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I wanna again welcome you out of The 405 Coffee Break Guys new week. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, pretty nice out there warming up. Bottle of water, let's see what's happening.

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Spring wheat, called chandel myself 14 pro $5.52. A 550lb steer calf. Hey. I'm gonna bump it up to a 569lb steer calf $4.99 a pound. What? That equates to $2,839 a head. What? Butcher Hog in Iowa 61¢ a pound. And what about this, guys? Have you checked out silver price? As I'm recording this silver is a $117 an ounce. Did I say a butcher hog 61¢? And a 100lb pound fat lime in Billings. I got so excited over that silver price. 100lb fat lamb in Billings $2.67.

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But guys, there's more, much more. Yes, sir. It's Jay and Joe's Motor Monday, the day we look at horsepower one Monday at a time. Hey, Orvin. What if I don't like cars and engines and motors and racing?

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What if I like music the best and you talk about cars all the time on Mondays? Well, I'll tell you what. You're in luck today. Even if you aren't that fond of the automotive world and you like music best of all today, today, I have a special for you. Today, fast cars blended with great music

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And all that right after our bible verse for today. Listen now. Bet you haven't heard this one before. Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel and she worked in the service of Naaman's wife. 2nd Kings 5:2

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Yes. A verse about a little girl. Interesting story. Yeah. This little girl tells Naaman's wife that Naaman should go see the man of Israel and Naaman would be cured of his disease. But now that's another story.

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You can look it up yourself and get the full account. 2nd Kings chapter 5. But I selected that verse because I have a story of a little girl for you today. Hey, I thought it was motor Monday. It is.

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Stick with me. Let me start at the beginning. There was a man and his name was Carroll Shelby. This man did great things in the automotive world. In fact, not too many Mondays ago, I told you about this man Shelby and he was involved with the with the Ford GT 40, the car that won the 24 hour Le Mans in 1966.

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Well, then it repeated it in '67, '68, and '69. As of 2024, it remains the only American built car to win the Le Mans. Okay. So you remember the Ford GT 40. Carroll Shelby was instrumental in building this powerhouse of a race car.

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But let's rewind a bit. Let's go back further from 1966. Let's go back to the early sixties and check out what was happening then. In Carroll Shelby's own words, and you too can pull it up and watch and listen to him on YouTube. It's titled Carroll Shelby in his own words.

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Well, anyway, in this short video, you can hear mister Shelby tell this story. Now to bring you up to speed, the Carroll Shelby Cobra was a legendary American sports car created by racer Carol Shelby by fitting Ford v eight engines into lightweight AC Ace British Roadsters and their bodies. Knowing this, now I'll quote mister Shelby himself. There was a little girl that came into my office that was about five foot tall one day and and she said, I wanna buy a cobra. I says, honey, you're not old enough to buy a cobra.

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How how old are you? She said, I'm 17, and I have the money to buy a cobra. I thought, this is a little strange here. I better check it out. So I took her in the office and well we started talking.

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And her name was Carol Connors. And she says, I'm a songwriter and says, I wrote a song. To know him is to love him and I have enough money to buy a cobra. But I says, you aren't old enough to buy a Cobra. You have to bring your mother with you.

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So she brought in her little mother who was about five foot tall and she brought in her little brother. And now her mother didn't want her to buy the car but it was her money. She had earned it and she said I want to write a song about my Cobra. So I said that that'll be fine. I never thought it would amount to anything.

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Six months later this song had come out and it went to number 1. Actually number one in the country and and was there for a 1 full week before the Beatles came over and knocked it flat. And I don't like the Beatles to this day, mister Shelby said, end of quote. Then Mr. Shelby laughs a full belly laugh. Now guys, I did me some research and Mr. Shelby was correct.

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The young girl did write that song, hey little cobra. And it was sung by the Ripcords and you pull it up and you'll hear a Beach Boys quality in this music and it's interesting because one of the singers from the Ripcords later went over to the Beach Boys. But Mr. Shelby was wrong on one account. It didn't reach number one, but it did get to number 4 and well in my world that's close enough. And while it was number 4, guess which song was number one.

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Yep. You got it. I wanna hold your hand by the Beatles. Now you pull up Carol Shelby's account and then pull up the rip cord singing my little cobra based on a car that had a Ford 260 or 289 cubic inch engine cranking out about 300 horsepower in '63 '64 that's smoking.

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So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.