Contributed by Tara Bush and Sheri Peplau, photos by Russ Muller Photography It's a fact that the majority of the car community are male.  Nothing wrong with that, but the female interest has grown since our early days of cruising in the mid 1980's.  Here's a tale of two, dare I say, “middle aged” females that had different experiences with cars growing up but recently found themselves together among the local car guys with twin Shelbys…40 years apart! Tara Bush I’m a GM girl!  I’ve found Mopars to be exciting, in a bad-boy sort of way.  But Fords were on the fringes of my life.  I’m aware of them, know what they are, but never got close.  Shelbys were an enigma.  So, here’s the story of how I became an owner of a rare 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. On Christmas eve 2008, I wanted to take my mother to view Christmas lights in my 1969 Camaro Convertible which was stored in a run-of-the-mill storage facility.  Not a soul around, but my bay door was blocked with a pickup.  A gentleman was working in the bay beside me and I could see between the cover and boxes and motorcycle, the unmistakable Shelby inboard headlights.  We chatted, exchanged numbers, and went our merry ways.  Every few months he’d call to chat.  After a year or so, THE call came….he needed to sell NOW! As the story was told to me, the Shelby came from JD Ball in Miami, candy apple red, 4 speed, 428 engine, and air conditioning.  A doctor from Venezuela purchased the showroom display and had replaced the 428 with a 427 side-oiler, the racing big block and shipped it to his home country to race.  Once he passed, the widow sold it to another Shelby owner who took some pieces from it for his other Shelby then sold it to the gentleman that I purchased it from.  He brought it back to the United States, repainted it slightly off from the original red, and rebuilt the engine back to factory 427 specs.  After 12 years, and never driving it, it was offered to me.  I am a big fan of matching numbers so this story concerned me. Not knowing much about Fords, even less about Shelbys, and never knowing what an FE block was, I consulted some...