Shirley Shahan Z-11 model

[Z-11Guy]

Built and sent this Z-11 model to Shirley Shahan. She said when she opened the package and held her Z-11 she cried. I really had no idea building models of past supers stockers and giving them to racers and friends here would created such an emotional response as it did with many others before. In a way it’s selfish I guess, by making others happy makes me happy, something to quell the inner sadness that hits me when I least expect it. She loved this car and had big plans to race professionally with it then GM pulled the plug on her and the others. Rest is history.

 

[Murphdog]

Nice!
Jeff

 

[Z-11Guy]

Shirley received the model and promptly placed it in her vast collection. She sent me a few shots of her with the Z-11 in ‘63.

 

[Jim Sullivan]

That’s awesome Raj!

 

[BSL409]

Very nice& very cool!

 

[409envy]

Raj, where did this car wind up?

 

[Iowa 409 Guy]

I had a shooting friend that was familiar with her and saw her in the days racing. I think he told me her husband raced also? The guy spoke highly of her.

 

[63 dream'n]

I had never heard of her or seen her car before………?

 

[Z-11Guy]

Raj, where did this car wind up?

Evan, when I spoke to HL way back in 1997 at Norwalk he told me the car was converted to a 327 with the 4-speed and steel nose. Shirley told me they sold it to a young woman in Tulare in 1965. It was seen for awhile and disappeared. It was last spotted in 1969 in a parking lot at Pomona fairgrounds so never seen again. HL still had the original QM 427 engine in a jet ski boat believe it or not

 

[heddrik]

Awesome job sir, thank you for keeping the little known history alive.

 

[oldskydog]

My 61 409 block came from her home town. I wonder if she or HL might know something about it.

 

[63 dream'n]

Sounds like you gentlemen all know who she is …..I did not so I looked it up…….For any others, who like me …….did not know

The Drag-on Lady: Racer, pioneer, mom

The life and times of Shirley Shahan

www.nhra.com

So after commenting that I had never seen this car before I went to George’s website and there were two photos of her car there I do not recall ever seeing a two-tone Z 11………