[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]This is Allan’s wife and yes, I would. And just for the record, his middle name isn’t “Richard” for nothing. He revels in his “Richardness” sometimes.[/quote]
Sorry, no offense to you, Ms. Allan Richard Fallbrook. I just HAD to inject my two cents here, lol!
@bearishgirl
Actually, I think that is a Eleanore/Helleanor, not a Shelby GT-500. Not as collectible as a GT-500, but a whole lot more fun and actually considerably faster. It also makes a GT-500 look pedestrian.
The Eleanore ‘concept’ was originally used on the movie gone in 60seconds, where Eleanore was supposed to be a Shelby GT-500(in the second version of the movie, the first one was a more pedestrian 73 fastback). You can buy an ‘Eleanore’, there is a company licensed to make ‘licensed Eleanore clones’ (correction, they are no longer making them – though Carrol Shelby is making a ‘continuation’ model GT-500C – which really doesn’t look like the movie Eleanore – Carroll Shelby got sued when he tried.)
NOTE: From my rememberence, the movie didn’t use a real GT-500. That is because real Shelby GT-500s don’t go for cheap and the life-span of movie cars is very short. The Dukes of Hazzard supposedly used up somewhere between 250 and 300 Dodge Chargers of 1968, 1969 vintage (now that is definitely a waste)
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