For its 50th anniversary in 2017, Shelby American didn’t throw a retrospective – it built the most powerful Super Snake the company had ever sold to the public, with an optional supercharger pushing past 750 horsepower. Here’s what separates the base and optional power packages, what the hardware underneath had to do to handle it, and how a limited 500-unit run turned a legendary one-off into something you could actually order.
Shelby American is turning 50 years old in 2017, and it’s celebrating the only way it knows how: building a badass hot rod!
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Shelby American picked a strange way to celebrate turning 50 years old in 2017 – not with a museum tour or a retrospective book, but by building the most powerful Super Snake the company had ever offered to the public. The name “Super Snake” goes back to 1967 and a single, one-off Shelby GT500 built for testing, a car so extreme Carroll Shelby himself reportedly couldn’t sell it at the intended price. Fifty years later, Shelby American turned that one-off legend into a 500-unit production run – and pushed the horsepower number well past anything the original ever saw. How much further could they actually take it?
Two Power Levels, One Very Different Ceiling
The 50th Anniversary Super Snake starts with a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 using a Ford Performance blower for a baseline 670 horsepower – already well beyond what a stock Mustang GT makes. Step up to the optional Whipple or Kenne Bell supercharger, though, and output climbs past 750 horsepower, backed by either a 6-speed manual or automatic transmission. Shelby backed that power with hardware to match: a custom Ford/Shelby-spec suspension package and Wilwood brakes running 6-piston front and 4-piston rear calipers with a Shelby-designed cooling duct system, built to handle repeated hard stops rather than just one dyno pull.
What That Kind Of Power Actually Does
On paper, the numbers back up the hardware: 0-60 mph in 3.5 seconds, 1.2g on the skidpad, and a quarter mile in 10.9 seconds – supercar territory from a car that started life as a Ford dealership Mustang GT. Production was capped at 500 units, all built at Shelby American’s Las Vegas facility, with the base package starting at $36,795 on top of the donor Mustang GT’s price, putting a finished car’s total cost near $70,000. For a company built on the idea of taking a production Ford and making it faster than Ford ever intended, the 50th Anniversary Super Snake is about as pure a distillation of that mission as Shelby has built.
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sorry but it isn’t a Shelby really its a mustang with power and Shelby badges that’s all a Shelby is either a cobra ,Daytona cobra those ist series mustangs you know the 65-73 ones Shelby could of built one of those and then put that engine in them there are enough companies building those type of bodies they did here was put power in that horrible looking 2017 model mustang and then badged and stickered it up as a Shelby a discrase to the original Shelby cars
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