GTP Cool Wall: 1967 Shelby GT500
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Sub zero without a doubt.
This was the bigger, badder version of the GT350. The fact that it had basically everything upgraded over a stock Mustang in low quantities makes it awesome, especially with his signature on the dash. When you see a Shelby, your hair stands up on your back. It turns head way more than any standard '67 Mustang ever will. Shelby's were ALWAYS performance cars.
The Eleanor thing kinda of ruins it, but if you can get past that, the original car was just plain badass. These things bring in a lot of money for a reason.
This was the bigger, badder version of the GT350. The fact that it had basically everything upgraded over a stock Mustang in low quantities makes it awesome, especially with his signature on the dash. When you see a Shelby, your hair stands up on your back. It turns head way more than any standard '67 Mustang ever will. Shelby's were ALWAYS performance cars.
The Eleanor thing kinda of ruins it, but if you can get past that, the original car was just plain badass. These things bring in a lot of money for a reason.
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Per the Wikipedia article on both the GT500 and the engine, it was rated at 335 HP, not 355 HP. The FE engine article has a citation for a statement that the actual output was over 400 HP, though as a print citation, I can't readily verify how strongly it's stated or what sorts of caveats there are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_FE_engine#428_Cobra_Jet
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Sub Zero both Stock and as Eleanor. I just love everything about the car, even if it isn't a 'true' Muscle Car, it sounds like one!
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Here's the same engine out of a 1970 car. Pulled 405/447 bone stock. Considering how that's how they rated the engines, if this isn't proof enough, then I don't know what is. Torque usually was rated close, it was the horsepower that got underrated.
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A lot of non-car people recognize "GT500". No explanation needed. On top of that, most people won't even approach you other than the occasional "nice car" or a head nod/hats off to you. If someone wants to talk to you about it, usually they have some kind of knowledge about the car, or are looking for more.
Old Mustangs make you look like a huge tool? That has got to be the funniest thing I've ever heard, if not the stupidest. I really don't agree. If that's the case, so 🤬 be it, at least I'll be enjoying the hell out of a car I find to be incredibly badass, as do a lot of others.
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Old Mustangs make you look like a huge tool? That has got to be the funniest thing I've ever heard, if not the stupidest. I really don't agree. If that's the case, so 🤬 be it, at least I'll be enjoying the hell out of a car I find to be incredibly badass, as do a lot of others.
Looking like a tool doesn't affect my enjoyment of a car. Remember what I daily drive.
As far as people recognizing the car, that's partially correct. Most people know a Shelby GT500 is a special car. Sometimes they also think they know that the car we're discussing is a Shelby Cobra GT500 "look there's the Cobra right on the badge! It's a Cobra!" or that they're all named Eleanor after Nick Cage's daughter from the missing 60 seconds of footage from National Treasure.
I've also heard BOSS 350 GT. The simple fact is that Ford used way too many monikers for this line of vehicle. BOSS, Mach 1, GT, Shelby, Eleanor, GT350, Cobra Jet, GT500 and that's just the first generation.
The existence of Mustang Cobras in the 90's does not help the aforementioned "Cobra" problem. I'm also often asked if my car is a "GT" Mustang which I assume is referring to whether or not it has a V8 or a V-err-I6.
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Yeah I must say I have heard some funky stuff out of people mouths beforeLooking like a tool doesn't affect my enjoyment of a car. Remember what I daily drive.
As far as people recognizing the car, that's partially correct. Most people know a Shelby GT500 is a special car. Sometimes they also think they know that the car we're discussing is a Shelby Cobra GT500 "look there's the Cobra right on the badge! It's a Cobra!" or that they're all named Eleanor after Nick Cage's daughter from the missing 60 seconds of footage from National Treasure.
I've also heard BOSS 350 GT. The simple fact is that Ford used way too many monikers for this line of vehicle. BOSS, Mach 1, GT, Shelby, Eleanor, GT350, Cobra Jet, GT500 and that's just the first generation.
The existence of Mustang Cobras in the 90's does not help the aforementioned "Cobra" problem. I'm also often asked if my car is a "GT" Mustang which I assume is referring to whether or not it has a V8 or a V-err-I6.
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hehehe, I bet you all know I'll say subzero. :3
It has racing stripes, which makes it cool for starters, but the fact it's a shelby mustang & that it's the first year of the GT500 I think are what puts it in subzero.
It has racing stripes, which makes it cool for starters, but the fact it's a shelby mustang & that it's the first year of the GT500 I think are what puts it in subzero.
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I was going by a Wikipedia article on the car itself, which said that the 1967 had the 428 Police Interceptor, and didn't quote a horsepower figure. So I looked elsewhere and came up with a Car & Driver article that said 355 HP.
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The PI motor made more torque than the stock 428 IIRC. There was also 2 variations of the PI engines. I read somewhere the first 50 GT500's had 427 Side Oilers (Cobra engine) in them and they were supposedly removed because they were too fast, clocking in at over 180mph in some cases. It wouldn't surprise me, since Carrol's own car was known to do 170mph.
That said, did you even watch that video?
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Confirmed. Apparently, 3 cars left Shelby's factory with 427 "Competition" Side Oilers. Aka 485 horsepower and 482 lb-ft of torque.
http://corvettes-musclecars.com/gallery2/v/al_ford/1967 Shelby GT500 Mustang Factory 427 Side-Oiler/
Might want to update the OP with the second engine.
That said, did you even watch that video?
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Confirmed. Apparently, 3 cars left Shelby's factory with 427 "Competition" Side Oilers. Aka 485 horsepower and 482 lb-ft of torque.
http://corvettes-musclecars.com/gallery2/v/al_ford/1967 Shelby GT500 Mustang Factory 427 Side-Oiler/
Might want to update the OP with the second engine.
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355 is about what it actually had. Refreshing bit of honesty in a decade where horsepower numbers could be and were overstated regularly by 100+ hp.
They were removed because the 427 was an actual race engine, and thus not really suitable for the buttoned down performance aspirations Shelby/Ford had in mind for the GT500 when they were designing it (compared to the barely restrained nature of the GT350). Just like why GM didn't put the ZL1 and L88 engine in much of anything unless you really wanted it. Too expensive, too impractical, and too finicky; even if the original prototypes with it were very fast for the time.
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There are, but they are extremely rare. A guy in here has one, red, 4-speed. The thing is immaculate and has to be the rarest, baddest-ass original muscle car I've been in. Spun the tires in third in not-spirited driving as it wears polyglass tires and you don't want to wrap a half-million-dollar car around a tree. Sadly, I didn't do the pictures for that car.
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