SAAC Group MD Members Cars

1965 Shelby GT350
I first saw this car when I was delivering another one of my cars
to a restoration shop in 2001. This GT350 was sitting under a
lean-to. It was dirty, rusty and dented. A previous owner had
installed a pony interior and back seat. The car had clearly been
"ridden hard and put away wet" over the 70,000+ miles showing
on the odometer. As the restoration on my other car progressed,
I would occasionally inquire about the forlorn-looking GT350. In
time, the GT350 took on a runt-of-the-litter appeal to me.

When my other restoration project was completed, the
restoration shop owner, who owned the GT350, offered to sell
the car to me if I would agree to have the restoration performed by
his shop. A deal was struck, and a full rotisserie restoration
commenced in 2004. After 3 years of effort and countless phone
calls across the country to accumulate NOS parts, the GT350
was returned to its former glory in 2007.



William Kenney • Annapolis, Maryland
	1965 Shelby GT350 I first saw this car when I was delivering another one of my cars to a restoration shop in 2001. This GT350 was sitting under a lean-to. It was dirty, rusty and dented. A previous owner had installed a pony interior and back seat. The car had clearly been "ridden hard and put away wet" over the 70,000+ miles showing on the odometer. As the restoration on my other car progressed, I would occasionally inquire about the forlorn-looking GT350. In time, the GT350 took on a runt-of-the-litter appeal to me. When my other restoration project was completed, the restoration shop owner, who owned the GT350, offered to sell the car to me if I would agree to have the restoration performed by his shop. A deal was struck, and a full rotisserie restoration commenced in 2004. After 3 years of effort and countless phone calls across the country to accumulate NOS parts, the GT350 was returned to its former glory in 2007.

1967 Shelby GT500 This 1967 GT500 was my first Shelby. For a number of years I had attended the car shows at Carlisle to educate myself and scout out a desirable collectible car. I had met a vendor at the Carlisle All Ford show who indicated that he expected to have about five 1967 Shelby's available for sale within a few months following the show. The car I eventually chose was an early production numbers-matching GT500 in a unique combination of Nightmist Blue with parchment interior. The car's history indicated that over its life it had been to both coasts, and one individual had owned it three times. Although the car was basically sound, it needed a thorough restoration to return it to as-new condition. It was shown for the first time at the 2007 Gene Latta Car Show, where it tied for First Place in its Judging Class.