Unique 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Super Snake sold at auction for record $2.2 million

FoxNews.com/auto ^ | Jan 12, 2019 | Gary Gastelu | Fox News

[atc23]

Mario said the original 289 motor didn’t even go fast enough to charge the battery LOL

[vigilence]

What made the cammer great were the massive heads and it was a great engine for unlimited type racing in all motorsports from drag racing, drag boats, NASCAR etc. It was a great response to the Chrysler 426 Hemi. But due their size, scarcity and limited specialty parts as a result they had a relatively short run as pony cars ruled the era and were unable to make them fit.

[fso301]

Great for what was probably a boomer seller but the boomer that bought it better find another boomer to sell it to because later generations of buyers aren't going to place the same value on a car they had no emotional connection with from their youth and young adult years.

[Carriage Hill]

The fire extinguisher is a nice interior touch.

[husky ed]

The 427SOHC (cammer) was never ran at Le Mans by Ford in their GT40 program. The 427FE side-oiler was the engine ran in the GT40's. Basically the same engine designed for the Galaxy NASCAR program.

Ed

[AFreeBird]

$5,000.00 dollars!!!

Holy crap. Talk about a ROI..

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Posting before thinking. Guilty.

I started as a new engineer at $10k in 1973.

[KC Burke]

Sometimes we see these statistics adjusted for today’s dollars and don’t put the smell test to it.

I bought a Porshe 914, new, the first year they came out for $3,897. Think of it, LOL

[VietVet876]

Forty two grand median family income in ‘67 seems way high to me. I would question the source.

[VietVet876]

The $42,000 number was adjusted for inflation to a year or two ago. The actual average family income in 1967 in 1967 dollars was $7,200 according to a 1969 Social Security report I found online.

[Boiler Plate]

When I think of Hi Performance I always think of White Wall Tires!

[atc23]

Thanks, Ed

[atc23]

I thought the Ford 427 had hemi combustion pockets as well (?)

[painter]

No Shelby coupes were built, as far as I know.

Actually Shelby American built one in 1967. It was called the Green Hornet.

[painter]

But Was Too Much of a Wuss to Drive It.

That car was a twin supercharged 427 in a 2500lb car. Probably producing 750 plus horse power.

[vigilence]

Yes, they did with two huge (for the time) valves. Then Chrysler went all in with four valves per cylinder, dual sparkplugs and dual distributors. Horsepower wars...those were the days! Of course the horsepower they’re getting out of today’s engines is phenominal.

[wally_bert]

I like it too and was at one time a 67 Cougar owner.

The plan is to get another one someday.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That’s what I thought, but I blindly quoted it. It has to be I. 2018dollars, not 1967 dollars. Mea culpa.

[Balding_Eagle]

Back then food took nearly twice as much of the average family’s income as it does today.

[Loud Mime]

That 427 wedge motor took the first five places at the Daytona 500 in 1963, when stock cars were actually stock cars.