Drive Flashback: 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 (Road & Track)
This story originally appeared in the February 1967 issue of Road & Track.
One thing about Carroll Shelby and his cars, they aren't subtle. Sneaky, maybe. Sly, perhaps. Deceptive, undoubtedly. But not subtle. His latest entries in the automotive lists — the Shelby Mustang GT350 and GT500 — are typical. They started with a Mustang fastback, re-styled the extremities, added a roll bar, put in shoulder straps, stuck on some trim and it became a different car. It looks something like a racing car, yet it isn’t. It also has something of the flavor of a luxurious Grand Touring machine, but it isn’t quite that either. It’s different from anything Shelby has offered before — less brutal, less purposefully ugly, less stark performance—and yet it offers an abundance of those virtues for which Shelby’s products have become famous. It goes, it handles and it stops.
