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[StrayShadow]

I have an old poster of Jim Morrison standing in the desert
in front of a Shelby gt500 with a coat draped over his shoulder.
Is this the infamous Shelby he owned?

Sorry no pic ... poster is rolled up and stored away in my attic somewhere!

When will the movie come out and is there any word on the search?


07SGT2591
Kevin

[shelbymustang.com]

morrisonsmustang, on Jan 4 2009, 05:31 PM, said:

Many people may know that the Door's lead singer, Jim Morrison, once owned a 1967 GT500.  What you might not know is that this was the only car he ever had registered in his name.  For this wild child, to whom material things meant nothing, this car was different.  It was a gift from Jac Holzman of Elektra records.  While Jim left wrecked rental cars all over the country, he kept up with the Nightmist Blue GT500, which he had dubbed "The Blue Lady".

We know the car was delivered in late 1967.  A stripe delete car, close set driving lights, and parchment interior.  We have the VIN code for the car, and verification should be pretty easy if it ever found.

It vanished in October 1969.  There are a WEALTH of people with stories of what happened to it, but none of them are ever backed up with anything.  So we are setting off on a quest to find "The Blue Lady".  Along the way, we want to document why the Shelby cars hold such mystique for their owners.  Why this would have been the one possession that Jim really cared about.

Anyone who has information, photos, stories, or anything to contribute, it would be welcomed.  If the conspiracy theories are true, and someone has it in a warehouse waiting for the right moment to spring it, now might be the time!  Warning though, we will completely vet anything before it ends up in the movie.

Thanks!
L. Christian Mixon
Producer
Morrison's Mustang- A Vision Quest to find "The Blue Lady".
http:/www.myspace.com/morrisonsmustang

L. Christian Mixon:

"That article's been around for years and nothing has come out of it".



I'm the one the wrote who the article and I'm the one that owns the original registration for Morrison's car.

I would think if your a serious producer and investigator you would "follow-up" on that article.

Bret Matteson
www.shelbymustang.com

[93extxdps]

Did anyone else read in latest Mustang Monthly that this car was found?

Dp

[morrisonsmustang]

93extxdps, on Jul 23 2009, 11:42 AM, said:

Did anyone else read in latest Mustang Monthly that this car was found?

Dp

Sadly the article on "Top 10 Dream Mustangs" was a bit misleading if you read it quickly.

The article said that "the car's Department of Motor Vehicle info has recently surfaced" (http://www.mustangmo...angs/index.html ).

That info has hardly "Recently Surfaced".  A Door's collector site had the registration for sale for years for about 20 times what it was worth.  While doing the background on the documentary we were able to obtain the VIN for the car fairly easily.  Just takes talking to the right people and knowing where to look.


I have been in the collectible automobile business for 20 years, and I have seen all sorts of strange things.  Many people who suddenly come into money go out and buy one of every car they dreamed about and then stick them in storage and forget them.  There was a big story in Hot Rod a few years ago about a load of Yenko Camaros and Novas along with tons of rare parts found in sea freight containers while going through an estate.

Jim's Mustang could be sitting in a storage locker in Idaho where the storage company went out of business, the owner died and it just hasn't been torn down.  I had a client find an original '40 Ford convertible under just those circumstances.

The economy put a dent in our production budget, but we are soldiering on.  Keep your fingers crossed!

L. Christian Mixon
Producer
Morrison's Mustang- A Vision Quest to find "The Blue Lady".
http:/www.myspace.com/morrisonsmustang

[morrisonsmustang]

StrayShadow, on Jun 5 2009, 12:43 PM, said:

I have an old poster of Jim Morrison standing in the desert
in front of a Shelby gt500 with a coat draped over his shoulder.
Is this the infamous Shelby he owned?

Sorry no pic ... poster is rolled up and stored away in my attic somewhere!

When will the movie come out and is there any word on the search?


07SGT2591
Kevin

I've seen the poster.  It was an artist rendition that was photo-realistic and pretty cool.  The researchers jumped all over it pointing out that it wasn't a photograph and that roads didn't have "White Side Stripes" in the state at the time, etc, etc.  

It's still a wonderful poster, but not an actual photo of the car.  The sole photographic evidence so far remains the unreleased film HWY.

Thanks!

93extxdps, on Jul 23 2009, 11:42 AM, said:

Did anyone else read in latest Mustang Monthly that this car was found?

Dp

Sadly the article on "Top 10 Dream Mustangs" was a bit misleading if you read it quickly.

The article said that "the car's Department of Motor Vehicle info has recently surfaced" (http://www.mustangmo...angs/index.html ).

That info has hardly "Recently Surfaced".  A Door's collector site had the registration for sale for years for about 20 times what it was worth.  While doing the background on the documentary we were able to obtain the VIN for the car fairly easily.  Just takes talking to the right people and knowing where to look.


I have been in the collectible automobile business for 20 years, and I have seen all sorts of strange things.  Many people who suddenly come into money go out and buy one of every car they dreamed about and then stick them in storage and forget them.  There was a big story in Hot Rod a few years ago about a load of Yenko Camaros and Novas along with tons of rare parts found in sea freight containers while going through an estate.

Jim's Mustang could be sitting in a storage locker in Idaho where the storage company went out of business, the owner died and it just hasn't been torn down.  I had a client find an original '40 Ford convertible under just those circumstances.

The economy put a dent in our production budget, but we are soldiering on.  Keep your fingers crossed!

L. Christian Mixon
Producer
Morrison's Mustang- A Vision Quest to find "The Blue Lady".
http:/www.myspace.com/morrisonsmustang

[falcongtho3]

The short paragraph in Mustang Monthly (Aug. '09 issue) states that not only has the Morrison GT500 been found in New Mexico, but also states that the car has been sent to Total Performance Inc., in Witchita. KS. for restoration. This is not a top 10 dream car article, but a specific note about the 'Blue Lady'.

[morrisonsmustang]

falcongtho3, on Jul 30 2009, 03:39 AM, said:

The short paragraph in Mustang Monthly (Aug. '09 issue) states that not only has the Morrison GT500 been found in New Mexico, but also states that the car has been sent to Total Performance Inc., in Witchita. KS. for restoration. This is not a top 10 dream car article, but a specific note about the 'Blue Lady'.

I see the note on their website, but there doesn't seem to be any additional material.  If this is the case, then I guess the search would be over.  I'd like to now how it was identified and what the details are before we mark it "Case Closed".

Thanks
Christian Mixon

[morrisonsmustang]

falcongtho3, on Jul 30 2009, 03:39 AM, said:

The short paragraph in Mustang Monthly (Aug. '09 issue) states that not only has the Morrison GT500 been found in New Mexico, but also states that the car has been sent to Total Performance Inc., in Witchita. KS. for restoration. This is not a top 10 dream car article, but a specific note about the 'Blue Lady'.

Thanks again for the info, we have some calls out and are working on verifying.

[shelbymustang.com]

morrisonsmustang, on Jul 30 2009, 09:54 AM, said:

Thanks again for the info, we have some calls out and are working on verifying.

The car has NOT been found!

I own the documents on Morrison's car and the car at Total Performance is not Morrison's car.

The owner of the car called MM and they printed an article suggesting it was the car.

It is not the car and the VIN has been verified as not being the car.

Bret Matteson

www.shelbymustang.com

[morrisonsmustang]

shelbymustang.com, on Jul 30 2009, 06:56 AM, said:

The car has NOT been found!

I own the documents on Morrison's car and the car at Total Performance is not Morrison's car.

The owner of the car called MM and they printed an article suggesting it was the car.

It is not the car and the VIN has been verified as not being the car.

Bret Matteson

www.shelbymustang.com

I spoke to Total Performance this morning and will hopefully speak to the car's owner soon.

Sadly this car has been "Found" about 20 times so far.  Each time we have gone to verify it, the suspect car was not Jim's.  If all goes well we will get a chance to inspect the car at Total Performance and see.  I won't discount it until I have had the chance to make a visual inspection and verify all the VIN locations.

I have long felt that when or if it turns up, it will have been in storage somewhere.  There have been many rare cars that were in a storage facility for years with no one knowing their significance.

[shelbymustang.com]

morrisonsmustang, on Jul 30 2009, 11:43 AM, said:

I spoke to Total Performance this morning and will hopefully speak to the car's owner soon.

Sadly this car has been "Found" about 20 times so far.  Each time we have gone to verify it, the suspect car was not Jim's.  If all goes well we will get a chance to inspect the car at Total Performance and see.  I won't discount it until I have had the chance to make a visual inspection and verify all the VIN locations.

I have long felt that when or if it turns up, it will have been in storage somewhere.  There have been many rare cars that were in a storage facility for years with no one knowing their significance.

Do you have both the Ford and Shelby VIN's?

[morrisonsmustang]

shelbymustang.com, on Jul 30 2009, 07:50 AM, said:

Do you have both the Ford and Shelby VIN's?

Yes, we have both VINs.  The Total Performance car is sadly, not Jim's car.

Thanks!
L Christian Mixon
Producer
Morrison's Mustang - A Vision Quest to find "The Blue Lady"
myspace.com/morrisonsmustang

[DubbsFaris]

this car will never be found...it was scrapped....but, hey, everyone needs their white whale to chase through life...

Its not a question of if it is possible it is laying around somewhere, the question really is, Is it worth all this time invested to even find it?  

I would be somewhat disappointed if I found out my car belonged to that burnout....I love his music, hate his poetry if you call it that...and his complete disregard and many challenges against stationary objects make the car probably unrepairable at some point by 1960's standards...

[lawdude]

DubbsFaris, on Nov 27 2009, 04:05 PM, said:

this car will never be found...it was scrapped....but, hey, everyone needs their white whale to chase through life...

Its not a question of if it is possible it is laying around somewhere, the question really is, Is it worth all this time invested to even find it?  

I would be somewhat disappointed if I found out my car belonged to that burnout....I love his music, hate his poetry if you call it that...and his complete disregard and many challenges against stationary objects make the car probably unrepairable at some point by 1960's standards...

Only thing worse than Morrison's poetry is your analogy.

Hope it's found in storage somewhere with lyrics to his last unpublished song in an empty whiskey bottle under the seat.

Edited by lawdude, 27 November 2009 - 01:25 PM.

[morrisonsmustang]

DubbsFaris, on Nov 27 2009, 01:05 PM, said:

this car will never be found...it was scrapped....but, hey, everyone needs their white whale to chase through life...

Its not a question of if it is possible it is laying around somewhere, the question really is, Is it worth all this time invested to even find it?  

I would be somewhat disappointed if I found out my car belonged to that burnout....I love his music, hate his poetry if you call it that...and his complete disregard and many challenges against stationary objects make the car probably unrepairable at some point by 1960's standards...

To write Morrison off as a "Burnout" is pretty lazy.  Jim made very clear decisions, picked a path and stuck to it.  That's why the Doors were the first US band to play sports arenas as part of a regular tour.  People left Doors concerts feeling as though they had witnessed something beyond the ordinary, something touching the divine.  That wasn't because they were watching some hapless burnout drift along.

The Doors turned down very lucrative offers that required them to change their sound to something more "Mainstream".  They waited until they found someone who understood their vision, and it is probably not a coincidence that the same man was the one who bought Jim his GT500.

It's always easy to throw insults from the sidelines, but unless you have a slate of gold albums, you really aren't in a position to cast stones.

But that's just my opinion.

L Christian Mixon
Producer
Morrison's Mustang - A Vision Quest to find "The Blue Lady"
myspace.com/morrisonsmustang

[QuickSilverShelby]

lawdude, on Nov 27 2009, 02:24 PM, said:

Hope it's found in storage somewhere with lyrics to his last unpublished song in an empty whiskey bottle under the seat.

THAT.......would be a beautiful thing, now wouldn't it.  Dare to dream.

QSS

[DubbsFaris]

morrisonsmustang, on Nov 27 2009, 03:33 PM, said:

To write Morrison off as a "Burnout" is pretty lazy.  Jim made very clear decisions, picked a path and stuck to it.  That's why the Doors were the first US band to play sports arenas as part of a regular tour.  People left Doors concerts feeling as though they had witnessed something beyond the ordinary, something touching the divine.  That wasn't because they were watching some hapless burnout drift along.

The Doors turned down very lucrative offers that required them to change their sound to something more "Mainstream".  They waited until they found someone who understood their vision, and it is probably not a coincidence that the same man was the one who bought Jim his GT500.

It's always easy to throw insults from the sidelines, but unless you have a slate of gold albums, you really aren't in a position to cast stones.

But that's just my opinion.

L Christian Mixon
Producer
Morrison's Mustang - A Vision Quest to find "The Blue Lady"
myspace.com/morrisonsmustang

Wow, you know, I was born the day he died, and grew up very interested in his life and really looked into his life.  I know pretty much every nuance to classic rock, from Pink Floyd random facts, to the name of Led Zepplin's first pilot, to crazy details of Lynard Skynard's ridiculous reasons for their tragedy, and I gotta say, even though I know every lyric Morrison has published, and I think about him every July 3rd, calling him a burnout is not an insult as much as a calculated asessment of him.  Did he not pass out during several concerts, crash many cars under heavy influence, and show up completely hammered at a family member's funeral? I dont know, maybe in your family and friends you would call that stable and normal, but I dont.  I dont doubt it was calculated and intentional, when I go out and get drunk or whatever I do, I usually plan on doing it.  

And hey, Im not casting stones, I never said squat about the Doors....but allow me to toss a couple pebbles:

1. Jim would have been far less notable without Robbie and Ray....they were the musical genious behind the Doors.
2. Yeah, the Doors turned down lucrative offers...but they sure didnt turn down a car commercial and several other sell out deals.
3. (and this is the most important) Jim had a Shelby and couldn't drive for      

But hey, My Pink Floyd may be your Yanni...music is a taste, and not one we all have to share....I listen to all my favs cuz I dig their music, not their spiritual beliefs or enlightenment....Im a musician, and know many....you would not hold them in such high esteem if you had to be around them all the time.  Most are egomaniacs or self absorbed at the very least...

Hmm, I can't wait to see how these comments settle the anger from my previous comment....

But hey, maybe your documentary will change my mind....Ive been reading your 2 year old search waiting for something....
Do you even have any interests in Shelbys? or are you just here for the free nuts and beer?

And Lawdude....what Analogy?  Morrison was 50 pounds overweight in '71...I was talking about him!

[morrisonsmustang]

DubbsFaris, on Nov 27 2009, 09:00 PM, said:

Wow, you know, I was born the day he died, and grew up very interested in his life and really looked into his life.  I know pretty much every nuance to classic rock, from Pink Floyd random facts, to the name of Led Zepplin's first pilot, to crazy details of Lynard Skynard's ridiculous reasons for their tragedy, and I gotta say, even though I know every lyric Morrison has published, and I think about him every July 3rd, calling him a burnout is not an insult as much as a calculated asessment of him.  Did he not pass out during several concerts, crash many cars under heavy influence, and show up completely hammered at a family member's funeral? I dont know, maybe in your family and friends you would call that stable and normal, but I dont.  I dont doubt it was calculated and intentional, when I go out and get drunk or whatever I do, I usually plan on doing it.  

And hey, Im not casting stones, I never said squat about the Doors....but allow me to toss a couple pebbles:

1. Jim would have been far less notable without Robbie and Ray....they were the musical genious behind the Doors.
2. Yeah, the Doors turned down lucrative offers...but they sure didnt turn down a car commercial and several other sell out deals.
3. (and this is the most important) Jim had a Shelby and couldn't drive for      

But hey, My Pink Floyd may be your Yanni...music is a taste, and not one we all have to share....I listen to all my favs cuz I dig their music, not their spiritual beliefs or enlightenment....Im a musician, and know many....you would not hold them in such high esteem if you had to be around them all the time.  Most are egomaniacs or self absorbed at the very least...

Hmm, I can't wait to see how these comments settle the anger from my previous comment....

But hey, maybe your documentary will change my mind....Ive been reading your 2 year old search waiting for something....
Do you even have any interests in Shelbys? or are you just here for the free nuts and beer?

And Lawdude....what Analogy?  Morrison was 50 pounds overweight in '71...I was talking about him!

I get a lot of "Hey man, he was just a doper who got lucky" comments, and I'm sorry if I grouped you unfairly.

To answer a few of the questions you put forth.  

It's hard to take "Burnout" as anything but an insult when you use it in the sentence "I would be somewhat disappointed if I found out my car belonged to that burnout".  If your car did, it would at least triple in value overnight.

Certainly the "Doors" were a "Perfect Storm" of sorts.  They all had to come together at the right time for it to happen as it did.  But to be fair, Robbie and Ray had little success before Jim and very little after.

The car commercial you refer to is the Buick "Light My Fire" campaign that ran in 1970.  This was a the last straw that had Jim leave the Doors, not officially but the rest of the band knew he wasn't coming back.  The deal was signed without his consent while he was in Paris with Pam (prior to his moving there permanently before he died).

After reading Friedrich Nietzsche, Blake ("the path of excess, leads to the palace of enlightenment"), and becoming obsessed with the Odeipus complex as an analogy for the death of the "Old Mythologies", he set a course that included what he called a "Long, Prolonged, Derangement of the Senses".

What he didn't account for, and what would have been clear to any physician now, was the presence of a rare metabolic condition that causes an irregular metabolism of alcohol.  I have read and heard 100 account of "Jim drank a fifth of whiskey, was just fine, then 10 minutes later he was passed out pissing himself".  The condition causes the individual to be able to consume a large amount of alcohol with no effect and then it dumps it all into the bloodstream at once.

As for me, I've been in the entertainment business since I was 9.  A SAG actor for 14 years, and I shoot a lot of music videos.  I know the musician mentality well.  And while there are some world class A-Holes, there are some very passionate artists as well.  I have bought and sold vintage automobile most of my life and for a while owned a vintage car dealership where we had the chance to sell quite a few historically significant cars.  Shelbys are near and dear to my heart.

But the doc is not so much about just finding the car as it is showing why people, driven by passion, desire such cars.  The late 1960s was a unique and turbulent time when a movement of change and the desire for something better spread around the world.  I hope to give people a glimpse of this.

If it's not your thing, that cool, but I just found it a bit off-putting to hear some say "I would be somewhat disappointed if I found out my car belonged to that burnout"  But I guess you are not alone.  We sold a 1922 Stanley Steamer that belonged to one of the victims of the "St. Valentines Day Massacre", and the previous owner told no one because he thought it detracted from the purity of his beloved steam car.  To each their own I suppose.  (for the record, it sold for 5 times actual value because of the historical significance.

L Christian Mixon
Producer
Morrison's Mustang - A Vision Quest to find "The Blue Lady"
myspace.com/morrisonsmustang

[lawdude]

DubbsFaris, on Nov 28 2009, 12:00 AM, said:

And Lawdude....what Analogy?  Morrison was 50 pounds overweight in '71...I was talking about him!

[DubbsFaris]

morrisonsmustang, on Nov 28 2009, 08:42 AM, said:

I get a lot of "Hey man, he was just a doper who got lucky" comments, and I'm sorry if I grouped you unfairly.

To answer a few of the questions you put forth.  

It's hard to take "Burnout" as anything but an insult when you use it in the sentence "I would be somewhat disappointed if I found out my car belonged to that burnout".  If your car did, it would at least triple in value overnight.

Certainly the "Doors" were a "Perfect Storm" of sorts.  They all had to come together at the right time for it to happen as it did.  But to be fair, Robbie and Ray had little success before Jim and very little after.

The car commercial you refer to is the Buick "Light My Fire" campaign that ran in 1970.  This was a the last straw that had Jim leave the Doors, not officially but the rest of the band knew he wasn't coming back.  The deal was signed without his consent while he was in Paris with Pam (prior to his moving there permanently before he died).

After reading Friedrich Nietzsche, Blake ("the path of excess, leads to the palace of enlightenment"), and becoming obsessed with the Odeipus complex as an analogy for the death of the "Old Mythologies", he set a course that included what he called a "Long, Prolonged, Derangement of the Senses".

What he didn't account for, and what would have been clear to any physician now, was the presence of a rare metabolic condition that causes an irregular metabolism of alcohol.  I have read and heard 100 account of "Jim drank a fifth of whiskey, was just fine, then 10 minutes later he was passed out pissing himself".  The condition causes the individual to be able to consume a large amount of alcohol with no effect and then it dumps it all into the bloodstream at once.

As for me, I've been in the entertainment business since I was 9.  A SAG actor for 14 years, and I shoot a lot of music videos.  I know the musician mentality well.  And while there are some world class A-Holes, there are some very passionate artists as well.  I have bought and sold vintage automobile most of my life and for a while owned a vintage car dealership where we had the chance to sell quite a few historically significant cars.  Shelbys are near and dear to my heart.

But the doc is not so much about just finding the car as it is showing why people, driven by passion, desire such cars.  The late 1960s was a unique and turbulent time when a movement of change and the desire for something better spread around the world.  I hope to give people a glimpse of this.

If it's not your thing, that cool, but I just found it a bit off-putting to hear some say "I would be somewhat disappointed if I found out my car belonged to that burnout"  But I guess you are not alone.  We sold a 1922 Stanley Steamer that belonged to one of the victims of the "St. Valentines Day Massacre", and the previous owner told no one because he thought it detracted from the purity of his beloved steam car.  To each their own I suppose.  (for the record, it sold for 5 times actual value because of the historical significance.

L Christian Mixon
Producer
Morrison's Mustang - A Vision Quest to find "The Blue Lady"
myspace.com/morrisonsmustang

Interesting thought on the value...I guess to SOMEONE, it would be more valuable....to me, I would prefer one not wrecked so much...but I can see your point....for sure.

You are right about Robby and Ray....really something how music can turn 4 good musicians into masterful, and dare I say sometimes magical entity.  I think the greatest example of that is Led Zepplin.  

I can understand you reading my comment as an insult....but you have to understand me first...I like burnouts....their more fun!

BTW- Im actually the same way with alcohol, so I know well what you talk about...Im a very good drunk...dont hardly change at all, till I hit a point...luckily my tolerance is pretty high and Im a big guy to boot...I usually get full long before I get drunk....

Which leads me to my segue to Lawdude...

lawdude, on Nov 28 2009, 09:15 AM, said:

Anytime my man, anytime!