This car was ment to be produced in a limited amount of 50 units. But only one car was built, because of the price on $7,500 was similar to a Cobra 427. But this G.T.500 had a lightweight 427, tuned to 520 horsepower tough.
Carroll Shelby hit speeds over 170 miles per hour in this beast, at the Goodyear track in Texas where he was testing some tires with the car producing 520 horespower. That was groundbreaking specifications in 1967. And the Shelby Cobra, which actually killed this sweet car, could only do 140 miles per hour. At that speed all loose things in the cockpit and most of the top had left the car, and your eardrums was about to pull the white flag, partly because of wind and partly because of the sound of the high reving 427.
The car was equipted with thin-wide-thin Le Mans stripes as standard, thats the only way to recognize the Super Snake from a "common" '67 G.T.500.
The orginal 1967 Super Snake has been on eBay twice in 2002. The bids reached $169,000
Carrol Shleby has a motto, or a famous quote "First make history, then repeat it." To keep that promise he had to make a new Super Snake! So in 2003 he made a new Super Snake. A limited amount of 75 units.
725 horsepower, NOS and +185 miles per hour. That was groundbreaking specifications in 2003, and the car is equipted with the same thin-wide-thin Le Mans stripes as the orginal one from 67, that's the only way to recognize a Super Snake from a "common" '03 G.T.500"E", as the new one is called.
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