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1 owner, only 29k on the clock. He bought it new but jobs around the world all of his life have limited his driving time. Now he's too old and injured to drive it.
To be auctioned. Any guesses what it's worth...or more accurately, what someone will pay for it?

SHELBY GT350

What a beautiful Shelby...

I'd love to drive it just once.

Saw a GNX posted on twitter - 9 original miles. All plastic on the inside. #41X made - they wanted over 300k for it.

I imagine this one will go for quite a bit for sure.

$500K

Wimbledon White and Guardsman Blue is my all-time favorite color scheme on a Mustang.

Near car, too bad owner didn't get to enjoy.

Same here.

I'm gonna guess it will go for around $425,000.

I remember when I was a kid I went with my Dad to a Ford dealership and looked at a '65 (or '66 ?) GT350 in their showroom. Wowsa. It was bare knuckles stripped down ready to race. No carpeting, no headliner, no radio, 5 point race "seatbelt", back seat replaced with an aluminum fuel cell, full roll cage. All I could do was drool.

Then the Ford marketing nerds got hold of it and in following years added creature comforts and weight.

Agreed but I'm also a sucker for the old Gulf Oil livery on a car.

I'm gonna guess it will go for around $425,000.

I remember when I was a kid I went with my Dad to a Ford dealership and looked at a '65 (or '66 ?) GT350 in their showroom. Wowsa. It was bare knuckles stripped down ready to race. No carpeting, no headliner, no radio, 5 point race "seatbelt", back seat replaced with an aluminum fuel cell, full roll cage. All I could do was drool.

Then the Ford marketing nerds got hold of it and in following years added creature comforts and weight.

I don't know if they still offer it but they used to sell basically a roller mustang. Stripped down like you say but no drivetrain for people to buy and race with. Drag/autocross etc. Recent body styles too.

They had the Cobra Jet Program too.

I'm thinking seven figures.

In 2000 Ford built 300 SVT Cobra R’s.

My french teacher in high school had one just like it. Supposedly her husband was a race car driver of some sort. She had very short skirts for 1967.

1.75 mil

The old terminator Cobras - Ferrari killers. AMAZING cars that just punched above their weight. 2003, rated at 390 hp, was more like 430

He needs to take that thing to Barrett-Jackson or Mecum auctions and let them auction it off in front of the high rollers......I'm betting it would go north of $500k.....

Ok, just read it and he is auctioning it at Mecum Indy on Saturday......pls let us know what it goes for....

In the mid 80's when I was a Washington State Trooper working S. Seattle one of my fellow Troopers ask me to follow him home one afternoon. We parked in his driveway and he started walking across the street and said to follow him. Walked to the house across the street and my friend walked into the garage and hit the door openers. Sitting SxS were a GT350 and GT500. The owner came out and we started talking and he said if you wanted to go straight really fast you drove the 500, but if you wanted to go fast a turn you wanted the 350. He said the 500's never really handled that well.

$6-700,000 is my guess considering that our money is severely devalued at the moment. Beautiful car.

I raced a 1966 Shelby GT 350 from 1971-1974. People forget how light cars of that era were - especially the Shelby's. No back seat, just a molded plastic piece. The front end would get kind of floaty at high speed, but they did handle decently - again for the times (and the tires). At the time I had a contact at Parnelli Jone's Firestone shop. He could get me used front Firestone Indy Car tires for cheap. Jones did bunch of testing and often the tires only had a lap or two on them. They worked great for short races. It was a true Unfair Advantage (in Mark Donahue's parlance).