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SPECIAL SHELBY MUSTANGS FEATURE WORDS: KEVIN SHAW PHOTOS: ADAM P PHOTOGRAPHER YOU’VE HEARD THE NAME, NOW MEET THE FLEET THAT MAKES UP THE LOCAL SHELBY LINE-UP! he name ‘Shelby’ is synonymous with Shelby Mustang, the GT350, was born, followed in high-performance Fords and has been 1967 with the GT500, both of which are now highly Tsince the mid ’60s when Carroll Shelby’s collectable cars. AC Cobras were the stuff of legends, as was Shelby later moved on to other ventures with other his involvement with the GT40s. However, it was the manufacturers, but the GT500 model was revived Shelby Mustangs that launched the Shelby brand with his return to Ford in the early 2000s. The new into the mainstream automotive world 55 years Shelby GT500, revealed in 2006, powered by the ago. Spawned in the era of the muscle car, the 1964 5.4-litre modular V8 fitted with four valve heads and Mustangs were the first of the mid-sized sporty and an Eaton supercharger, was conservatively rated well-handling — for the era — performance cars. at 500hp, significantly more than the 300hp of the Targeted at young people, they were the ‘I’ve got to Ford Mustang GTs, and successfully relaunched the have it’, ‘I need one now’ icon of the time. Ford–Shelby relationship. Other manufacturers soon followed with the In 2007, the Shelby GT-H was again built for the Camaro, Firebird, Challenger, and Barracuda, but Hertz group, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the the Mustang was the first — hence the term ‘pony legendary GT350H ‘rent a racer’ car of the ’60s and car’.
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