"We would like to credit Tony Popish for a lot of the research and most of the photos."

We purchased a lot of Shelby stuff from Branda for our project SNAKEYE. Everything to build the best 67 Shelby convertible 427, we had in mind already for a few years.

Our concept: The Snakeye 427 Convertible  We joked that if the car we found in Oklahoma recently was rare, then the money (15k) would have been wasted knowing fool well that finding a rare model today accidentally never, ever happens. 
After 50 years of research in Mustangs people don’t accidentally find rare models anymore. You buy them knowing what they are as the research has been done along time ago for you.  

However it worked in a different way this time...

Denise bought a 1967 Mustang convertible 3sp manual, 289, ac ps power roof  from Oklahoma in 2012.  The owner wanted to buy a farm and didn’t necessarily want to sell the car until his wife helped him make a choice;). The car was delivered to Australia. A daily driver quite tidy and red. When we got it we noticed the colour code was blank on the door tag. We sent a mail to Kevin Marti ordering an Elite report. Kevin send an email that the car is a rare “She CountrySpecial”

I had heard of the Country Special cars of Denver Colorado.  We know of High Country Specials, California Specials, Ski Country Specials but no one has ever recorded a “She Country Special” being a car for professional women developed by Ford with Ann Goodro of Goodro Ford. Ford nicknamed Mrs Goodro, “Uncanny Annie” due to her unique department store, sales techniques that became famous in Ford newsletters to dealers.  

Her husband Bill died of cancer during this time and Ann took over the dealership in a sink or swim exercise and to Ford’s delight upped sales 12% in the first year due to her “different and new selling style”.  The dealership sponsored two Drag cars (mustang and galaxie)and the baseball season and was highly regarded.  The drag cars were expensive and the first to go.   
 

Ann installed the first woman’s waiting lounge, ticket writers and decorators from the local department  store and coloured lights and props in some cases stuffed animals.  Sales in white were one of the most famous with fashion parades and local celebraties sending out invitations to all to view the new She Country Specials for professional women.  



Kevin Marti first published in 2010 an article that 28 hardtops and 9 convertibles were built, a newer research confirmed those 28 hardtops and 9 convertibles, no fastback was built.

The unique colours were all hand choosen by Ann.  Evening Orchard (Met) (lavender colour),  Bermuda Sand *(pink beige), Autumn Smoke (elephant grey) previously unknown until pictures emerged from Ann;  and Limelight Green (met) (light green almost white). 

Each had an orchid corsage, and a personalise engraved name plate mounted to the dash with the owners name developed by a local jeweller.

Then we researched further and found Ann’s daughter Leslee in the phone book who introduced us to a wondering woman called Ann Goodro.  At 90 still as sharp as a tack with a personality as large as life and wonderfully friendly.  She was so pleased to speak with Denise being amazed that this convertible car is the only She Country Special CV to be found to date and it was in Oklahoma let alone Australia!

Denise and Leslee, Anns daughter communicate regularly and then we find that Leslee as a child kept a scrap book of her mother’s dealership showing all the cars arriving with big banners on the trucks and  ” She “ cars (1 of each colour) in the showroom. 

Only one shown in these pics was a convertible, being the limelight green example which we believed is actually Denise’s car, as it is the only one with parchment interior of the 3 limelight green convertibles.

However upon removing the red paint layers we learned that in fact our car was painted indeed Autumn Smoke, which we verified  with Tony Popish/Special Paint Registry.

I have newspaper ads, invitations and a range of pictures including a previously unknown 1968 version Ann created called the “He Country Special” being Mustangs and in this case also Bronco’s and other manly models  in Stealth Black”