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The Shelby GT 500 car was offered in two body styles - 2door fastback and 2-door convertible. The assembly plant of this car was established at Dearborn, Michigan in USA. The Shelby GT 500 was offered with two engine types. One of them was a 390 cid engine and the other was a 428 cid V8 engine. This vehicle was designed and offered in 1967. Now, the latest generation Shelby GT 500: the Eleanor, is all set for release - discover more!

The transmission system provided in the vehicle included 3-speed automatic or 4-speed manual system. This car is known as Eleanor in some of the international markets. The car was equipped with a 2 Holley 4 barrel carbs, 428 Police Interceptor as well as optional header features.

In 1968, Shelby Company offered the Shelby Mustang GT500 model, which was equipped with 428 cubic inch Police Interceptor engine. During the same year, the company launched another model named GT500KR, during the month of February.

This model was known as the "King of the Road". This vehicle was equipped with a 428 cubic inch Cobra Jet V8 engine. The same engine was used in the Shelby Cobra car models, which were predecessor of Shelby GT 500 cars.

The GT 500 KR model could generate 335 hp of power. In 1968, the company had also designed certain GT500 models with 390 cubic inch V8 engine. The wheelbase of GT500 model was about 108 inches in size, whereas the length of this vehicle was about 187.4 inches. The length of the 1969-70 Shelby GT500 models was increased up to extra 4 inches, and they were also given minor face lift too.

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Steel & Chrome Parade, a Poem, by Peter Menkin

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Steel & Chrome Parade
a poem by Peter Menkin

The parade of town & county people

and painted cars with chrome

tailpipes was a glee on old Grant

street--miles long parade.

A testimony to American

history, 55 Chevy Station Wagon

with red back lights

like a jet plane nose.

Sculpted Shelby Cobra,

a coveted car from Hollywood

amidst the rolling thunder

patrolled by local police

in their late model fast pursuit

vehicles, complete with air scoops.

The girls sit close to the guys

on the bench seats, though

a Ford Mustang (worth $20,000)

has buckets--edge thigh to thigh,

hers against the stick shift.

A tuneful race of piston sounds,

clouds of dark exhaust after

sunset to crowds who stand, sit,

call out and gawk at industrial

promises and the freedom that

auto brings. Sex, steel, paint

is a hot combination on a June

evening, for county excitement.

Mating calls to drag and thump,

teenage postures, and adult

moments with some families attuned

to their social position in a

maroon 48 Plymouth coupe. What

now, a festive undertaking

like a community dance in thunder

and success. Glory, excitement!

Summertime summertime stars a

song of parade in car colors

brought out for show and bravado.

A cultural dance on wheels into

the night, and tomorrow, too

on the regular roads and driveways.

This is an endless parade

of favored and polished pets;

even the Chevrolet 409,

will ride around seeking

a Woody Wagon or something sleek.

We have met the 21st Century

and it is still us, again, on parade.

Audio reading of the poem is here, read by the writer, aspiring poet Peter Menkin:

http://www.archive.org/details/ChromeAndSteelParade2000ByPeterMenkin

This poem from 2000 recently posted on the Academy of American Poets writers workshop received few comments, I am sorry to say. But I like the work, and here it is from its almost original version eight years ago when the car parade took place in Novato, California (Marin County), north of San Francisco.

This note to a fellow poet was posted on the writers workshop by me:

I had an idea that not everyone knows about car parades. This one was held in Novato, California (about 45,000), and there people fix up older and even old cars. They are stunning! So many people line the street for this popular event, it is like a town fair.

Novato is in Marin County, north of San Francisco by about 30 or so miles. I believe they hold the parade yearly. That year I did go to the car parade, and I was impressed by it and remembered there is in America such a thing as "car culture." So the poem.

Notes on photograph: The Reverend Richard Helmer, Rector of Church of Our Saviour, Mill Valley, California USA took this snapshot and gave permission to use it on my blog. The blog is mainly spiritual and religious poetry, and though the poem posted today is about Chrome & Steel Parade, I thought Father Richard's snapshot a good choice since it shows flowers and has chrome. Readers of this blog will have noted that most photographs accompanying the poetry shows a flower or flowers.

So here is another flower shot, location of snapshot unknown.

As a P.S., Peter Menkin attends Church of Our Saviour, Mill Valley, California USA, located in Marin County, north of San Francisco. By the way, the man at the piano also illustrating the poem shows The Reverend Richard Helmer at work. The title is "Richard at Piano."

"Prokofiev: Sonata No. 3 in a, Op. 28
Liszt: La Campanella
Chopin: Etudes Op. 10, Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 5; Polonaise in A-flat, Op. 53, Prelude in G
Debussy: Estampes"

About the Author

Peter Menkin, an aspiring poet, lives in Mill Valley, CA USA (north of San Francisco).

My blog:
http://www.petermenkin.blogspot.com

I was wondering can you put a 429 cobra jet into my 1970 ford torino gt?

And how much horses you think i'll get out of it, i have a 351 C in it right now?

yes the 429 will bolt right in with new motor mounts for a 429, theres plenty of room in your engine bay and the 429 had 375 horse.

Scenes from the blaze: Sighs of relief and providing an all-night watch
WHITE CITY — A plain-looking wooden shed containing a collection of Ford auto parts from the 1960s and 1970s fell prey to flames from the nearby Davis Finish Products fire that jumped across 11th Street.

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