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If you are ever in Vegas and in the mood to see some cool mustang heritage you might consider stopping by the Carroll Shelby factory right next to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Once a week on Friday only they offer a special tour of the facility where you will see the AC Cobra production room, the Shelby assembly area, and Shelby museum. Then top it off with signing Carroll’s wall with your personal signature, All free of charge. For a mustang freak like me it was heaven.

The day we were there, feb 2008,  they were working on the vista blue Shelby GT conversions, and a couple black and red Barrett Jackson editions. They had the speedway grounds full of them, 100s of them as far as you could see. Unfortunately they wouldn’t allow any photography inside the plant but I snagged a few of the first production GT500 KR parked out front and some super snakes in the museum.  Sorry they were taken with an iPhone and there wasn’t much light. Enjoy!

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