1965 |
First GT350 to entertain Bill Collins |
That's me, Bill, sitting in brand new 1966 GT350, SFM6S101, in the same
showroom that November. At 16 years old, I was a bit young to buy one new,
but the enthusiasm was definitely there! I had just seen the Film Red Line
7000, in which one of the principal characters, a race car driver played by
James Caan, has a new '65 GT350 as his daily transportation. In a night
sequence filmed at the old Ascot Raceway in LA, the Shelby (SFM5010) is run
hard, drifting through the turns and finally spinning out. I was hooked ! I
had to have one of these cars, and now I was actually sitting in one! |