Sixties fastbacks built for SCCA racing and rental counters face supercharged modern track machines, all wearing the same snake badge.
11967 Shelby GT500The first GT500, introduced for 1967 with a 428 cubic-inch V8 under a restyled fiberglass nose.1000pts
21965 Shelby GT350Shelby American's first Mustang, a white 1965 fastback with blue stripes and a 289 V8 tuned to 306 hp for SCCA racing homologation.897pts
31969 Shelby GT500The last classic-era GT500, restyled for 1969 with a longer fiberglass front end and NACA hood ducts; unsold cars were retitled as 1970 models.621pts
42007 Shelby GT500Ford SVT's 2007 revival of the GT500 name, with a supercharged 5.4-liter V8 rated at 500 hp.621pts
52016 Shelby GT350RThe lighter R version of the S550 GT350, with carbon-fiber wheels, no rear seat and a stiffer track setup.538pts
62006 Shelby GT-HA 2006 Hertz rental revival of 500 black coupes with gold stripes, followed by a convertible run in 2007.538pts
71965 Shelby GT350RThe stripped competition version of the 1965 GT350, built in a run of about three dozen cars, that won SCCA B-Production national titles from 1965 to 1967.538pts
82020 Shelby GT500The 2020–2022 GT500, with a supercharged 5.2-liter V8 rated at 760 hp and a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission.538pts
91968 Shelby GT500KRThe mid-1968 King of the Road version of the GT500, powered by Ford's 428 Cobra Jet V8.440pts
101966 Shelby GT350HA 1966 GT350 built for the Hertz rent-a-car fleet, about 1,000 of them, most painted black with gold stripes.323pts
112008 Shelby GT500KRA 2008–2009 40th-anniversary revival of the King of the Road, with its supercharged V8 raised to 540 hp.323pts
122013 Shelby GT500The 2013–2014 GT500, whose supercharged 5.8-liter V8 made 662 hp and gave it a Ford-claimed top speed of 202 mph.323pts
13Modern Shelby Super SnakeShelby American's high-output package for new Mustangs, introduced in 2007 and offered for 2011 in packages of roughly 660 hp and 750 hp.0pts
142016 Shelby GT350A track-focused Mustang sold from 2015 to 2020, built around the 5.2-liter flat-plane-crank Voodoo V8 rated at 526 hp.0pts
Photo credits
- 1967 Shelby GT500 — MrWalkr, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 1965 Shelby GT350 — Jeremy from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0
- 1969 Shelby GT500 — Michel Curi, CC BY 2.0
- 2007 Shelby GT500 — Ssu, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2006 Shelby GT-H — Sicnag, CC BY 2.0
- 1965 Shelby GT350R — Sicnag, CC BY 2.0
- 2020 Shelby GT500 — Syntaxlord, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 1968 Shelby GT500KR — Sicnag, CC BY 2.0
- 1966 Shelby GT350H — Sicnag, CC BY 2.0
- 2008 Shelby GT500KR — sv1ambo, CC BY 2.0
- Modern Shelby Super Snake — Calreyn88, CC BY-SA 4.0
