The Roaring Season

Hi gang sad day one of world,s true car GURU,S A true nut and bolt man Rip Jamie A

A tribute on Velocetoday.com
http://www.velocetoday.com/carroll-shelby-and-the-osca/

Received pic in an email so source unknown.....

Cool pic then and even cooler now...
RIP

Ellis wrote:Received pic in an email so source unknown.....

Cool pic then and even cooler now...
RIP

Only one missing is the great Ken Miles, now wouldn't that look good!!

Dale M

The legendary auto racer and car designer Carroll Shelby is being recognized in a special show by the EyesOn Design group. That's the good news. In the meantime, the body of the late automotive icon still waits to be laid to rest. I heard that his remains are a point of contention among factions in Shelby's own family. I have to buy a car as beautiful as something Shelby would make.

Sorry Guys missed this first time around ,was reminded about it by a friend on the weekend we both knew Sue all those years ago ,she gave me this link ,You will have to read down a bit ,but there is a bit about Sue's wedding on there

http://www.davemacdonald.net/gallery/closeups/kingcobranassautrophy.htm

David McKinney wrote:hat's about the right time for the Sue Stafford wedding, but I never realised it was so short-lived

Great article, thanks Bob

Great you bought this post up to speed Bob.

I had in the passed check this website but it has been up date since i did last!! always admired Dave MacDonald's achievements, he had fantastic driving talent but died so young in that horrific Indy car crash!! I always like the way his wife Sherry was always at the events with him in those days and is quite often in the pictures.

Towards the end of Graham Pierce's(Baypark Promotor) life(May 08 RIP) i use to stop by and chat with him quite often, he had an office at Rorison's yard(Aerodrome Rd, Mt Maunganui) been related to Ian Rorison(RIP) he told me about when Shelby came to NZ and raced at Ardmore, i remember Graham mentioning the Shelby marriage to Sue ??? as he said he knew her parents, remember him telling me they "were not amused" apparently they were Brits that had immigrate to NZ. Sounds like it was short lived affair anyway? wonder if she's still around? so i'd say they are quite rare pictures of her and him.

I got to meet Shelby several times in the last 10 years before he passed but he was generally quite elusive!! at SAAC 2005 held in Los Angeles once he was the guess speaker and he thanked all the Kiwi's and Aussies that came for this event and we got to talk to afterwards!! by pure chance i got to meet him a year later and speak with him at his Gardena shop, said he luv'd the NZ'ers and their number 8 wire ability which was very much needed back in those days of keeping race cars going!! never got to ask him about his NZ wife though, LOL

Im glad i was around and had the pleasure to meet(and he never sued me, LOL)

Dale M

I don't want to dilute this thread so Steve can delete this or move it but this was the main purpose of my friends email ,apparently this all came up for auction at Cordy's Auction

A historic collection of motor racing
trophies presented to Arnold stafford
including the rare 1975 Le Mans ‘Motor’
trophy awarded to the Gulf research
racing company (Gulf-Ford Gr8) for
first place. The four trophies include;
‘Motor, Le Mans Trophy 1975 Replica’,
the gilt metal hipocamp on a sloping
mahogany base, the back plaque
engraved ‘1975 Gulf Research Racing company (Gulf-Ford Gr8) . First At
119.01 M.P.H. Drivers: Derek Bell, Jacky
Ickx’; secondly a silver plate tankard
awarded to Arnold Stafford engraved
‘Exeter Trial Jan. 1939 A. Stafford Solo’;
thirdly a silver plate tankard engraved
‘A. Stafford. Dunlop, South Africa 1935.
thanks For Assistance in starting up
durban Factory’ and a pewter cigarette dispenser trophy engraved ‘One
Hour High Speed Trial Brooklands 1936
A. Stafford Solo, Speed 71.97 M.P.H.’.
note: Arnold stafford was one of a pair
of British expatriates that played a major role in introducing ‘500’ racing cars
to n.Z. in the early 1950s. After retiring
from race driving he became involved
as a racing mechanic in Formula one
and later as part of the management
team for the John Wyer Ford team.
Arnold retired to the Lake Taupo area
and passed away in 1997 aged 82.
Provenance: This collection of four
trophies come from an estate sale of
his wife’s effects. See page 10. $1600

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