Shelby American puts the ’67 GT500 Super Snake into production – IOTW Report

Shelby American puts the ’67 GT500 Super Snake into production

Sunday, 20 May 2018, 12:00 MJA Uncategorized 22

FOX= As the saying goes, “better late than never.”

That’s certainly applicable to the 1967 Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake, which Shelby American will finally produce as a limited edition continuation model.

During the 1960s, Shelby built a demonstration Mustang for Goodyear powered by a lightweight 427-cubic-inch race engine lifted from a Le Mans-winning Ford GT40, branding the car the Shelby GT500 Super Snake in the process. It was thought to be producing 520 horsepower upon its debut, which was a crazy figure for the time.

Seeing the opportunity, Shelby dealer Don McCain was keen to get a run of the cars built but the expense of the project meant only the one demonstration model came to life. It last went up for sale in 2013, with its buyer parting with $1.3 million to secure it.

Now, Shelby will build 10 more examples for collectors, each priced from $249,995.  more here

 

22 Comments on Shelby American puts the ’67 GT500 Super Snake into production

  4. Holy Shit! In the 70s I used to have a neighbor that collected Ford Shelby’s. I wonder if he’s still around, and still collecting. At $250K, a little out of my financial range.

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  5. Ha – did you see that the new royal couple drove off in a classic 60s Shaguar, which had been retrofitted to electric!?

    A ton of money in building classics. A hugely popular Porsche ‘classic’ is a guy who takes an early 90s 911 and rebuilds it into an early 70s style, selling for $300-500k. I’ll stick with a new one please.

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  9. I’ve seen some recent examples of relatively mundane modern era vehicles, that are cheap to own today and should only go up in value.

    Mercury Marauder, early 4-Runners and Toyota Trucks, Geo Tracker/Suzuki Samuri, 1st gen Dodge/Ram trucks, OJ Bronco/GMC Jimmy, Mitsubishi Starion/Dodge Conquest, among many others. The trick is finding a correct one in good condition. Even a Yugo in running condition is worth about as much as the day it was first sold. They won’t make them again!

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  11. Old oaks, also the Cbevy Astro vans, which you can beat the hell out of, tradesmen loved them. And the Mustangs from late 80s to 1993.

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  15. I sure hope Shelby has re-engineered the crappy suspension of the original. There’s only so much you can do with a live axle.

    I had a 1985½ Mustang SVO (that was an “official” model year) that I bought new, one of only 438 made. Lots of fun! Wish I’d had the wherewithal to mothball and store it, but I had to sell it in 2002.

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  16. Wow! A knock-off — Hey! let’s make it a line of knock-offs — of an icon from the still, oh SO! relevant, era when hawt, OH SO! HAWT!, baby boomers were too poor to vote themselves other people’s money. To appeal to young and trendy baby boomers who vote themselves other peoples’ money.

    So, when did Disney buy Shelby?

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  19. The first (and last) time a lipstick lesbian cornered me in a nightclub restroom and tried to stick her tongue down my throat reminds me of Fastbacks.
    Her father collected them and she was driving a ‘65 at the time. . . I never looked at Mustangs the same since. 🤮

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  20. Someone in the comments on the article complained about the environmental impact. These will be sold, kept under wraps, driven ridiculously low miles, and sold at Barrett Jackson auction for millions of dollars 💵.
    No one will race them or even break them in.

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