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For Sale By
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Date Posted
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Historybuff
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Mon January 11, 2010
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Asking Price
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$350.00
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Great
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Description:
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See on website called
http://legendconnection.org/links.aspx
(Bob Shaw's site for former Shelby employees)
It's the fourth painting down on the page.
This is a giclee print on canvas (gallery wrapped, which means the image wraps around the edges of the wood supports) , reproduced from an original oil painting, the print approx. 20" x 30" depicting Der Snakemeister back around '56-'57 when he was racing Ferraris and Maseratis for a patron named John Edgar. Shelby is shown wearing his famous bestriped farmer's big overalls. The anguish of driving (and he was still in the pits mind you) is shown in his face, as he was in considerable pain due to a heart condition he managed to hide from the race organizations until 1960 when he finally retired as a race driver. At one point Shelby won so many races that the press back then called him the
"Texas Tornado," hence the name of the work.
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Keywords:
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"Texas Tornado" portrait of you know who in Fifties
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