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According to Shelby, “The first race I entered was held at a small airport near Caddo Mills, Texas. Quite a crowd turned out because it was one of the early Sports Car Club of America races. The course was laid out close to this little town about 40 miles from Dallas. It was a one-day affair on May 3, 1952. As far as Ed Wilkins’ MG TC was concerned, it was really as stock as the day it left the factory. I can’t remember much about the race except that I won.”

His first time out, Shelby won the MG Race and the Production Race at Caddo Mills in Ed Wilkins’ TC on May 3, 1952.

“The next race I entered was in August 1952 at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. That time, I drove an XK-120 and beat a bunch of other Jaguars to win without too much trouble.”

Shelby drove Roy Cherryhomes’ Cadillac-Allard J2X at Eagle Mountain, Texas, on October 26, 1952.

Jeanne Shelby is standing next to Carroll.

Shelby was in two races at Turner Air Force Base in which he finished 4th and 12th.

Shelby is wondering just how he came in 1st in Charles Brown’s Cad-Allard at Caddo Mills, Texas, in November 1952.

Shelby remembered the Caddo Mills event, “It happened to be the very first race that Masten Gregory ever drove in. And, I must say, he had an awful lot of guts, cutting his teeth as a race driver in a Cadillac-powered Allard.” Gregory went on to become a leading driver of the 1950s.