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Red convertible muscle car, front 3/4 view, showing hood scoops…

Two red convertible muscle cars are shown, one in the foreground with its top down and the other above it.

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1, ,2 Heres how the Belgium Shelby looked when Rick Parker arrived in Ft. Lauderdale. The body was repainted sometime in its past. This offorange is not the original shade of Competition Red. The top will obviously need some work. 16 MUSCLE CAR REVIEW JULY 2009 By Jerry Heasley helby Mustang enthusiasts knew ShelbyAmerican shipped a 70 GT. 350 convertible to Claude duBois, a dealer in Belgium, on February 18, 1970. Shelby Automobiles has records for every Shelby~American Cobra and Mustang ever built However, after more than 35 years, nobody knew the current owner's name or the whereabouts of the car with serial number 482548. Basi- cally, the hobby waited for someone to come forward and register" the vehicles Otherwise, the car was lost or crushed in Europe or perhaps an even more remote land. Rick Parker got a clue when his friend, Donnie Gould of Ft, Lauderdale, mentioned on the phone one day, I got that Paris Shelby convertible," Donnie did not actually track down this Shelby in Paris on his own Somebody else turned up the GI 350, repainted a funny orange color Id sure like to hear the story of how this car was

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