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    Familiar Face at Barrett Jackson...

    If you were at the Blackstock Ford Show'N Shine last year, you may remember this special guest. It will be making an appearance at Barrett Jackson on Saturday. How much do you think it will command...?




    https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Even...ACE-CAR-224674

    https://sway.office.com/X9LC24IkAIoMQVE9 - video at bottom of link

    1966 Shelby Mustang GT350 SCCA B-Production Racing Car

    Yale Kneeland, a recent graduate of Yale University. was hanging out at an Irish
    bar in midtown Manhattan. While playing darts for blood with a wild and crazy Irish
    mechanic named Jimmy Carter direct from the old sold, their conversation drifted
    into racing cars. Being a gearhead from birth, Yale expressed interest, so off they
    went to check out a Lotus 7 being prepared by the Irishman.

    Intent on getting more involved, Kneeland was invited to attend an SCCA race at
    Lime Rock the following weekend. Little did Kneeland know that the Irishman was
    also trackside support for a guy named Mark Donahue racing a Lotus 20B.

    Soon discovering that Donahue was a recent graduate of Brown University, the Ivy
    League connection clicked. Donahue, from Central New Jersey. and Kneeland, with
    a country home near Morristown, then hooked up with a local racing team out of
    Dockery Ford. Dockery Ford Dockery had been active in sedan racing for some
    time. At the time of Kneeland's arrival, the racing team consisted of Donahue, Bob
    Grossman. Malcolm Star and Martin Krinner. This group was involved with Trans-
    Am, USRRC, and the SCCA Northeast Region. Entries included Shelby GT 350s and
    Cobras. Kneeland became the fifth member of the team.

    Midway through the season, Star went off to join the Marine Corps and, needing
    money, he sold his Shelby R-Model to Kneeland. This was the same car that
    Donahue raced in B/S in 1965. Kneeland and Donahue joined forces, with Donahue
    racing at the SCCA Nationals and Kneeland at the Regionals. . Later that season
    while running at Lime Rock, with his entire family trackside, Kneeland put the R-
    Model into a tree, putting the engine in the cab! His two sisters were so upset that
    they both went into the woods and threw up!! Fear not, race fans, this was just the
    beginning of Kneeland's career. Intent on continuing in the sport, Kneeland called
    upon a Shelby GT350 6S928 to till the R-Model void. They took #928 down to bare
    metal, totally gutting it. With help from Donahue's sponsors — Firestone, Ford.
    Holman-Moody. Koni, American Mag, AER, Croughn Auto Styling — the car came to
    life

    Holman-Moody and their NASCAR affiliates designed and installed in the B/P Sedan
    the very first SCCA legal full roll cage, American Mag designed deeper offset rear
    wheels, Koni came up with the first fully adjustable bounce and rebound shocks
    (for Donahue only). All usable parts from the R-Model were transferred to the
    6S928. Reconfiguring the structure of the car included relocating the suspension,
    extending the rear fenders, installing a transverse braking both inside the cab and
    under the car. Engines came through Donahue via the Holman-Moody Ford
    connection and Traco. Kneeland continued to race the 6S928 into the early 1970s.
    He campaigned the car at Bridgehampton, Thompson, Pocono, The Glen, Lime
    Rock, Dover and the like. He was successful in winning an SCCA Northeast B/P
    championship

    In 1999, the car found a new owner who began a full restoration in 2008 and has
    enjoyed the car enthusiastically, returning it to its 1967 Kneeland livery and fitted it
    with a correct B Production engine, featuring many original Shelby external and
    internal engine parts. It will surely prove to be a formidable vintage racing
    candidate for its next fortunate caretaker. As Motor Trend stated in one of its early
    road tests of the GT350, “We recommend it as a cure for all strains of boredom,” a
    statement that certainly applies to this example.

    Five years ago the 6S928 came back to His continent, and in the beginning of last
    year a plan to get an uplift was set in motion.
    The engine bay got original hardware and non period correct parts were removed.
    With long and intense research a historic file was put together and original car
    hood was recovered along with the quarter windows and its old Konis shocks
    The body was repainted on the Original paint and the racing stripes were painted
    as per Order of Operations by Shelby America.

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    very cool car with a good history and story - I think it will do well!

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    $175k perhaps? Not really sure.

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    Enjoyed seeing it in person at your show, x cool car.

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