The Original Marketing Archives of the First Shelby Mustang GT-350 at Barrett Jackson!!

Do you know what that is Logan? Isn't it like a Hot Wheels? You're right! You'd trade me your hamburger for only 20 Hot Wheels? There's only 20 Hot Wheels Twin Bills. You'd rather keep your burger than that? Trade it! I can probably buy you like a thousand hamburgers. Yeah, probably. How about just for a bite? Dennis loves the best bite. You already bit out of it! Day one, Barrett-Jackson in Arizona. We've got Prashant Patel here, Sean P, and Mr. Dave Hall. I feel dizzy! We're going to roll over to RM which is at the Biltmore. Check that out real quick. Then we're going to head to Barrett and watch Richard sell two of his most expensive trucks he's ever built. So grab your cup of joe and let's go. The main reason we came over to RM today was to see the Gunther Works Porsche which is Prashant Patel's cousin. He knows everything about that car. I didn't read the auction catalog and I'm surprised to see this here. This is our old 1981 Corniche that we had with 2,953 miles that the top has never been put down. I believe it's the best example in the world. We sold this car on Bring a Trailer probably a year or two ago. Let's see how it does here. We know what it did there. Great to see it. I hate to name drop, but this car was in his garage at the last dinner party I was at. What do you know about it? Well, it's a 1995. It's basically brand new in the wrapper. 21 miles on it. Gunther Works. All carbon. I think the car speaks for itself. You actually drove this, didn't you? Yes, I did. How was it? Amazing. A little bit nerve-wracking, but definitely amazing. I thought this was one of the cars that was not going to leave your cousin's collection. What happened? Well, everything's for sale, right? I guess so. Tell us about the wheels real quick. Not only are they carbon fiber, but they are... These are full carbon barrel rims, as you can see. Now, on the Gunther Works, the front wheels and tire setups are the widest of any car that they make. If you look at the front over here... You can read that, Dennis? You'll never see that on a front tire. Look at the width. So we've got extreme contact sports. A 295-30 on the front. Wow! 295-30-18 on the front. You rarely even see that on the rear of a Porsche. That's right. It's a super wide front. What a beautiful car. So this is why we're here, but I'll tell you what. I was pleasantly surprised to see our old Corniche. What a fantastic car. So one of the biggest things in that car, Dave, when we sold it on Bring a Trainer, was I refused to put the top down. Because it had never been put down. Everybody was asking. It was a crazy amount of comments. But at the end of the day, I stuck to my guns. Why would you put a top down on a car that the top's never been put down? Because you'd probably have a problem. No, it actually worked. We did unlatch it and hit the buttons. That was not it. I had a guy from Rolls-Royce come to inspect the car. On a Jeep Wrangler, you can tell if a top's ever been off or not. So for warranty purposes, he's like, this top's never been put down. I said, how do you know that? Because only I or a tech would know that. Don't put it down. But if you walk over there and look at that top, it's just crazy amazing. This is incredibly cool, Pete. So what is your guesstimate on it? I think you should bring in the seven figures. A little above a million. A million and one. Can you get one now? It's a long waiting list, from what I understand. So how much is a new one, if you were to get one? In the $700,000 range. Okay. But the added value's generally what, a half million over sticker on those? Stud car. Do you remember what the color is? I don't remember the exact color. Really neat color. Carbon fiber everywhere. Man, I am hungry today, and I don't want any stress in my meal, so I'm going to go for my factor. Boom, and right off the bat, queso fundido and ground beef with cilantro cauliflower, rice, and roasted peppers. Seems like the first part of the year is always very stressful. We're in our first quarter, especially in the car business. Last thing you need is stress. So I have kept the weight off for well over a year in the factor. Of course, I went down to two meals a day. That helps a lot, but again, no prep, no mess. Dietitian approved. Always fresh, never frozen. Only takes two minutes. Head to factor75.com or click the link below and use code 50COFFEEWALK to get 50% off, plus free shipping on your first factor box. That's code 50COFFEEWALK at factor75.com to get 50% off, plus free shipping on your first box. In anticipation, just waiting for it to cool down a second kills me. Ground beef and queso. I actually like to mix these two together. And we stay crazy busy around here. I only have to wait two minutes for this. Maybe another minute for it to cool down. I generally don't wait for it to cool down. I just burn my mouth. So I want to get back to doing what I was doing. And it's cold outside too. This is great. Back in the day, my mom would call this a clean plate clubber. Two minutes to make it. Two minutes to eat it. Back to work. We've got Sandy here from Sunbelt who's been telling me about some very elusive early 1965 Shelby paperwork. Who oddly enough, I've had three different people pitch to me, but they didn't own it. It looks like he does. Let's see it. It's not even paperwork. It's some sort of vinyl. This is the worst way to display this. We can put it on the hood after they pull it out. We could do that. On the internet, there is an image that is within 10 to 15 seconds of one of these images that claims to be the very first picture of the Shelby GT cars. I can't prove one way or the other. This one is earlier. The other one is earlier by 30 seconds. It is in the same family of pictures that now belong to either the Shelby Registry or Road & Track. We haven't done all the research, but it is significant. When you see it for real, in 1965, halfway through the month of March, they put out a magazine that she has right there that was a Mustang exclusive magazine. Within that magazine, it was the very first ad for the GT350. These are the pictures that were taken for the very first ad. The red X's indicate some of the images that were used in the actual article, which was the first article to promote the GT350. These are the... The actual negatives. These are the actual negatives. In this particular one, they were displaying what they were doing to the cylinder heads. Every one of these has the negatives attached to it, so when you're building a magazine, you would do one of these sheets, for example. This is the driving sequence. I cannot prove that this is Ken Miles' car, but I cannot disprove it. It's one of the mules, for sure. In a California mountain road somewhere. So we're talking street cars, not R-Code race cars. Well, let's have a look at this. This image displays the first racing cars that go into these cars. I'm not the expert, you are. Well, this would have to be R-Code, not street cars because they didn't do this work to the street cars. They only did that to the R-Code cars. So that's pretty easy to prove that. And here it is again on the differential. So they have a lot of those pictures that are differential with that upper bar in it. So do these have date codes on them somewhere? Or is it just on the negatives? I don't know how you decode them, but they gotta be early. See, that's R-Code too. See the gauges? Yeah, that's the race car. So here's another one with the other gauges. Yeah, street car. So the images we've been able to sort of find online that have any relevance to this, this image right here, we own the image, we own the negatives. And they are a different format. So they're a larger see this square format? For some reason in magazines they were shooting with two different cameras. 120? Well, the negatives usually have date codes, don't they? You can look. I'll give you the other one. You can dig into it. This is so crazy. We're not doing this on a nice table. We were wearing white gloves when we bought them. Not drinking beer in some car. Well, hopefully we don't have to sit at a table and arm wrestle for these things. We think they need to go to somebody who understands. Well, I sure understand and appreciate what you've got. This is the first documentation of the Shelby style. Let's look at this one see if it's got a date code. Yeah, take that one. For sure. It would be on the side there, wouldn't it? Right here. Two old guys with bad eyes. I might need this. There's date codes and time stamps on there. For sure. How about we meet you on the other side of the stage so you can go across. We're going to meet on the other side of the stage. We're going to go and help root yourselves two trucks. Take that. We'll meet you. Is this something that I can own? Yes. We just don't know. To be continued. Early on, you guys had the paperwork, which is great. I'm glad y'all brought it here. Were there ever a stack of posters with this paperwork? Nothing. We have this. that's all we've got. Can we look at it one more time? To be ridiculously transparent, we're huge fans. My wife and I have a YouTube channel and it's on a small scale compared to yours. We've built it up over the last 18 months and I've been telling Sandy, you know that guy. You have his contact. One day, I want to meet him. We met you a year and a half ago. You were the most gracious person to me but you met us as just people plugging in. This came up and I said if I'm going to get on this deal, I only want to do it to meet you. For me to speak as if I'm intelligent about the content would mean that I have studied it and understand Shelby history. I don't feel that I do and I think in all of our research, you understand it better than anybody and if you don't understand it enough, the ties you have to it are much stronger than we have. I appreciate that. If we had that image, I think we have a $100,000 image. But we don't. There's one page of these that's missing. As far as we can gather, Ford owns that one page and they used it in either Motor Trend or Road Driver. Car Driver. It's probably Car Driver or Road Track. This magazine is very important so it's Road and Track. It's Road and Track, clearly. So this right here is definitely for an R-Code race car motor because they would have never done this for a production Kei car motor. That's really cool. This weird little gauge cluster is interesting. We don't have that image, nor do we have this one. But when you start looking at them, this is an image that belongs to us, this is an image that belongs to us, this one is. So it's convoluted because as they were doing the marketing for the car and this is apparently the first marketing for a GT350 or any Shelby Mustang. Well that was a lot of money back then. A dollar? Wow. So all the names that are in here contain this. Not all of them. That's the problem. Because I think Road and Track ends up skipping some. This is out in their parking lot when they're disassembling cars You need to magnify that to really get a good picture of it. You've got the image of it. So this one clearly has a race bucket seat in it and the gauges that you were speaking of. It's an R-Code car. So the interesting ones to us and again our only ability is to go through the internet and sort of research an image. So I'm going to show you, or Theresa will the very first image. Show us the very first image. So we basically found that these pictures were the ones that we were finding just on the internet. And it just says that it was the prototype during the advertising of this photo shoot. And these pictures all are the exact same time time lapse of when they did these photos. So it looks like the car that we're looking at in these pictures is serial number 3. They claim on the internet the first photo of a Mustang GT350. If you look at the reflection on the windshield there, and you look at the reflection on the windshield here and you compare those somewhere in this sequence somebody took some of these they're an odd sized picture and odd sized negative somebody took this out and claimed that this was the very first photo of a Mustang. These have been hidden for 50 to 60 years. Where did you guys find them? Can you divulge that? I can't divulge the guy's name but it's him here. So a gentleman who inherits his dad's legacy the father ran VW Trends magazine so this is how the story goes. Okay. So Michael Summers was my father. Wow. They opened up his storage container and found so we came across a Von Dutch like a crazy Von Dutch it's a set of 160 drawings we agreed to purchase that in that the gentleman said would you be interested in some GT350 stuff? Well my interest grew exponentially because I was like that's how I'm going to meet you. I'm not kidding. I'm honored that you guys I am so humbled and honored that y'all wouldn't even think that I know what I'm looking at here we don't know what we're looking at so tell us but just in context if the internet says that that's the first picture then we either have the sister picture to it or we have all of the other pictures Here's what I think we're looking at I've only had a few minutes to look at this I think we're looking at serial number 3 street car and serial number 1 R code Yes That's pretty strong I feel that this is serial number 1 R code I do too and I would like to show you that picture and they didn't tell me that because when it comes up on the internet that's a very interesting one so where it comes up on the internet this car is definitely from the same camera in the same sequence and if you can tell me that isn't the car a split second later in that corner in the same space then I don't know what to tell you I agree and then the next one if you go through these pictures right here this picture that car is a split second later so if you're a photographer in that moment taking pictures of that R code car to do the promotion for Shelby you are click click click click click we have found the other images that are a couple before it we don't know who owns them we believe oh here it is again so this one is one split second before if you look at the nose of the car versus those two posts but we own the negatives we have permission to use them to make posters I don't even know I don't think anymore with the internet that there's that much value in that I think it's fantastic that you've proven you own it and she said that earlier today and I said I think it's the opposite because AI does whatever it does well things have changed this is actually something that's for real and I don't know that 20 years from now no I'm interested I want to try to own it from a bargaining standpoint and it's not where I'm going with this we're not really bargaining I'm okay with the conversation what do I have to do to own this I don't even know I just wanted to show it to you become friends with you I want to own it because I'm going to put a lot of time and effort into it I'm not going to try to market so my friend that came up with this and bought the Von Dutch collection was very interested in the Von Dutch collection when this came up I said I have to own this to meet you so you're here what his valuation on it is is his valuation on it I want half of that I want him to have his half I don't want anything from it to be able to meet you what does he value it at I don't know I'd like to get you back to my office and study it some more I'd give it to you to do that I want to own it I know I was just going to say turn the camera off I don't know what I just did but it's something cool Dennis I'm just happy to meet you I'm humbled and honored that you guys are here and brought this stuff to me but it wasn't cheap but it might be awesome so Dave and I are going to go show this to Aaron Shelby and see what he thinks so what I believe this is is R code serial number 1 phonograph archives and the negatives and serial number 3 prototype and the Brock H. Daytona at the factory with the negatives that's pretty cool I think so thanks for everything you do for us we appreciate it I've not seen this stuff before this is cool so you've never seen this no you know who would love to see this if we got time is Peter Brock he was there building this car his car is in here it's Daytona I don't remember which one marketing shots on the street that is cool how did you track this thing down a coffee walk viewer brought it to me do you have that I don't have that issue I don't either it's one of the only ones I don't have and I've never seen that is nice Kevin doesn't even have that one I have all the car lights but not this special issue that's almost impossible that I have something that Kevin doesn't have that's what I was thinking alright so one of the traditions that Richard and I have had here over the years is at the Valley before we head to Barry Jackson we float a dollar what about five dollars that's what we're going to do is that five times the luck for the twin mill alright you feeling lucky today I'm feeling lucky today alright so was this a good idea or a bad idea this was a damn good idea it's just we had to go so far to get it and then we had to put a little gas monkey on it get it going like it's supposed to go but now it freaking goes we spun it let's see if we're going to win it this thing is freaking bullet proof now it's a lot of fun I had this hot wheel when I was a kid I don't know if you did because you're way older than me I've not been a kid back then when I was a kid you were probably already an adult way older like 10% you got more gray hair than I have I know I know but I color mine too maybe I color gray to make me look more distinguished but seriously though this was a kick ass car it was fun to button up a couple things on it the guys loved it in the shop I loved having it I wish I could have kept it people were coming by the shop just to see this and then they go over and buy a shirt or something you know me I'm a marketer this is a marketing piece actually it's been cool to see people walk by and see it here it's kind of like the shock and awe you got the Hoonitruck and the twin mill and the Batmobile what a cool lineup hopefully this is about 5 million dollars worth of cars right here I hope so too and we talked about it twice on camera it's really hard to see this paint but you can actually see it under the light you can see all the metaflake and the ruby red so all this ruby is actually in the clear not in the paint really cool no risk no reward let's go sell it what is this? twin mill outstanding are you all going to collect them in the package or are you going to play with them good choice you sure? ok you guys are going to get the most expensive ones then what do you guys think? there you go thanks for being here guys got the young car crowd here at Bear Jackson right Kels? do you know what that is Logan? isn't it like a Hot Wheels? you're right you'd trade me your hamburger for only 20 Hot Wheels there's only 20 Hot Wheels twin mill you'd rather keep your burger than that? trade it I can probably buy you like a thousand hamburgers yeah probably how about just for a bite Dennis loves the best bite you already bit out of it there's only 20 of these buddy Kels thank you thank you so much how many do we have left? so we started with 20 of these and there's only 20 what's your name and where are you from? I'm Gage and I was born in Michigan but I'm from Oakland okay and what is this car? the twin mill alright but you get one of only 20 made can I have one for my brother too? what's your brother's name? Brock how old's Brock? he's 10 so he's older than you? well I'll tell you what since he was not here he's going to get the handy one not the real one and you can always tell your brother you got the good one one of 20 see you found him thanks for coming in sir Brock I just messed up your book alright so Gage was here but his brother was not so you got the real hot wheels and you got the candy one and you did this drawing? so Richard and I only had 20 of these now you get the candy one and you get the last real twin mill hot wheels ever look at that put it to auction when we get done with this it'll bring more money I think that's pretty good you guys have been trying to be true and throughout the TV and all of that we've had a great time together and you bring us some incredible unique automobiles so as the car guy I think everybody started with the hot wheels did we not? yes or no? yes we did and one of the coolest ever there are two twin mills this one runs and drives the actual designer from hot wheels I would go for a pit in this car and Tommy DeFranco aka Tommy Twin Mill who's built more twin mill cars than anybody that I know of completed the car this is 4,000 hours and today one of the cool things we did we had 20 of these we gave away to the top kids we need you here and we need you in the industry and when this car shows up it also comes with a trailer and the trailer is designed to set up exactly like a hot wheels box so when it's in it you can see it on both sides incredibly cool you've got something crazy in your collection or in your museum or cars for coffee we've actually driven this car it is amazing alright let's go so far you are paying for the trailer yes so the motors in this car were built by big gals toybox and everybody out here knows who big gals toybox is they are some of the most famous motors in the world balanced blueprinted to be almost exactly the same horsepower you look at the numbers on the back these are matching motors in today's realm it's not a big deal thousand horsepower they start, they run, every time incredible car so far you guys buy the trailer and remember the trailer fills in 5 start it up go well no risk no reward it's always fun check out this jacket my jacket is cool you know what dad we get to do what we love together so without a doubt the best buy of the day was the cheeseburger right a thousand percent well because the reason this food is so good in skybox is because of his wife Carolyn tomahawk ribeye with the quiche yes with the quiche and garlic potatoes you know what I am going to do right you are going to put them all together yep oh I like that one best buy ready you want it no I don't want it so that's my lovely awesome daughter it's her show see you all next week as always please like share follow and most importantly subscribe to our youtube channel see you next week