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01-30-2009, 12:38 AM
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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. Lately another legend has been echoing around the INTERNET, whatever happened to James Douglas Morrison's 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500?
I began to be taken in by The Doors music and Jim Morrison's excellent lyrics while 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 (http://shopping.msn.com/specs/the-lizard-king-was-here-the-life-and-times-of-jim-morrison-in-alexandria-virginia/itemid501586836/?itemtext=itemname:the-lizard-king-was-here-the-life-and-times-of-jim-morrison-in-alexandria-virginia).
I have been a fan of the Doors Music (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=ivan+katz+the+doors&aq=f) 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 (http://www.shelbymustang.com/morrison.php) in an article written about Morrison's car by Bret Matteson (http://www.countswebdesign.com/BretMattesonsShelbyMustangs/). 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 (http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-07-11-morrison-questions_N.htm)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 (http://forum.johndensmore.com/lofiversion/index.php/t1778-50.html).
Whatever the truth may be, Jim Morrison was buried on July 7, 1971 and no autopsy was ever performed. You can 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 remained unsolved!
http://www.examiner.com/x-547-Sports-Car-Examiner~y2009m1d29-Jim-Morrisons-Lost-Mustang-by-Drivin-Ivan (http://www.examiner.com/x-547-Sports-Car-Examiner%7Ey2009m1d29-Jim-Morrisons-Lost-Mustang-by-Drivin-Ivan)
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. Lately another legend has been echoing around the INTERNET, whatever happened to James Douglas Morrison's 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500?
I began to be taken in by The Doors music and Jim Morrison's excellent lyrics while 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 (http://shopping.msn.com/specs/the-lizard-king-was-here-the-life-and-times-of-jim-morrison-in-alexandria-virginia/itemid501586836/?itemtext=itemname:the-lizard-king-was-here-the-life-and-times-of-jim-morrison-in-alexandria-virginia).
I have been a fan of the Doors Music (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=ivan+katz+the+doors&aq=f) 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 (http://www.shelbymustang.com/morrison.php) in an article written about Morrison's car by Bret Matteson (http://www.countswebdesign.com/BretMattesonsShelbyMustangs/). 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 (http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-07-11-morrison-questions_N.htm)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 (http://forum.johndensmore.com/lofiversion/index.php/t1778-50.html).
Whatever the truth may be, Jim Morrison was buried on July 7, 1971 and no autopsy was ever performed. You can 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 remained unsolved!
http://www.examiner.com/x-547-Sports-Car-Examiner~y2009m1d29-Jim-Morrisons-Lost-Mustang-by-Drivin-Ivan (http://www.examiner.com/x-547-Sports-Car-Examiner%7Ey2009m1d29-Jim-Morrisons-Lost-Mustang-by-Drivin-Ivan)