At the Shelby Collection in Boulder:







 

The CEO not knowing about  it... 

That is a good example of how this hobby is changing.  Alot of the guys working on restoring and keeping these cars alive have no first hand knowledge of the history of the cars.  You can't blame THEM.  Alot of them were not even alive when some of us were glued to the magazine pages and races on TV watching this history being made.  But it is our responsibility to help pass that information along to the younger guys if that history is not to be forgotten.

Hence...FYI FORD

 

Greg B wrote:

I did some searching.   I read in two places Titus drove 5R002  part time.  It was a "factory prototype" which is why it has a B on it.   The car was thought lost...........however.........lost meant it went to Mexico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKuaGUi9P0k

Might be the car in your picture as of 3 years ago

The Shelby GT350-R's first race was at Green Valley Raceway in Texas on Valentine's Day of 1965. As luck would have it, test driver Ken Miles finished the B-Production race in first place. Racing legend Jerry Titus would later drive the prototype car as part of Shelby's test program. In all, Titus would go on to become the B-Production Champion that year. Another popular driver, Mark Donohue, piloted his chassis number 105 GT350-R to many victories. By the end of the year, the Shelby GT350-R had won five of SCCA's six divisions.Looking back, some other GT350-R racers included Chuck Cantwell, Scuderia Filipinetti, Bob Johnson, Tom Yeager, Tommy Hamilton, and Pedro Rodriguez. Rodriguez piloted his #18 (5R 108) GT350-R Mustangto victory over Jerry Titus who was driving Shelby's 5R 002 factory prototype. The car driven by Rodriguez, which features green-and-red stripes in Mexican livery, would go on to race at Daytona 24 Hours, and would win the SCCA Southwest Division title in 1966. The car now resides with a private owner in Oceanside, Calif.

In all, only thirty six 1965 Shelby GT350-R Mustangs were produced. Two of these were company prototypes. It's believed 26, or so, are still in existence today.

Best I can do for you with 15 minutes of time.  

http://www.stangtv.com/news/5r002-the-first-shelby-gt350-r-model-ever-to-produced/  

Nother site I found

 

No No not factory prototype.
Notice in the second paragraph above, "Ken Miles finished the B-Production race in first place"

The GT350's raced in the "B" Production Sports Car Class, along with 283 powered Corvettes and XK-E Jaguars(327 Corvettes and 289 Cobras were "A" Production. Thats why the "B" is on the car, marking which class it was in, when multiple classes raced on the track together.
 Jerry Titus and Pedro Rodreguz as the Shelby Team GT-350's were at Green Valley Raceway the year after Ken Miles debued the GT350 there. I was there and saw the races both years, 65 & 66!!
Thats why Miss May is a GT 350 C...Clone, Copy, Contemporary, Competition, Corky's

Corky