This year, SAAC (Shelby American Automobile Club) celebrated its 25th year with an enormous five-day gathering of street and racing Shelbys at Connecticut\u2019s beautiful Lime Rock Park Raceway. The event, held from June 30 – July 3, included on-track racing and high-speed driving sessions, as well as a massive concours\/car show and numerous dinners and barbecues. In addition to the over 10,000 spectators taking in the 100s of Cobra\u2019s, GT350s, Tiger\u2019s and GT40s, there was also a virtual “Who\u2019s Who” of racing legends in attendance. Some of the influential names who took part in the nearly week-long festivities included: Carroll Shelby, Bob Bondurant, John Morton, Al Dowd, Lew Spencer, Chuck Cantwell, Leo Beebe, Ray Geddes, Tom Payne, Bob Johnson, Walt Hane and Dave Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This year, SAAC (Shelby American Automobile Club) celebrated its 25th year with an enormous five-day gathering of street and racing Shelbys at Connecticut\u2019s beautiful Lime Rock Park Raceway. The event, held from June 30 – July 3, included on-track racing and high-speed driving sessions, as well as a massive concours\/car show and numerous dinners and barbecues. In addition to the over 10,000 spectators taking in the 100s of Cobra\u2019s, GT350s, Tiger\u2019s and GT40s, there was also a virtual “Who\u2019s Who” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":814349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,13063],"tags":[432,15234],"class_list":["post-459301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-vintage-car-racing","tag-events","tag-events-vintage-racing"],"yoast_head":"\n