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In 1962 he opened the first racing school in the U.S at Riverside International in SoCal. Shelby had John Timanus and Peter Brock handling teaching duties alongside their Shelby American responsibilities.In 1965, coinciding with the Shelby Mustang project, the school came to own three Shelby GT350s. Over the next two years the cars would receive an erratic mix of upgrades from the GT350R track program. After the school closed in 1967 the cars slipped into private hands.Notably James Garner spent a few weeks at the school prepping for his role in