Test Driving Revology Cars’ Shelby G.T. 350 Replica

This side-by-side pits an original Hertz-era Shelby GT350 against a brand-new one, a genuine continuation car from Revology Cars, the only company Ford has ever licensed to build reproduction Mustangs from scratch. With an all-new steel body, a modern Coyote V8, and Carroll Shelby’s own blessing, it’s the closest thing to buying a factory-fresh 1965 GT350 six decades later.

Over the last few years weâ€™ve seen all manner of custom Mustang builds come across our desk (or computer screen as it may be). From home built cars to high-end pro shops, and everything in between, weâ€™ve laid our eyeballs on a lot of Mustangs stuffed with trick suspensions, Coyote 5.0L engine swaps, interiors nicer than our living room, and more. Builds like these donâ€™t come cheap, and for many of us theyâ€™re more or less aspirational projects that we can come away with ideas for our own Mustang project. Wheels, stance, paint treatments, and so forth are all things weâ€™ve seen copied from the big buck builds, which is why we feature such cars from time to time both here on Mustang-360.com and in the print edition of Mustang Monthly.

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Every Mustang restomod shop eventually runs into the same wall: no matter how good the fabrication work is, it’s still technically a modified used car, built on a title that started life as somebody’s driver decades ago. One company in Florida decided that wasn’t good enough and did something almost nobody else in the industry has legal permission to do, build a brand-new, first-year-legal 1965 Mustang from a blank steel body, with Ford’s own blessing. That’s exactly the car sitting in this comparison shot next to an original Hertz Shelby, and the resemblance isn’t a coincidence. So what does it take to get Ford itself to sign off on reproducing its own most famous pony car?

The Only Company Ford Actually Licensed

Revology Cars was founded in 2015 by Tom Scarpello, a 17-year Ford veteran who ran the company’s Special Vehicle Team from 1998 to 2004, the same division responsible for cars like the SVT Cobra, and who got tired of telling enthusiasts Ford had no plans to reissue the original Mustang. Revology became the first company ever officially licensed by Ford Motor Company to build brand-new reproduction Fords, and one of the few worldwide also licensed directly by Carroll Shelby Licensing to build genuine Shelby GT350 continuations. A 2015 federal law made it all legally possible, capping these low-volume “certified replica” builders at 325 cars per year using new bodies rather than salvaged donor cars.

New Steel, Old Soul, Modern Coyote Power

Under the skin, a Revology GT350 is a genuine continuation car rather than a kit-built clone: an all-new stamped-steel body built to 1965-1966 proportions, a stiffened modern chassis structure, a current Ford Coyote V8, and suspension and brakes engineered around how people actually drive a car today rather than how they drove one in 1966.

What This Side-by-Side Is Really Measuring

That gap is exactly what this comparison test is built to measure, pitting a brand-new, Ford-and-Shelby-blessed GT350 against an original Hertz-era car to see just how far sixty years of engineering has closed the distance between vintage character and modern capability.

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