Shelby American Is Building Its Own Ford Mustang GT350

Ford may no longer have the rights to build a GT350, but Shelby American has their own solution — with an 810-hp supercharged V-8.

Sixty years ago, Shelby American proved that the Mustang could be a true race-ready performance car when it released the GT350 and GT350R. Shelby-branded Mustangs have returned a few times since, both as OEM-spec Ford Performance models and as custom builds by Shelby American — but the historic GT350 and GT500 nameplates were typically reserved for the finished Ford products over the past two decades. That changes with the latest GT350, which is a Shelby build, rather than a Ford one.

The last car to wear the GT350 name was an official Ford Performance product sold new at dealerships, but a split between Ford and Shelby eventually led Ford to replace that product with the Dark Horse for the latest Mustang generation. That left the GT350 badge available to the modern iteration of Shelby American, and now the company has brought the nameplate back with an official Mustang build of their own …

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(photo credit: Shelby American)