Flat Out in a 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang

When Steve Beck was a teenager, he wanted a cool American car to take to his first big job interviewing as a mechanic. A friend offered to let him try out his -- a 1965 Shelby GT350. Smoke came from the engine and the water pump leaked, but Beck got halfway around the block and he knew he’d stumbled on something special. On his 18th birthday, he shelled out $900 for the now-legendary pony car, and he even got the job. “I got hired just because I drove it to the interview.”

Forty-three years later, the connection between man and machine has never been stronger. “I’ve had the car apart and together at least five times,” says Beck, now 61. “Every time I break it, it goes back together and it goes faster, quicker, easier to drive.”

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