Comments on: Jim Morrison’s Lost 1967 Shelby GT500

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:48:21 +0000

The Car is in Northern Wisconsin. Long story.

By: hatch

hatch — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:30:19 +0000

in tube video above the car dosnt sound like a v8,428 etc at all, has it been edited ?

also what do the dealer surrounds on licence plates read ? in other words who was the selling dealer ?

By: John R

John R — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:53:03 +0000

This subject comes up every few years. The Shelby Registry knows the VIN and from what I have heard it was checked against the CA DMV database and the car has not been registered in California since 1969. Is it possible that it was taken to another state? Yes, but that is probably unlikely as the car was wrecked when it was last seen and had little value at the time. None of the parts from the car have ever turned up. The consensus is pretty much that it was crushed.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:24:23 +0000

Oh and Stefano, you can contact me if you’d like help with your GT500. I restore them for a living and would be happy to help out a mate in Italy!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:23:17 +0000

The VIN is blocked out, as Bret, a Shelby hunter from the East Coast, has the paperwork and is hiding the VIN from most, so that he can be the first to find and hopefully buy the car. He has spoken to me about it before and also told me the VIN, whether by accident or not, I don’t know.

By: brittany blue 67

brittany blue 67 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:15:42 +0000

The Car Hunter says:
March 22, 2011 at 7:25 pm
One more thing. Why is the vin number blocked out on the registration as seen above?

its certainly blocked out to limit the proliferation of that #, if the vin of a valuable missing mustang with 40 years of unknown history was bouncing around the internet there would be half a dozen lost morrison shelbys that would turn up and be sold off to suckers.

Hell there are probably some cars out there with parts that could be sourced to that car

obviously if someone wanted the vin they could find it, but why make fraud easier?

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By: Rat Rod Authority

Rat Rod Authority — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:09:31 +0000

Amazing how that footage is still around after so many years

By: The Car Hunter

The Car Hunter — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:25:30 +0000

One more thing. Why is the vin number blocked out on the registration as seen above?

By: The Car Hunter

The Car Hunter — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:21:58 +0000

So here is the likely possibilities. A. The car was wrecked, frame was bend and or the entire body was bent. Now we have to remember this. Mechanics alot of times, will total out a car even though the car is repairable. So what we could be looking at is a case of the mechanic and or body man telling jim that “hey, look, the car can’t be repaired, there has been to much damage from the last wrecks, we will have to total it out” Its also possible that the body man or mechanic, after having worked on the car so much, finaly decided that hey, this dude drinks like a fish, drives like a maniac, and can’t keep this thing on the road, he wrecks it again, I am gonna total it out. Probably save his life. Record company, who fit alot of jims bills, probably had the same attitude. His wife, also, probably had the same attitude. So, it is possible that the vehicle itself is still in existance. Damaged, or repaired. Or, its been crushed into a nice small midnight mist blue cube and long ago melted down for scrap. Even then though, with only 47 comeing out of the plant. Anyone would have atleast yaked the engine and transmission before scrapping it. Step one, find the engine and transmission. The rest of the story on the car would soon follow. It is possible its sitting somewhere in the midwest under a stack of hay or in a dirty old barn. Someone should get to work on finding the car.