speed shop. At Shelby American. I don't think the brand will ever be the same. Now they Carol has passed.
You're a lucky guy but at the same time I think that value was killed by modifying it ... If you wanted to mess with something I would have gotten an older Mustang GT and left the GT350 alone. Your car and your choice though. To each their own. If I had 50 grand to spend, which is just a guess for how much it was, I would get an older one. They're a million times cooler anyways.
Ford USA are a little too conservative when it comes to chassis and suspension. Ford Australia will cease local production in 2016, but for over a decade, the standard Australian Ford sedan, the Falcon has better suspension than the current Mustang. 4 wheel independent suspension, traction control, stability assist, better brakes, and a turbocharged 6 cylinder that is up to a second quicker over the quarter mile than a stock Coyote V8. Rigid axles were made obsolete on all but commercial vehicles over a decade ago, yet there it is on the Mustang.
***** The 2013 GT350's go for around 90k if that's what you're talking about
TheGoldenSaber. You're right. I am extremely fortunate. But it's kind of a trade-off. Had I not broken my neck and sued the people responsible. I would not have nice things. And on the opposite side of the coin. I would take being homeless and walking around. I appreciate your opinion. I would never terrapin matching numbers classic car.
I have a 1969 GT500. That car will never be modified. But the new Shelby was built for open track days. And that's what it's going to be used for. I will be posting videos of the roll cage being installed. And then, a very trick seat that will be adapted for my 1970 Hemi Challenger R/T. You will have to see it work to understand it. But this will eliminate any need for lifting me in and out of the cars. My chassis builder worked in NASCAR for 20 years as a fabricator for Red Bull Racing. And he has a daughter who has down syndrome. So is very familiar with wheelchairs. And he's a great problem solver. He has been working on my 1970 pro-touring Superbee for a year now. All it needs is paint and interior. Then it will be done. That is going to be something else. Hot Rods by Dean is the name of the shop where the work is being done.
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I apologize for judging, I had no idea. That really sucks that your neck was broken, but at least your making lemonade out of lemons lol. It would almost seem hard to be in a bad mood around all of those amazing cars. I completely understand you modifying the new one now, being that you have a lot of cool better ones. I'm subbing to you and keep up the good work.
Who were the kids that died when one of the cobras crashed into them at lemans.
Nice video...
Cool
Ford needs to bring back the Cobra like they did with the Ford GT.
If you ever read anything about Jay. He doesn't have to hustle for money. He is very frugal.
And i don't even know the guy from televison.