WELCOME RICK MARKKO, EVENT MANAGER Welcome to our 18th Annual <strong>Ford</strong> Family Reunion at the <strong>Carlisle</strong> <strong>Ford</strong> <strong>Nationals</strong>, sponsored by Gumout Performance Products. This year is sure to be a bustle of activity. We’re helping Shelby American celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Cobra, Carroll Shelby’s iconic sports car that has been the talk of the industry since its inception 50 years ago. And it’s as strong as ever with the brand-new, just-released 1,000 horsepower (STREETABLE) modification for the GT500! Team Shelby Northeast has had a calendar full of activities this week to celebrate all things Shelby, culminating with a dinner Friday night and a lunch on Saturday for their club members. Along with the Shelby celebration, we’re featuring some of the timeless classics produced by <strong>Ford</strong> that started the whole performance craze back in the ’60s and led to the birth of the Mustang and the Shelby Cobra. The Lightweights, as they were referred to in performance circles, are joined by the vehicles that were born with 406 cubic inch engines with a tri-power induction system. And the line of 427-ci engines, led by the SOHC engine that rocked the performance world and ignited the high performance wars of the ’60s and early ’70s. Primarily designed for race applications in NASCAR and NHRA racing circles, they were venerable street machines and kicked a lot of Bowtie and Pentastar butt! And thus the never-ending quest for more power and speed led us to where we are today with the 1,000 horsepower Shelby. What a storied history from <strong>Ford</strong> and Shelby. Be sure to enjoy all the displays of these fine cars in the various buildings. Take some time to talk to the manufacturers and be sure to get “Up Close and Personal” with the all-stars of yesteryear who are here to talk “bench racing” with you. We mourn the recent loss of Carroll Shelby and are honoring his achievements with an engine rev at noon Saturday. Read more on page 16. KEITH MARTIN, PUBLISHER, AMERICAN CAR COLLECTOR The first time I met Carroll Shelby, he was autographing posters of himself at a Barrett-Jackson auction. Although the line of fans was long, Carroll took his time to chat with each person, and make everyone feel special. I felt like I knew him personally, even though I had only read about him in the pages of Road and Track and Car and Driver. During the late ’60s, before the Internet, the only way we could get detailed reports on the races in Europe was through enthusiast magazines. We put up with the twomonth lag, and in exchange got beautiful multi-page spreads, with exclusive photos and prose by experts. The epic story of how <strong>Ford</strong> beat Ferrari (most recently in Go Like Hell by A. J Baime, HMH publishing) was our automotive version of the Iliad and the Odyssey, mythic tales of young Americans who brashly took on the sophisticated Europeans. We matched their multi-cylinder alloy engines with our great lumps of cast iron – and at the end of 24 hours of racing at Le Mans, our American V8s came out victorious. This weekend, we celebrate <strong>Ford</strong> Motor Company and all of the great cars it has built over the years. I learned to drive in a 1965 Mustang that my grandmother bought new. My stepfather taught me how to drive a stick in a 1958 Mercury Monterey wagon he had converted to a floor-shift four-speed (don’t ask why, I couldn’t tell you). I recall that as it still had the very tall rear axle ratio that the car was equipped with as an automatic, getting started on the hills of San Francisco was challenging. If you love <strong>Ford</strong>s (and why else would you be here), I guarantee you’ll love American Car Collector, the magazine you’ve been waiting for. Each issue has features and profiles of cars that you need to know about, what they sold for and why. You’ll find a special introductory offer card in this directory, so mail it in today and become a part of the insider’s gang of car collectors. And maybe you’ll find that 1969 Grabber Orange Boss 302 — with a shaker hood — of your dreams. Contents 4-11 .............Schedule and Highlights 12 .........................Parade & Street Party 14 ........................ <strong>Ford</strong> Motor Company 16..............In Memory: Carroll Shelby 18 ................................................. Giveaways 20 ....................................Mach 1 Registry 22 ........................ The <strong>Ford</strong> Connection 26 ......................Invitational Building T 32 ................................................ Event Map 34 ............................................ Bloomsburg 36 ..................... Invitational Building Y 38 .....................Invitational Building G 42 ............................................ Concessions 44 ..................................... Partner Profiles 46 ......................................................Vendors 58 ..................................Personal Interest <strong>Carlisle</strong><strong>Events</strong>.com 2012 CARLISLE FORD NATIONALS PRESENTED BY GUMOUT PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS 3