The hits just keep on coming for the embattled Shelby American Automobile Club. News has quieted down about the contention between Caroll Shelby and the SAAC just in time for Ken Eber, the club’s national director, to steer the organization right into another lawsuit. This time, it’s New Jersey Motorsports Park suing to recover nearly [...]
As has become the tradition in recent years, Barrett-Jackson will be auctioning off various “firsts” of upcoming production cars. Last year, the very first Corvette ZR1, Dodge Challenger, and Shelby GT500KR all went across the block, and earlier this month it was announced that the first retail 2010 Camaro would be available to the highest [...]
Why wait for the Detroit Auto Show to see the 2010 Shelby GT500 when Ford’s driving the thing around Detroit essentially undisguised? Jalopnik’s Ben Wojdyla had the convertible version roll right up next to him at a stoplight in Royal Oak, which gave him the opening he needed to grab a bunch of good shots [...]
In the hustle and bustle of SEMA last week we missed the announcement that Shelby Automobiles will be sponsoring the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motorspeedway in March. The race will actually be lengthened to 427 miles and will be called the ‘Shelby 427′. We think it would be more historically appropriate [...]
Big engine, small car. This simple idea was such a successful formula for Carroll’s Cobras in the 1960’s that it still lives on today. In addition to numerous kit cars available, Shelby offers his own version that comes with a CSX4000 chassis number. It’s up to the owner to decide what engine to put in [...]
Are they really “one-of-a-kind,” as stated by Kruse on its official auction page, if there are 25 of them going up for auction on the same day? That’s not to say getting one of the 500 Hertz Shelby Mustang GT-H Convertibles (sheesh, that’s a mouthful!) that were built in 2007 is a bad thing, but [...]
The Shelby Daytona Coupe is the embodiment of classic American motorsports. The only problem is that putting a genuine Daytona Coupe in the garage is nearly impossible. There are only a handful in the world, and the price tag would be in the millions of dollars (if you could find an owner willing to part [...]
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When the vintage racers hit the track for the 2008 Kohler International Challenge at Road America this weekend, the Shelby Automobiles Racing Team will be officially represented for the first time since the late 1960s. Ford is one of the event sponsors and is [...]