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"...we were indeed on tundra as technically defined, not the pretend stuff of sportscasters covering football at Green Bay’s Lambeau field. Shelley had more earned the right to carry the words Tundra and Yukon on her flanks than had modern Toyotas or GMCs, most of which would never drive this far north. We were here, she had made it, and I was proud."
-- From Scott Sensing's book "Travels with Shelley"
This
stock 1952 Chevy named Shelley has driven 30,000 miles for charity, earning her the
distinction "the truck with a heart."
In 2000 she drove round-trip from Tennessee to Alaska's north slope.
In 2001, she drove historic Route 66 from Chicago to San Bernardino. One day she
will do a
"Travels with
Shelley" promotional book tour.
Shelley raised a combined $40,000 for the American Cancer Society and the
National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Scott Sensing (Shelley's owner) did the
Alaska drive as a cancer benefit after his dad's death from cancer. A sponsor of
that drive, Ralph White, then asked Scott and Shelley to drive Route 66 for
multiple sclerosis.
You may have heard of their journeys from TV and radio interviews, and
publications like Road & Track, the Tennessee Magazine, Wall
Street Journal, and countless newspapers nationwide.