and Ford as it related to this car and to his interest in driving Ford race cars. In addition to their value as historic documentation, these documents are truly fascinating to read. Ultimately, they added information that literally changed the known and published history of 5R002. One story well illustrates the importance of Clawson’s records to the history of 5R002. After experiencing a couple of engine failures, Clawson asked Geddes if Ford could help him acquire a reliable replacement. Geddes’ answer came quickly: Clawson should go to Ford contractor Kar Kraft in Brighton, Michigan, to pick up a specific engine. Clawson could not believe his luck; the new powerplant was not only a full racing-spec GT40 engine, but it was also a Ford “XE” experimental engine that was never supposed to leave Ford property to ensure that GM could not obtain it. All of the paperwork confirming and detailing this engine is included in Clawson’s files. Both this engine and the files go with the car today. Clawson ran 5R002 on the SCCA Midwest circuit with sponsorship covertly channeled from Ford through famed Detroit dealer Stark Hickey Ford. On May 7, 1966, starting in 22nd place at Grattan, Michigan, because he was unable to attend the qualifying race, Clawson clawed his way up to finish fourth in BP. On May 22 at Grayling, Michigan, overheating problems held him to third in BP, but he came back to score the class win and second overall at Waterford Hills, Michigan, on May 28 and then second in class and overall on May 29. His son, Scott, also won B Production in that weekend’s Novice race while driving 5R002. Clawson picked up third in class at Mid-Ohio on June 5 and then returned to Waterford Hills to take the overall win on June 25 and second in class and overall the next day. Again at Waterford Hills in August, Clawson took the overall and class wins on the 27th and finished second in class and fourth overall on the 28th, and Scott Clawson repeated his earlier BP win in the Novice race. The 1966 season finished on October 9 with overheating problems and a sixth place in B Production at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Bill Clawson qualified for the 1966 SCCA National Championship Runoffs driving 5R002, but was unable to arrange transportation of the car to the event in time to attend. In 1967, Clawson ran a light schedule, covering Waterford Hills and Grattan, scoring a second in class followed by two B Production wins. In all, Clawson and his son, Scott, entered the car in 25 regional and national races through 1966 and ’67, amassing five first place, four second place, two third place, one fourth place and one sixth place finishes. Scott Clawson entered six of those races, winning two Novice races and two third place finishes in regular BP races—a marvelous combined overall record. Clawson sold the car in 1968 to Texans Dale Wood and Russell Fish, who dominated the SCCA Southwest Division winning nearly every race with Russell Fish behind the wheel. Fish won B Production 18 times through 1969 at Green Valley, Austin, Conroe Airport, Odessa, Chenault Air Base, San Marcos, San Jacinto and Texas International Speedway, entering 5R002 in 21 races, scoring 18 first-place finishes, including 10 overall wins, all on the way to winning the 1969 SCCA Southwest Division B Production Championship. In 1970, Luis Blanq-Cacaux of Monterrey, Mexico purchased 5R002 for $3,500 and another $350 for the rather rudimentary open-wheel transport trailer that then carried it. Blanq-Cacaux raced the car in the Mexican Trans-Am series, scoring three firsts, three seconds and three third place finishes in Monterrey. He also raced in the Mexico 1000 with Gerardo Martinez. He campaigned 5R002 for two years and then parked it after painting it with gray primer while on its trailer in an open shelter in a yard near Monterrey, where it sat until it was discovered by Mark Gillette of Dallas in 1989. Gillette immediately purchased and returned the car to the U.S., subsequently selling it to his business partner, Rick Nagel, who then sold it to Steve Volk, who displayed 5R002 at the Shelby American Museum in Boulder, Colorado, in “as found” condition. It would be displayed there for 14 years. In 2010, Volk sold 5R002 to dedicated Shelby collector John Atzbach, who was invited to show the car at the Quail Motorsports Gathering, celebrating 45 years of the Shelby Mustang. Still in as- found condition, it was quite the sight amongst all the beautifully restored cars gracing The Quail’s manicured grounds. That same year in 2010, it was invited and shown at the prestigious Kirkland Concours in Kirkland, Washington, as part of an exceptional display of “Screamers by Shelby,” again still in as-found condition. Atzbach then commissioned John Brown of Thoroughbred