Description
You cant keep a good man down. When Carroll Shelby was instructed by his doctors to give up motor racing in 1960, he was damned if he was going to keep away from the sport. If he couldn’t drive competitively he could at least build cars for other people to drive. So it was that he established Shelby American Inc. in Los Angeles for exactly that purpose. It wasnt long before Carroll Shelby was making his name all over again. In 1962, Shelby American took a British AC Ace roadster, crammed a Ford V8 under its shapely bonnet, and produced the first of the AC Cobras. Following the successful AC Cobras, Shelby was approached by Ford to develop a hot version of its new Mustang. For 1965 he developed the legendary GT350 and its lightweight racing derivative, the GT350R. In 1967 the GT350 was supplemented by the GT500 with a 428ci V8. After this the stock Mustang began to have more performance even though Ford made the cars more comfortable and heavier. New safety and exhaust emissions regulations in 1968 blunted their performance. Despite Cobra badging and the new King of the Road designation for the GT500KR, power and performance were down. At the end of 1967 production was transferred to Michigan. Production stopped in 1970 after only 10,825 Shelby Mustangs of all years had been built. This is a book of contemporary road and comparison tests, specification and technical data, model introductions, buying a used car, driver’s views.
With a total of 216 fully illustrated pages. SB
