The ORIGINAL ELEANOR!!. This is one of the actual movie cars. There were 11 total production cars, of those , 8 were shells and 3 were actual running and driving cars. The 1967 Mustang GT500 stole the show in “Gone in Sixty Seconds,” the 2000 action hit starring Nicolas Cage.
Today Steeda, the Pompano Beach-based company unveiled the Steeda GT500, which, uses Ford’s 500-horsepower Shelby GT500 as its base. No signed numbers are provided in the press release, but given that the Steeda GT500 incorporates the company’s cold air intake, ECU tune, and pulley upgrade, we figure on the output being somewhere between 600 and 650 horsepower.
The folks at Shelby will take your $45,000 GT500 and for just $27,995, they’ll boost the engine performance via a Shelby supercharger upgrade, a Borla cat-back exhaust system and a cold air intake and then they’ll work on the handling a bit by dropping in a Shelby/Eibach coil over suspension to lower the ’stang a little over an inch-and-a-half and then by adding Shelby/Eibach sway bars to reduce the body roll.
The Nissan GT-R GT500 race car for the GT500 class of Japan's SUPER GT series got its first run on a race track less than a week after the unveiling of the production car.
Ford’s latest Bold Move is in the form of a new 30-second commercial dubbed ‘Germany’ that will debut on September 10th during the NFL season opener on FOX and CBS. The commercial opens with a White Shelby GT500 coupe being unloaded from a ship docked at a German port.
The limited-edition Ford Mustang Shelby GT muscle-car will go into production in January 2007. Only 4,000 to 10,000 of souped-up Mustangs will see the light.
Amy Boylan, the President of Shelby Automobiles Inc, said that the quantity of the parts and the retooling required pushed the price to the $28,000 . The total best case scenario price of around $72,000 dollars is worth it.
With the absence of the 2005 and 2006 SVT Mustang, the phase out of the SVT Focus and the abrupt halting of the next-gen Lightning truck development, I was left wondering what the Ford SVT (Special Vehicle Team) has up their sleeves with the recent GT500 about to be spotted on a road near you.
Advanced Product Creation and SVT program director Hau Thai-Tang calls the new GT500 \223The most capable Mustang ever.\224 And with 500 horsepower and 480 torques, it\222d better be. Basically, the Shelby\222s motor is a detuned version of the 5.4L blown meat-grinder in the GT, utilizing the same four-valve cylinder heads, piston rings and bearings.
Las Vegas – June 7, 2007 – Executives with Shelby Automobiles have announced that the company will transform consumer owned 2007 and 2008 Ford Shelby GT500’s into fire breathing "Super Snake" coupes for only US$27,995.00. Beginning in late summer of 2007, a limited number of GT500 owners can have this post-title package applied to their car at the Shelby Automobiles facility in Las Vegas.
Over 600hp and uncompromised handling Steeda Autosports President Dario Orlando chose the 2007 Camp Steeda / SVT Owners Association Open Track Event at the famed Sebring International Raceway for the world debut of the new Steeda GT500.
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