Shelby Racer

[racer24]

I was informed at a local car show that a acquaintce I meet through my cobra had passed away this spring.

Has anyone ever heard of a race driver named Jim Fields??
I meet this gentleman about 3 years ago at a local car show.
He told me that he raced the real thing for Carroll Shelby in the 60's in Califorina. He raced the Cobras at the Drag strip and the cars were stored at LA air craft hanger. Some of the stories he
told were incredible. He said Carroll hated drag racing and kind let them do what they wanted for the drag cars. Last year he gave me a buisness card with him as a younger man standing
beside a COBRA with #8 and Wagner / Fields on the door. The first name was hard to make out. I take it that this was their race team. Does any one know any history of this team.

Jim loved Cobras, FORDS , asked for Gods forgiveness whenever
a word about chevy's came out of his mouth. When first
say my car he was so complimentary and when I found out he raced for Shelby ,I told him you know its not a real one.
He replied " oh I known , but I also no there are no BAD Cobras so it looks great to me." He will be missed by alot of us at the
local car shows and cruise-ins.

[Nedsel]

Jim Fields teamed up with Brad Wagner to campaign CSX 3007, using a tunnelport 427 they swapped out of a Fairlane. They were pretty successful, although they were only active for a fairly short period of time. Sorry to learn Jim has passed on.

[racer24]

Ned

Thanks for the info on Jim. His stories seemed to fact based not to be true. He gave be a first hand account of history that
will never be done again.

Thanks

Rich

[clint67]

here are some of the docs Jim gave me long ago.
I have more but it won't allow me to attach.
I did send all in to shelby american world registy for records to the CSX 3007
history.