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Written by Ollie Kew
It"s Shelby"s turn to get in on the continuation car game. And with not one, but two reborn classics. We"re talking about ten more 1960s-spec Mustangs, and four more Series 1 sports cars from the 1990s to be titled Series 2. Obviously. Let"s uncover the Mustang first. The ten continuations are faithful recreations of one of the best-looking Mustangs ever: the one-off 1967 GT500 Super Snake. Its descendants aren"t all-new cars, but rather original 1967 Mustang bodyshells that"ll be built with an official Shelby VIN. The Super Snake was a mad creation: developed as a tyre-test bed for Goodyear, Shelby then toyed with the idea of turning its one-off into a limited production run. Because the 520bhp race-spec V8, front disc brakes, limited-slip differential and stiffer suspension was so expensive at the time, the idea was canned for being unprofitable. Despite Caroll Shelby himself taking the wheel of the prototype and posting a 170mph top speed, proving the Super snake"s pedigree, the Mustang remained a one-off, which fetched $1.3m at auction last time it changed hands.
Date written: 18 May 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 11885
It"s Shelby"s turn to get in on the continuation car game. And with not one, but two reborn classics. We"re talking about ten more 1960s-spec Mustangs, and four more Series 1 sports cars from the 1990s to be titled Series 2. Obviously. Let"s uncover the Mustang first. The ten continuations are faithful recreations of one of the best-looking Mustangs ever: the one-off 1967 GT500 Super Snake. Its descendants aren"t all-new cars, but rather original 1967 Mustang bodyshells that"ll be built with an official Shelby VIN. The Super Snake was a mad creation: developed as a tyre-test bed for Goodyear, Shelby then toyed with the idea of turning its one-off into a limited production run. Because the 520bhp race-spec V8, front disc brakes, limited-slip differential and stiffer suspension was so expensive at the time, the idea was canned for being unprofitable. Despite Caroll Shelby himself taking the wheel of the prototype and posting a 170mph top speed, proving the Super snake"s pedigree, the Mustang remained a one-off, which fetched $1.3m at auction last time it changed hands.
Date written: 18 May 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 11885
