Shelby GT Mustang found after sitting in garage for over 40 years

[97RangerXLT]

With less than 9,000 miles on it...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/o...term=0_a5ea9c36a5-f13af1b55e-396754745#!BrZLq



AJ

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

What a waste. I would have drove it into the ground.

Richard

 

[97RangerXLT]

Agreed. it would have been the highest mileage Shelby GT Mustang out there

AJ

 

[tmcalavy]

Sweeet! Only thing better is the GT350 and your choice of booty babes to hold the passenger seat down.

 

[90longbed]

Agreed. it would have been the highest mileage Shelby GT Mustang out there

AJ

I'm with you guys...... cars are meant to be driven.....thats one of my dream mustangs.... the others would be a gt500E and a 65-66 gt350R

 

[JackD]

What a waste. I would have drove it into the ground.

Richard

I agree. I read the original Yahoo article and the owner sounds quite strange. Apparently he got it in 1969 and stopped driving it in 1973 and just kept it in the garage after that, until he died this year. But he did maintain it all that time. Strange.
Still, his garage looks a lot like my garage (which my friend once said looks like a real life collection of redneck jokes), except my garage has even more junk in than his, and is missing the awesome classic car.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Hardly a waste, if he drove in the ground it would have been crushed and gone decades ago.

It is nice someone kept them around for those of us that were not around yet when they were in their prime.

 

[96Indyram]

Sweeet! Only thing better is the GT350 and your choice of booty babes to hold the passenger seat down.

How is a smallblock gt350 better than the 428CJ gt500?
Just curious is why I am asking. I would love to own any of them!

Sad thing is..it would have been a better "barn find" if it had KR behind the GT500.

I still never liked the hood with all the triangles cut it in (ugly)....but I guess it was function over form

 

[racsan]

thats sweet! anyone see the 429 on "fast n loud" this week? they also freshened up a '72 and put it on ebay, think the ebay one sold for 40K. the '72 wasnt anything special, just a 302, green, automatic. but the 429 was awesome! the plug changes and valve adjustments every so often would be a pain, but the fun while driving would be worth it! be neat to do a side by side with todays "best" mustang with the classic car on todays better radial tires and see who wins the race.

 

[tmcalavy]

very simple popeye

How is a smallblock gt350 better than the 428CJ gt500?
Just curious is why I am asking. I would love to own any of them!

Sad thing is..it would have been a better "barn find" if it had KR behind the GT500.

I still never liked the hood with all the triangles cut it in (ugly)....but I guess it was function over form

Very simple, man. Pull the barn find out of the barn into the sunlight and park the GT350 from Bullitt right next to it...I'll take the GT350 any day, just because McQueen drove it, raced it and endorsed it. The GT500 was a powerhouse gas hog with overdone styling IMHO. Not everyone agrees, but okay with me.

 

[Mac]

McQueen drove a '68' 390 powered GT in Bullet. Neighbor I graduated with bought a new GT500KR convert when he finished college. got a job as a teacher so wasn't worried about getting drafted. The 429 never was a good street car, never meant to be. About the same for the stock 428's. Today's six bangers Mustang will give the 428's good run for the money.
Dave

 

[tmcalavy]

Wow, didn't know that the Bullitt stang was 390 powered...figured it was a highly modified Boss 302 or somethin.' But if a genie popped out of my Jack Black or beer bottle and offered me my dream car, I'd take it faster than you could say Get My Chain.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Very simple, man. Pull the barn find out of the barn into the sunlight and park the GT350 from Bullitt right next to it...I'll take the GT350 any day, just because McQueen drove it, raced it and endorsed it. The GT500 was a powerhouse gas hog with overdone styling IMHO. Not everyone agrees, but okay with me.

The old GT350 is a better road/handling car, it whas Carrol's baby. The 500 was Ford's idea to get more money, neat but kind of a worthless car in reality. As they got newer they both got more overdone IMO.

Mcqueen drove a '68 Mustang GT, the Bosses didn't come out until the facelift in '69.

 

[JohnnyO]

McQueen drove a '68' 390 powered GT in Bullet.

True.
The biggest engine in a standard Mustang in 1967 until late 1968 when the 428CJ was available was a 390 which the Mustang in Bullitt had. It was a 390 GT with all the badging removed. Shelby GT-500 Mustangs in 1967 and early 1968 had Q-code 428 Police Interceptor engines, with dual quads on the '67. 1968 GT-500's had the same engine with a single four barrel until the R-code 428CJ was introduced, then the Shelbys got those too. FWIW, 1967 GT-350's got the 289 Hi-Po and 1968 GT-350's got the standard Mustang 302 4 barrel which was not a hi-performance motor but most (not all) had a Shelby intake that replaced the standard Ford intake and gave a few more horsepower. 1968 models are a little screwy because there was a UAW strike that halted production for a while. This is why some '68 Shelbys have round driving lights and some have rectangular ones and there are a handful of 1968 Q-code 428 Mustangs out there. They were supposed to be converted to Shelbys but due to the strike were sold as regular Mustangs.

Sorry to run on.

 

[bocefas]

I followed it up the road (it was on a flatbed) a few weeks ago....it might have less than 9000 miles on it, but when you put them on 1/4 mile at a time, it's evident, and I would imagine that's why the smog equipment was removed...I've lived in Centre Hall all my life, just up the road from this guy's place. It probably was wrecked at least once, they did discolse on the auction site that 70-75% of the paint was original, so there you go. It's nice I guess, but far from mint. And with all of those scoops and spoliers and whatever grafted onto it, it's really just plain old ugly...