1966 SHELBY GT 350 
Genuine Shelby listed in the Shelby American World Registry
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1966 SHELBY GT 350

Genuine Shelby listed in the Shelby American World Registry Fully documented history since new Very attractive price ! French registration title Chassis n° SFM6S2160 Areal master stroke by Lee Iacocca, the Ford Mustang will remain one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of the motorcar, both from a marketing and commercial point of view, with record profits for the American firm. Statutory, reliable and efficient, the pony car ticks all the boxes to the point of quickly attracting the attention of the Texan driver Carroll Shelby. He soon entered the car in competition, winning three SCCA Production B titles in the mid-1960s. Taking full advantage of this success in competition, Shelby began to build Mustangs that were modified and then homologated by Ford and marketed by several of the brand’s distributors. The first of its kind was the Shelby GT 350, which appeared in 1965, equipped with a modified version of Ford’s 4.7-liter small block V8 (289 ci) developing 306 hp. Produced at the beginning of May 1966, our example was used as a company car by Jim Riddle, a close collaborator of Carroll Shelby, before being sent to a Ford dealer in Huntington Beach, California. It was then presented to two other dealers of the American brand (Carter Auto Transport in Newark, New Jersey, then Paul Carey Ford in Decatur, Georgia), and was acquired and registered some time later by its first owner, Adolph Szewczyk. From Georgia, where it resided for a few years, it moved to neighboring Florida in March 1987 where it was registered to a certain Michael Vacco Jr. Three years later, a French collector bought it from Mustang Classics (Pompano Beach, Florida) for the sum of $33,000 and kept it for nearly twenty years in the Paris region. It was on this occasion that it was registered for the first time in the Hauts-de-Seine region and that it benefited from a racing preparation (roll bar, buckets, harness, kill switch, fire extinguisher, etc.) in order to illustrate itself in the French VEC Championship. Its PTH of time is joined in the historical file (date of delivery: February 24, 1997). In 2009, Claude Dubois, a well-known figure in the world of historic competition, former 24 Hours of Le Mans driver and Shelby, De Tomaso and Chrysler importer for Belgium, authenticated the car after a complete inspection. It will then change hands one last time in January 2010. Put back in its original configuration at the beginning of the year, our Shelby GT350 wears its traditional Wimbledon White color with two wide Guardsman Blue stripes. The buckets have been replaced by the original seats and the black rear seat that was fitted when the car left the factory in 1966. Remnants of the competition, it has kept its 100 liters FIA tank, its side exhausts and its superb American Racing 15 inches aluminum wheels (the original ones will be delivered with the car). This car starts at the first turn of the key and is ready to deliver on the road or the track, depending on the future owner. It will require some expenses to perfect its behavior, including a front end and brake adjustment, as its engine coupled to a mechanical gearbox and its rear axle with limited slip differential are just asking to propel the car to speeds that are now prohibited.

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1966 SHELBY GT 350

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