1968 Shelby Gt

Oleh Donald

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In 1965, Mustang was busy setting the automotive market on its ear. With a fresh face and an arm’s length option sheet, buyers responded in droves, snapping up 100,000 in the car’s first four months. Even before they realized what a hit they had on The Ford Mustang is an American automobile, originally based on the Ford Falcon compact named after the Southern Methodist University Mascot. The first production Mustang, a white convertible with red interior rolled off the assembly line in Dearborn With Ford celebrating the Mustang’s 50th anniversary this year, it seems only appropriate to take a gander at a vintage model that enjoys both an iconic status and a resale value that’s far and above its original MSRP back in 1968. While the Mustang Following on the success of the Shelby GT350 Mustang, Shelby American introduced an even more the functional hood scoop and the exaggerated side scoops. For 1968, Shelby American upped the ante even further, introducing the new GT500 KR, for “King Just before his jaunt to Three Hills, Mike got word that a certain local 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby G.T. 500 KR was for sale and was probably going to make its rounds at the get-together. It was a car Mike was well aware of, having drooled over the a 2015 Mustang that Galpin Auto Sports and Henrik Fisker took the wraps off of at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show. The team said that the design is “unmistakably inspired by specialty pony cars of the 1960s and early 1970s, including the 1968 shelby gt500 .

Watch as Car and Track host Bud Lindemann heaps praise on a (then) brand new 1968 Shelby Mustang 500KR after giving it a "thorough wring out" on television's first syndicated car show. Car and Track was the first syndicated television show involving car tests. The first time I laid eyes on this car I knew I wanted to own it. The original owner was my mechanics teacher at Sutherland secondary. I had always wanted a rare Ford Mustang. It wasn’t until long after high school that I was able to eventually purchase Yes, yes, we know—we wouldn’t have compared a Corvette with a Mustang back in 1968, because the Ford’s primary rival was the Chevrolet Camaro. But we thought it would be fun to see how the antecedents of the current Corvette and GT500 shaped up. EXP, in the case of the 1968 Ford Mustang you see above, stands for Experimental. You see, this is one of the cars used by the Shelby American team in the development of a long list of classic Shelby Mustang models. The car, powered by a 390-cubic-inch V8 .