Buck,
Why did they want the tub of the shelby car destroyed? Was the shelby car in
an accident at some point ( i think i remember hearing that)
On 1 November 2010 13:08, Buck Trippel <BuckTrippel@verizon.net> wrote:
> It's an interesting story but part of it is not true - at least according
> to Lew Spencer himself.
>
> A year ago last June at the Wine Country Classic vintage race, Lew Spencer
> stopped by and visited for an hour or so in our Tiger pits. There he was
> asked which Tigers he had raced. Lew said he had only raced one Tiger - the
> yellow Shelby Tiger which carried his racing number, 45.
>
> Lew was a car salesman and might have sold the Tiger Dick Guldstrand later
> worked on. Lew doesn't remember doing so but "might have".
>
> And the Tiger Dick worked on was not the Shelby Tiger. After Lew had raced
> the yellow Shelby Tiger for 6 months, Rootes transferred it from Shelby
> American to Sports Car Forum in Columbus, Ohio. Their main driver, Don
> Sesslar, had already clinched Rootes another SCCA National Championship in
> an Alpine. After three more races in late 1964 the Tiger was stripped and
> rebuilt into a new Tiger tub and driven by Don in the 1965 season. He
> accrued almost as many national points as all the other Tigers combined.
> This car carried the hood, doors, custom windscreen, trunk lid, entire drive
> train and cross member from the Shelby car. At Rootes written insistence,
> the tub of the Shelby Tiger was destroyed.
>
> Buck Trippel
>
>
>
> According to the author the car was
>> originally owned and raced by Lew Spencer of Shelby fame. Lew sold it to
>> Art Fimes who took the car to Dick Guldstrand (of Corvette racing fame) to
>> develop it further for racing. The Tiger had a long SCCA race history
>> from
>> 1965 - 1981. There is a TRACO dyno sheet from 1974 for a race 260 that
>> made
>> what looks like 311HP @ 5000rpm. That is probably without the LAT options
>> since SCCA didn't allow it back then
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
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