Actually, the Shelby fund does not do the "street-kid/counselling thing".
They do the "terminally-ill, organ-donation thing".

Their fund helps financially assist children in need of organ and tissue donations to save their lives. They also help fund the systems that locate and transport matching donors and their tissue/organs.

Don't know if you are aware of it, but Shelby is like 82 years old now, and had his first heart transplant 3 decades ago. His heart condition is what took him out of the driver's seat in all those hot Cobras of the sixties.
He made a deal with his Creator, that if he got a heart and lived through the operation, that he would help others with the same problems because he basically watched a kid die in the bed beside him while waiting for an organ too. It moved him - obviously.

Here's a link to the website... you REALLY should at least read the opening page from Carrol himself. It tells the story in more detail.

I've known about it for years. to him for doing what he does.

 

Sorry, jumped into this thread without reading what was going on.

I still couldn't see dropping that kind of dough on a GT500 though, but I likely will never have $600,000 of disposable cash at any given time, unless inflation in the US goes crazy someday.

 

sarcasm radar broken, eh?

do a google search for "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"

 

Again, I still feel the same. For the car he got, that is insane. Yes it's neat because he gets to make history and help kids, but what happens if his garage roof collapses or any other number of potential damaging activities?

 

Guys, if he can drop 600K on the car (and hopefully more importantly for the Charity), then my guess is that he can go out and Pony-up (pun intended) for a new GT500.

 

what is really funny is there are still people in this thread that can't get over the fact that a GT500 was involved somehow, and can't seem to realize this was a donation for charity and NOT a purchase of a vehicle ... the car was just a very small part of it, the money going to support a children's charity is what should be focused on.



oh well, i'm sure someone else will post once more how its insane to pay that much money for a GT500.

 

i almost hate watching that anymore because it sickens me. 40,000 dollar cars are selling for 60-100k on many occasions. I go to the Auburn car auction by barret jackson every year and the prices keep rising and the book values stay the same. I believe the prices have been overinflated by these types of famous auctions with dirty rich people bidding. The good muscle cars are becoming unaffordable to the average person. Thats the sad part because muscle cars became famous by the average person who could buy a cool, fast, mass produced car for an affordable price. Now, only people who can new vettes can afford to buy nice muscle cars. I love looking at the cars, but in the past few years nice LS6 chevelles have gone from 30-40k to 40-50k. The 69 firebird convertible my dad bought 6 years ago for 7800 bucks is now worth 15k or so with only about 500 bucks invested cosmetically.

 

... thats the nature of the beast. they don't make them anymore, so their prices go up after a significant amount of time.


there are still thousands, hundreds of thousands of old muscle cars that are dirt cheap and need restoration. saying the average joe can't afford a fully restored show-stopping berret jackson automobile is absolutly correct, and for the most part it has always been that way.

 

OK - Roger that!

And no sarcasm whatsoever was intended back at you in my post.
I got the feeling that people reading this thread thought that the charity could have been anything from Katrina relief to PAC money. I still thought a clearing-up was prudent.


And finally, I think many (others) posting in this thread need to close your eyes and open your hearts. The car was only incidental to what took place Sunday.
Someone with lots of money helped a friend, and helped lots of kids who really needed it, and got a car to boot. EOS.

 

Let's for one moment ignore the fact that this WAS for charity, and assume that the bidding was just for the first production GT500. Now we all know that the mustang has one of the largest fanbases of any automobile out there, that mustang owners on average spend more money on their cars that the owners of other marques, and that this could be one of the most signifigant mustangs ever produced. Now does $600,000 seem like alot?