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Eleanor owners on here - 2/14/2005 6:54:47 PM   
dazzahughesuk


 

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Status: offline 		Anyone lucky enough to own a Ford Shelby Mustang GT500.

This is one of my most loved cars since the film, so the film had a big part in this car making it more popular.

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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 3/3/2005 6:05:58 PM   
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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 3/3/2005 6:44:15 PM   
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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 3/6/2005 2:19:42 AM   
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Here is a link of a video of one, its the third one down on the left.. It's in AVI formant.

http://gt3000.com/videos.htm

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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 3/6/2005 2:59:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		i want the super snake gt 500e, 725 hp wooohoooo hell yeah thats a car lol.

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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 3/6/2005 5:18:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		That guy builds those right down the road from me, maybe 15 minutes. Would like to visit his shop someday! Sweet cars!!!!

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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 3/11/2005 5:31:08 AM   
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ORIGINAL: LearjetMech

That guy builds those right down the road from me, maybe 15 minutes. Would like to visit his shop someday! Sweet cars!!!!



WOW Unique Performance is 15 minutes from you house dang!!! If i were you i would go hang out across the street. hehe lol.

The cool thing about the SuperSnake version is that Unique Performance is going to only build 75 of them, i'm pretty sure thats what Unique Perf. says.

I saw Orange County Choppers(OCC's) Supersnake at SEMA(2004) this year. Its yellow black stripes. It was trade between OCC and Shelby.

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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 3/24/2005 5:25:59 PM   
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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 4/24/2005 5:33:20 AM   
William Robison



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The only Shelby Mustangs were the '66 and '67 models. And they were ALL GT350s. Carroll Shelby NEVER built a GT500.

The first GT500 cars were the 1968 models, Ford bought Shelby out effective with the end of the 1967 model year, all '68 and later GT350 cars were pure Ford products, Shelby had nothing to do with them.

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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 7/15/2005 6:22:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		that's funny to me because I have seen and driven a 1969 ford shebly gt 500.
weather Mr. Shelby had any thign to do with it or not is besides the point it says on the MFG plate customised by the Shelby CO.

and you might need to explain the adds for a 2005 shelby gt 500.

But I can't bragg that I own a shebly I only have a distant cousin
1969 Mach 1 all orignal just a little over 43 ,000 miles on her and 32 trophies to prove thats she is a winner. only been in one magazine but one's enough for me.

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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 7/15/2005 9:01:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry sir. While the GT 500 you rode in may have said "...customised by the Shelby CO." it was not anything done by Caroll Shelby. Maybe some woman named Shelby Jones decorated the rear view mirror with some artistically applied finger nail polish. If Caroll Shelby had done it the legend would have said "Shelby American."

Shelby wanted out, and he got out. Part of the agreement with Ford was that his name would not appear anywhere either in the car or in the advertising beyond an reference to the "Tradition" of Caroll Shelby.

The 1968 model cars were the first that had the federally mandated exhaust emission controls, Shelby had tried to keep the performance with the emission strangled engines and the power was not there with the 289/302 engines, and he felt the handling with the heavier 428 engine was unacceptable. The 1967 GT-350 was the last of the Shelby cars.

Ford did put the 428 engine in the car, and called it the GT-500. The GT-500 with its emission controlled engine, was about as fast in a straight line as the 1967 GT-350, but on a twisty road the Shelby version GT-350 would blow the GT-500 off. The handling of the GT-500 was every bit as bad as Shelby thought it would be. And the 1968 GT-350 was a slug. Once you got the speed it would handle well enough, so long as you didn't need power to drive you through a turn.

The only Ford powered cars Shelby had anything to do with after the end of the 1967 production year was a batch of AC/Cobra 427 cars he had not been able to sell by the end of 1967, He had collected the parts to assemble them, but hadn't been able to sell them. Around 1985 or so he got the bright idea to put them together, which he did. But they were all sold as 1967 cars, that way he got around the EPA and the exhaust emission requirements.

Again sir, to repeat. There are NO Shelby Fords titled 1968 or later.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SHELBY GT-500!

Sorry.

Bill.

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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 8/21/2005 4:40:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, there were GT-350's GT-500's and GT-500 KR's. I have a GT-500KR in the gargage and a phone book thick registry of ALL of the Shelby cars and believe me there are GT-500's in there.

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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 8/21/2005 5:00:14 AM   
William Robison



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Status: offline 		Chris:

Of course there are GT-500 cars in the registry, but not one of them was made by Shelby American. All the GT-350 and GT-500 cars from the 1968 model on were purely Ford built cars. None of them are real Shelbys, no matter whether the owners of the real ones let the Ford owners play in the sand box or not.

Only the 1965, 1966, and 1967 models were made by Shelby American. There were no 1967 or earlier GT-500 cars. Owners of all the 1968 and later cars, both GT-350 and GT-500 are just "Wanna-be" Shelby drivers - their cars are just fancied-up Ford Mustangs. A different trim package. A Mach One with a different paint job. Not a Shelby, sorry.

To repeat:

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SHELBY GT-500!

Bill.

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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 8/21/2005 5:03:28 AM   
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RE: Eleanor owners on here - 8/21/2005 5:26:26 AM