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Motor racing legends Carroll Shelby and Phil Hill were both recipients of the seventh annual Eagle One-Shav Glick Award for distinguished contributions to motor sports in California. The award was presented by car care products company Eagle One during pre-race ceremonies at the NASCAR Auto Club 500, at California Speedway on February 26, 2006.

The award which was voted upon by a panel of national and California motorsports writers is in honor of the recently retired, long-time motorsports writer for the Los Angeles Times, Shav Glick.

Shav Glick had this to say about the two racing legends, "Hill and Shelby are both products of that era in the 1950s and 60s that has become known as the glory years of sports car racing, a time when ingenuity and industry were rewarded in the racing fraternity. Both were winners and both carried the California trademark with great success on the world racing scene.”

Did the Ford Mustang GT 390 Fastback really whip the Dodge Charger 440 in Hollywood’s most famous car chase of all time? Or was this epic battle between two of America’s legendary muscle cars a fix? These are some of the questions that have been hotly debated by car enthusiasts since the debut of the 1968 film Bullitt, which featured a Ford Mustang GT 390 Fastback duelling with a Dodge Charger down the jagged hills of San Francisco.

In the end, the Mustang with less horsepower and less torque, caught and overtook the bigger car, forcing this bad boy to dart off the road and explode into a ball of flames.