RSS
Home
Jim Morrison's Lost Shelby Mustang Plus Haunted Ghost Picture
Print
Email
RSS
Subscribe
There are many legends surrounding the lead singer of The Doors and most of them are centered around how Jim Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, at just 27 years old. Another rumour circles around a picture taken at his grave in Paris, France at the Pere Lachais Cemetary. We'll get to that one later in the story. Lately another legend has been echoing around the INTERNET, whatever happened to James Douglas Morrison's 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500?
My fascination with The Doors music and Jim Morrison's excellent lyrics began while I attending George Washington Junior High School in Alexandria, Virginia. I was reading "Noone Here Get's Out Alive" By Danny Sugarman while in the 7th grade at the very school where Jim Morrison Graduated in 1961. My friend's mom was in his class and described him as "a weirdo." A great book was written on Jim Morrison's basically unknown and influential time spent growing up in Alexandria, Virginia by Mark Opsasnick.
I have been a fan of the Doors Music ever since. There's something about the combination of Jim's poetic lyrics and stage antics, backed by the carnivalistic brilliance of Ray Manzerek's keyboards, Robbie Krieger's finger-plucked guitar, and John Densmore's drums that combines to make their music stand out from any other music created before or even up to the present time.
The legend of Jim Morrison's night mist blue 1967 Mustang GT 500 starts after the release of The Door's self titled debut album. Apparently the executives at Electra Records were so happy with Morrison's work on the album that they awarded him with the brand new Ford Mustang. The mystery arises after an incident one night in Los Angeles when Morrison allegedly ran his new Mustang into a pole on Sunset Boulevard.
After hitting the pole Morrison allegedly walked up the street to The Whiskey A Go Go where the Doors had performed regularly helping to spread the word around Los Angeles about the popular band. Later that night when he returned to retrieve the car it had vanished. Some say that Morrison never looked into the car to find out where it was or who had towed it. Ever since then noone can truly say where the car is or if it has survived.
One story says that it was sold many times and repeatedly wrecked, and was therefore underivable and that it ended up in a junk yard and was eventually crushed in the early 1980's. Another story offers a different ending than the Sunset Boulevard accident legend.
This story goes that Jim Morrison left the Shelby Mustang at Los Angeles International Airport for an extended time while on tour and when he came back the car had already been towed and sold at auction. These stories are featured on a Shelby Mustang Motors web page in an article written about Morrison's car by Bret Matteson. Matteson's site mentions a video which shows Jim Morrison driving the four speed Mustang Shelby GT 500, and he was also able to track down the title for Morrison's Mustang which could help to unearth the truth behind the legend of the Pony Car.
Now back to the legend surrounding Jim Morrison's death. Lately an author in Paris revealed that he had inside information surrounding The Doors singer's death. As his story goes, Jim had overdosed in the bathroom of a Paris club and to avoid the crowds, and a possible media circus his body was carried out of the club and up to his apartment. This is where the original well known story comes in, where Jim Morrison was found dead in his bathtub by his long time girlfriend Pamela Courson.
Another legend suggests that Morrison had suffered from a fall off of a stage while he was performing, and that he had some internal injury that eventually let to a blood clot in his lung, or perhaps a heart attack. This story is held to be true by Pamela Courson's mom as told in The Doors drummer John Densmore's book. Whatever the truth may be, Jim Morrison was buried on July 7, 1971 and no autopsy was ever performed.
Now back to the latest rumour. It seems that a fan had taken a picture of himself at Morrison's grave, and was surprised to find a ghostly image of the singer right next to him when he developed the shot. Here is a video describing the whole story.
Believe what you will about the picture and the manner in which the Lizard King died. Whatever the case, if you are brave enough, you can still visit his grave in Pere Lachaise Cemetary in Paris. But for now the legends surrounding his death and his 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 still remained unsolved!
IF YOU ENJOY MY ARTICLES PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND PASS THEM ON TO YOUR FRIENDS.
What is the most expensive car in the world?
Drivin' Ivan Katz interviews Lamborghini Test Driver Valentino Balboni.
What do Ferrari and Pink Floyd have in common?
A Ferrari is among the 10 Most Beautiful Cars in the world.
A Casual Conversation With a Racing Legend.
The Ten Best Porsches of All Time
Ride along with Drivin' Ivan in the Tesla Roadster.
Ferrari Test Rossa becomes the Most Expensive Car in the World.
Read my 2010 Mazda MX-5 Miata Review and watch the video.
Check out the Mazda Miata Superlight!
Here's what happens when a car hits an animal at 190 miles per hour!
Ted Kennedy's Infamous Oldsmobile.
Check out the new 2010 Cadillac CTS.
Want to know the real deal on the Cash For Clunkers Program?
Here's debut video of the 2010 BMW Z4.
Here are some more modernized classic cars.
Why is the Matchbox Car so important?
Related Articles:
Comments
.jpg)
