Watch Jim Morrison Totally Thrash “Blue Lady,” his 1967 Shelby GT500
- by John Gilbert
SHELBY RISING: WATCH JIM MORRISON TOTALLY THRASH “BLUE LADY” HIS 1967 SHELBY GT500
If the Doors’ Jim Morrison was alive today it’s likely the first question any Mustang guy would ask him is, “What ever happened to your 1967 Shelby GT500?”
The scene is in West Hollywood, at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Doheny Drive. Gil Turner’s liquor store has been known as “the liquor store to the stars” since it opened in 1953. I knew that my friend Sonny Goulet, a Hollywood stuntman, had worked at Gil Turner’s before joining the Screen Actors Guild, so I asked him if he had met Morrison during that time. Sonny replied Morrison was coming into the store regularly for about two weeks. He said Morrison was boisterous and a nice guy, and would buy a bottle of Wild Turkey and then walk back up Doheny Drive. I asked Sonny if he ever caught a glimpse of Morrison driving a car and he told me he watched Janis Joplin pull up to Gil’s in her psychedelic mural-painted 356 Porsche the week before she died, but no, he never witnessed Morrison driving a car. Sonny is a hardcore Ford man so he would have committed seeing the Nightmist blue Shelby to long-term memory.
