Telstar Mustang-Shelby-Cobra Restorations & Museum

Jerry and his wife Mavis are the owners of Telstar Motors in Mitchell, South Dakota. They deal exclusively in Mustang and Shelby restorations. In addition, Jerry and Mavis are the founders of the first Shelby and Mustang museum containing at least one Shelby from every year and model of production. "Many people have talked about starting a Mustang and Shelby museum, but we actually did it," Jerry says with a smile. The museum resulted from their constantly growing personal collection which started in 1979. While building the museum they completed two personal restorations each year. People have come from all over the world, including Sweden, South Africa, Turkey, France, Japan and Australia to see this collection. A remodeled showroom, including temperature and humidity control and a sound system playing muscle-car era music, was completed before the museum's opening in June of 1990. Jerry and crew restored every car, from placing the bodies on a frame jig to ensure perfect alignment to hand painting instrument needles. Every bolt in these classic cars has been removed, inspected, cleaned and rethreaded or replaced. All the Cobra and Shelby titles have been autographed by Carroll Shelby.