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The Memphis International Raceway (more commonly known as MIR) was founded in 1986 by Ed Gatlin, who along with a group of investors, bought a 400-acre tract of land within the northeastern section of Shelby County, and built a drag strip with an adjacent road course, including a dirt track and a go-kart track. [2]
The Shelby Mustang is a high-performance variant of the Ford Mustang built by Shelby American from 1965 to 1967 and by the Ford Motor Company from 1968 to 1970. In 2005, Ford revived the Shelby nameplate for a high-performance model of the fifth-generation Ford Mustang .
Ford Mustang: Built at site of closed Ford Michigan Casting Center (1972–1981). Opened as a Mazda plant; known as AutoAlliance International from 1992 to 2012. Ford Lio Ho Assembly: Zhongli District, Taoyuan: Taiwan: 1973 2,332 Ford Focus Ford Kuga Ford Focus Active Joint venture 70% owned by Ford and 30% owned by Lio Ho Group. Ford Lio Ho Engine
Today, segments of the old Covington Pike still exist, but are mainly dead ends. Singleton Parkway was built in the 1970s from Austin Peay to Egypt Central Road, and was extended north to Millington in the 1980s.
The offerings from Shelby American were expanded in 1966 to include an optional automatic transmission, and Shelby famously built special edition GT350s for Hertz. Hertz was a Ford subsidiary at the time, and when the cars were returned by Hertz to Ford they were re-sold to the public as the " GT350H ".
In 2005, Carroll Shelby built his very first modern Masterpiece CSM:00001 V6 Shelby Mustang CS6 and #01 V8 to prove to Ford that he could still build high-performance cars. Its V6 produced 380 hp, making it faster than Ford's 300 hp V8. Because Ford thought the CS6 would hurt Ford Mustang V8 sales, Ford told Shelby to go with the 500 hp V8 instead.
Map showing the route of US 64 in downtown Memphis. US 64 enters Tennessee on the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge in Memphis. The route shares the bridge with Interstate 55 (I-55) and US 61, US 70, US 78, and US 79. The route traverses several streets in Memphis before becoming a rural divided highway in eastern Shelby County.
A ceremony was held the following day at Shelby Farms in Memphis, providing further details of the project. [4] The facilities will be constructed at the 4,100-acre (1,700 ha) Memphis Regional Megasite, also known as the West Tennessee Megasite, which was designated as an industrial site in September 2009.