![]() ![]() That crest was on cars that won at LeMans, Sebring, Riverside, Laguna Seca and graced the side of the Shelby Trans-Am Mustangs during 19. It was on Parnelli Jones's King Cobra at the 1964 LA Times Grand Prix and on four Indy 500 winners. That was also the very first time a GT 350 was raced. During the boom time days of the quicksilver rush it reached 5,000 people. Today, Terlingua has a constant population of 9. The American version came to be Terlinguas. The Indians called the area Tres Linguas or three languages. Long ago three different Indian tribes used this area for sending out raiding parties to the surrounding areas. It seems a good friend of Carroll's, David Witts, an attorney from Dallas, purchased 200,000 acres of "desert wilderness and jagged mesa located in the SW part of Texas, near Big Bend National Park and the Mexican border." On the land was a ghost town named Terlingua. The story behind the fierce rabbit crest is another colorful chapter in Carroll Shelby's story. ![]()
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