Posted on 01/13/2019 9:58:48 AM PST by ETL
A legendary Ford Mustang sold for a historic price at the Mecum Auctions event in Kissimmee, Fla., on Friday night when the bidding ended at $2,200,000.
That made it the most expensive Mustang ever sold at auction, and with good reason.
The Shelby Mustang 1967 GT500 Super Snake was a one of a kind prototype that Carroll Shelby had built for a tire test conducted by Goodyear.
He swapped out the GT500’s already potent 428 cubic-inch V8 for one of the 427 cubic-inch racing V8s from Ford’s Le Mans-winning GT40 and updated the rest of the powertrain and suspension to match.
The result was a Mustang coupe that could hit 170 mph and averaged 142 mph over 500 miles at a high-speed track in Texas where it was running on a set of Goodyear’s new whitewall Thunderbolt economy tires.
The initial plan was to build 50 of the cars for sale, but at an estimated double the price of a standard GT500 there weren’t enough takers and the sole prototype was sold for just $5,000.
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Not your fault. The writers love to quote numbers like the median family income for 1967 but are too ignorant or lazy to specify that their number had been adjusted to date for inflation. I suspect that laziness is the most prevalent journalistic affliction.
IIRC, they called the 427 cammer a semi-hemi
My father worked for Ford in the mid 60’s and I was very much aware of their racing programs.
Ed
I read the book: “Go Like Hell” Ford, Ferrari and Le Mans - (sic) Great book about the grudge between Ford and Ferrari and the battles at Le Mans.
Wasn’t the 914 just a repackaged VW?
That is probably too severe a description. Porsche designed it. Its body was assembled in the Karman plant. like the Karman Ghia, not on the VW beetle line. The six as by Porsche as were the first of the four cylinders but the fours then were made by the same plant that made the VWs. I think the final assembly was at the Karman plant. It was sold and serviced by Porsche/Audi, not by VW.
It did go downhill pretty fast in quality and by the third year was a shadow of the initial units.
Ed
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