Carroll Shelby Signature


Iconic GT

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Dec 30, 2017
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New Braunfels, Texas
Hello

is there any documentation of registery that may reflect how many 05-06 FGT cars Carroll may have signed? If not ok. If so, appreciate any info on this.

Also, what value could this add to any car?

Thanks
 

DakotaGT

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Carroll Shelby signed his name on so many cars (and other objects) that, while cool and all, it really doesn't add any value to the car at all. MAYBE on a car that he was more intimately involved in, such as his CSX Cobras, and his Shelby Series 1. Just my opinion. Certainly there is no registry for such a thing. He would sign your toothbrush for $200.
 

NorthwoodGT

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Jun 12, 2009
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I don't see why Carroll Shelby's signature would add anything to a GT other than the notoriety of it since he had nothing to do with the build or design with the GT. if it were on mine, I would immediately clean it off. you would get more sole to the car if it had Camiilo or Raj's signature. jmo
 

Specracer

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Not true, while the role may have been somewhat ceremonial, Mr Shelby consulted on the 05-06 GT. The current Shelby company still owns WH-1 that was given to him. Its available for sale, according to Mr Patterson when I asked him last June, for $2m.

http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/18/pf/autos/shelby/index.htm


I don't see why Carroll Shelby's signature would add anything to a GT other than the notoriety of it since he had nothing to do with the build or design with the GT.
 

NorthwoodGT

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consulted? oh, OK.
 

GTdrummer

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I once had a GT with so many Shelby signatures on it you could barely see the car.
 

twobjshelbys

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Jul 26, 2010
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The answer to the original post is that there is no "registry". If Carroll signed a part as part of the Shelby Foundation fundraising then there would be a Certificate Of Authenticity with that part. If it's just a signature that happened while he was out and about then there would be no documentation (but many of us have a photo of that event). Carroll would sign almost anything for the donation to the foundation (it was 300 for as long as I knew). I was at his warehouse where the foundation is housed in Gardena and it was full of stuff. He came in one day a week to sign. You can still send stuff in for an autopen signature.
 

NorthwoodGT

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I once had a GT with so many Shelby signatures on it you could barely see the car.
lol!
 

BIGFOOT

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Jan 18, 2012
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If you sent him a glove box door they sometimes got sent back with signature upside down.
You can’t make that sh!t up.
:)
 

Iconic GT

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Thanks guys..... and to the one comment... The car does have Camiilo 's signature as well.... Good Stuff!
 

THamonGT

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How many 05-06 Ford GT’s were signed on the dash by Carroll Shelby before he passed away? NOTE: Not in the engine compartment or exterior of the GT’s. My 06 was the last one he signed on the passenger side of the Dash and I have the picture of him doing it. He personally told me “ Yours is the last GT I will sign on the dash because i can’t get in these damn things anymore”. Let’s see how many!
 

mmlcobra

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May 25, 2013
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How many 05-06 Ford GT’s were signed on the dash by Carroll Shelby before he passed away? NOTE: Not in the engine compartment or exterior of the GT’s. My 06 was the last one he signed on the passenger side of the Dash and I have the picture of him doing it. He personally told me “ Yours is the last GT I will sign on the dash because i can’t get in these damn things anymore”. Let’s see how many!

Mine is signed on the dash with "Enjoy" above the sig.
 

2112

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I once had a GT with so many Shelby signatures on it you could barely see the car.

The blue GT.

I considered this car while it was for sale in Arizona before you bought it.

I couldn't get past the signatures.
 

GTdrummer

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The blue GT.

I considered this car while it was for sale in Arizona before you bought it.

I couldn't get past the signatures.


Yep Ron Pratte car. Possessed
 

franimal007

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Nov 1, 2018
237
Endwell, NY
I had a 67 Shelby GT350 that I had Mr. Shelby sign. It was at SAAC 1987. The signatures were just starting back then, everyone was asking him to sign the glove box door. When I saw him coming my way, I shook his hand and asked him to sign my HOOD, he said, "The hood?" I said "YES" and he said, "I would love to!" He said that I was the first person ever to ask for the outside of a car to be signed. I wanted it signed because I was proud to own a part of history, not for value. The sad part was that he moved so fast, that he did not give me time to scotch bright the stripe so I could clear it, and if faded away over time.
 

2112

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I had a 67 Shelby GT350 that I had Mr. Shelby sign. It was at SAAC 1987. The signatures were just starting back then, everyone was asking him to sign the glove box door. When I saw him coming my way, I shook his hand and asked him to sign my HOOD, he said, "The hood?" I said "YES" and he said, "I would love to!" He said that I was the first person ever to ask for the outside of a car to be signed. I wanted it signed because I was proud to own a part of history, not for value. The sad part was that he moved so fast, that he did not give me time to scotch bright the stripe so I could clear it, and if faded away over time.

What # was your GT350? I have #875

A '67 GT K-code is a RARE car!
 

franimal007

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Nov 1, 2018
237
Endwell, NY
Thank you on the 67.
1424, sadly I went back to school, 3/4 through I had to make a hard decision, I had to sell it. (I said to my friends, "I'll buy another one, but they shot up and never got one again). Anyway, they have come down now, but I rather have the Ford GT now. Although cannot rule one out again....
Thank you on the 67 comment! I have been thinking of selling to recoup some money from the Ford GT purchase. Hard car to put a value on because not many know of it. Its not perfect but it is nice.
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