Fast Days by Joel Jackson presents the unvarnished true history of one of the most unheralded groups in automotive performance engineering.  We were the people known as Chrysler-Shelby, Dodge-Shelby, Shelby American, Shelby Automobiles, Group SV, and many other names.   We were the designers, fabricators, mechanics, engine builders, crew chiefs, and test drivers that actually designed, built, and developed the automobiles.  We raced our nameless grand prix's without praise or glory across dry lake beds, on skid pads, drag strips, and high speed race courses in every part of the country.  We battled with steering, brakes, engines, transmissions, tires, wheels, shocks, springs, and chassis.   Fighting rain, heat, cold, wind, dust, wrecks, and sometimes each other.  We raced across the miles and the years, striving to achieve more than we did the last time.   Some did it for a paycheck, while others, conscious of their part in this epic we were racing through, savored the moments, the times to be remembered in the years ahead, these times that I call the FAST DAYS.