Featured Auction - 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Fastback

Carroll Shelby, the renegade Texan who built and sold the legendary 289 Cobra, had the idea to apply the Shelby touch to Ford's hot, new Mustang. It was a match made in heaven.

Shelby took out the grille and put a pair of high-beam lights in the cavity, rear lights were replaced by rectangular units, and the air scoops were punched into the side coves, ahead of the rear wheels. The first Shelby Mustang - the GT350 - arrived in 1965 powered by a modified version of Ford’s 289ci (4.7-litre) small-block V8 producing 306bhp. The running gear was appropriately up-rated to cope with the GT350’s increased performance, incorporating front disc brakes, a stronger Ford Galaxie rear axle, Koni adjustable shock absorbers and alloy wheels. Outwardly there was little to distinguish Shelby’s GT350 from the standard product apart from a pair of broad ‘racing’ stripes down the body centreline. On the open road there was, of course, no comparison. When the factory introduced a 390ci ‘big-block’ V8 option on the Mustang for 1967, Shelby went one better, installing Ford’s 428ci (7.0-litre)355hp Cobra Jet V8 to create the GT500, one of the great, iconic muscle cars of the 1960s.

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