Posts Tagged: Shelby
Shelby American had not built an all-new concept car in roughly a decade, so expectations pointed toward more boost and a bigger number. Instead the company hand-built new fenders and quarter panels, stretched the rear track nearly four inches, and fitted adjustable coilovers. Read on for why a firm built on drag strip legend suddenly cared this much about cornering, and what happened to the concept afterward.
Coy Harvey opened a garage door in Lubbock, Texas expecting ordinary clutter and found a 1966 Shelby GT350 buried underneath years of garden tools and Christmas decorations. It’s not just any GT350 — it’s a rare “carry-over” example, built during the transition between the 1965 and 1966 model years using earlier-spec components. Harvey’s own background restoring classic Mustangs meant he knew exactly what he’d found the moment he saw it.
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.
Everyone knows the Corvette skipped a model year and the Daytona’s wing was built for speed — but fewer people know that wing height was also a trunk-lid compromise, or that a handful of Dodge dealers once built the only production car to wear factory Cragar wheels. This rundown digs past the four facts every muscle car list repeats to the trivia that actually surprises collectors. Read on to find out which 1970 Super Bee variant was rarer than the Six Pack.
A supercharged Camaro ZL1, a Hellcat, a Shelby GT500, a Scat Pack, and a naturally aspirated Mustang GT lining up for a straight-line shootout is about as good as modern muscle gets. The forced-induction cars post the eye-catching times, with the ZL1 dipping into the 9s and the Hellcat and GT500 not far behind. But the Scat Pack and the Mustang GT, both running without a supercharger, close the gap by more than the horsepower numbers say they should. That’s the real story here.
A Mustang GT Premium walks into a Jacksonville Ford dealership and walks out wearing a Shelby badge, a supercharger, and a sticker price above $175,000. This 830-plus-horsepower Super Snake build raises an obvious question: does it actually deliver supercar performance in a genuinely usable American package, or is the badge doing most of the heavy lifting? Watch the full walkaround to decide for yourself.
A supercharged Hellcat Challenger, a numbers-matching Hemi Cuda, a bagged Scat Pack, and a Shelby-badged Mustang all line up on the same night in this Wheels compilation — and the results don’t go the way a spec sheet would predict. Viewers are still debating a 1967 Camaro that ran dead-on to its 11.52 index despite a rough burnout, and a Mustang that never got heat into its tires. Watch to see which pairings go old school’s way, and which don’t.
In 2013, Cobras, Daytona Coupes, and Mustangs rolled into the Shelby Convention to celebrate a legacy built on a wild bet: that American muscle could out-race Ferrari at its own game. Only six original Daytona Coupes were ever built, and the story of how they beat Europe’s best still pulls collectors together decades later. Read on to find out what made those six cars unrepeatable.
A Dodge Hellcat Charger and a Chevy ZL1 Camaro both rolled into Byron Dragway looking to take down the same Shelby Mustang in one night, and neither one could close the gap. The Shelby answered both challenges with trap speeds over 122 mph, leaving two of Detroit’s most hyped factory muscle cars searching for an explanation. Watch to see how close it actually got.
Carroll Shelby’s heart condition ended his racing career, but it never slowed down the second act that followed. From founding Shelby American in 1962 to shaping the Cobra, the Shelby Mustang, and later Dodge’s Viper program under Lee Iacocca and Bob Lutz, Shelby left his fingerprints on two rival American automakers at once. Read on to find out how one man’s name ended up on performance cars from both Ford and Dodge.
This 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback wears the GT500 look down to the stripes, but its VIN tells a more complicated story than the badge on the fender does. A 390-cubic-inch FE V8, Edelbrock heads, and a limited-slip 3.73 rear end back up the build, while a push-button C6 transmission has viewers picking sides in the comments. Watch to see the full walkthrough.
A phone call in 1966 about a yellow Charger sitting on a used car lot in Shelby, North Carolina started a story that kept one car in the same family for 40 years, 20 of them spent parked on a lift. It was the Charger’s very first model year, introduced with rotating hidden headlights that had not appeared on a Chrysler product since the early 1940s. Only 468 of the 37,344 cars built that year left with a Hemi.