The new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Rae Segerstrom, center, flanked by her husband, Ted Segerstrom, and Kathy Ireland, supermodel-turned author, entrepreneur and philanthropist, during the opening of the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The grill of a Shelby at the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Rae and Ted Segerstrom show David Frazer, right, CEO of the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation, around the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Kathy Ireland, supermodel-turned author, entrepreneur and philanthropist, chats with Ted Segerstrom during the opening of the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ted Segerstrom chats with Kathy Ireland, supermodel-turned author, entrepreneur and philanthropist, chats with during the opening of the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Kathy Ireland, supermodel-turned author, entrepreneur and philanthropist, chats with Ted and Rae Segerstrom during the opening of the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Rae Segerstrom’s 1956 Ford Thunderbird at the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A 1968 1/2 Shelby GT500KR convertible joins other cars at the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Visitors during the grand opening celebration of the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Visitors during the grand opening celebration of the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Rae Segerstrom’s 1956 Ford Thunderbird at the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Kathleen Ireland, supermodel-turned author, entrepreneur and philanthropist, speaks during the opening of the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Kathleen Ireland, supermodel-turned author, entrepreneur and philanthropist, speaks during the opening of the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A special 50th Anniversary 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra during the opening of the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ben and Stacey Wagoner check out a 1969 Shelby GT500 convertible at the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A 1999 Shelby Series 1 joins other cars at the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Shelby GT500s during the opening of the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The opening of the new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center and Museum in Irvine, CA, on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The SSEC features a premier collection of over 83 rare, highly-valued collector Shelby vehicles owned Ted and Rae Segerstrom. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The new Segerstrom Shelby Event Center in Irvine showed off its collection of cars and spaces on Thursday, Jan. 20, during a grand opening.
Philanthropists Ted and Rae Segerstrom (of the legacy Orange County farming family that also developed South Coast Plaza and the Segerstrom Center of the Arts) have turned a place to park their collection of more than 80 vintage cars designed by Carroll Shelby into a showroom the public can tour, as well as an event center that can rented for weddings, corporate shindigs and such. But they have also turned it into a way to help others.
All the revenue from visitors and events will be donated, they have said, to the Carroll Shelby Foundation, Shriner’s for Children Medical Center – Pasadena and the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation.
Find out more, as well as hours and tour schedules, at segerstromshelbyeventcenter.com.
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