https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1968-ford-shelby-mustang-gt500kr-3/
Why ?? :-[
Out of the norm.. a little different :o
Because soccer moms love silver.
What with the modern created poser Elanor cars that have recently in some cases bringing more money then a original Shelby in the same condition maybe seller thought the same thing can happen with a genuine Shelby with restomod features. It will be interesting to see how it does.
Hard to see shock tower reinforcements ?
This car was done 20 years ago.
Quote from: Lincoln tech on March 08, 2024, 08:18:51 AM
Hard to see shock tower reinforcements ?
pic 116 blown up appears to have one on the pass side shock tower.
Someone decided to destroy a KR , I hope that 100,000 watt stereo system works :(
Quote from: Lincoln tech on March 08, 2024, 03:00:35 PM
Someone decided to destroy a KR , I hope that 100,000 watt stereo system works :(
The car can be returned to original specs relatively easy. Here is one that cannot be. The owner back around 3+ decades ago finished this car the way it looks in the pic. He took it to a SAAC convention and got hammered for destroying a KR(Said he would never attend another meet ever). Well the car was a totaled KR that Lee Detrick bought and built into a drag car(well known Detroit drag racer along with his brother Clyde). I remember Lee building this car in his garage 4 decades ago as he lived a few blocks from me. Drag raced it and sold it as a roller. Next guy bought it. Had my Cousin paint it black with silver stripes and had a 460 in it. Won the Frankenmuth car show(car was on next year's trophy). Then the blown Boss 9 engine was installed in it. The blown engine came out of my friend's Sanger boat. Hard to bring this one back to stock.
There are two issues here, one why would anyone "hammer" an owner so much that it reflects poorly on an entire group or club?
Secondly, if you are that thin skinned that the comments of a couple people bother you, you should probably stay home
Quote from: Coralsnake on March 09, 2024, 08:41:07 AM
There are two issues here, one why would anyone "hammer" an owner so much that it reflects poorly on an entire group or club?
Secondly, if you are that thin skinned that the comments of a couple people bother you, you should probably stay home
I assume the owner did from that point on when it came to SAAC conventions. This was conveyed to me by my cousin who painted the car back then. I have not seen this car publicly since the 100 years Ford show in 2003 and he wasn't around. I didn't know the guy but knew who he was since he bought the car off a guy I knew, had my cousin paint it then bought the supercharged B9 engine off of a good friend. The car is portrayed as a GT500 in the pic I posted but when Lee owned it and later sold it in the auto trader(5500) it was listed as a real KR. I wonder if it is in the 68 registry.
Pretty sure I have seen it before. I will see if I can find it
I would not do that to a regular production Mustang let alone one identifiable as a Shelby.
In my view reactions actually cut both ways though. There are those that are openly indignant of how the car currently appears and don't have issues with expressing that and the owners are indignant that the car does not fit into the "Shelby's society's" definition of how the car should be.
Often I notice quite a visible attitude of arrogance on both sides. I personally attempt to avoid both groups and try to appreciate both even though at times it can be quite an abstract endeavor.
I suppose I should point out that I have in fact been told to "go back to my arrogant SAAC buddies" as well as politically be told by both the extreme left and right that, "we don't need you here. Stop telling people that you know "me"." So I kind of get it all, generally, if not specifically speaking.
It is very helpful if you have a thick enough skin to be able to tolerate it all and being a native New Yorker I understand that nobody here agrees on anything anyway, no one likes each other and that everyone complains about everything all the time.
All things considered though it would be nice that once in a while one of our major league sports teams could win something and at least get into the finals? See. Complaints, complaints! :)
Quote from: shelbydoug on March 09, 2024, 09:49:07 AM
I would not do that to a regular production Mustang let alone one identifiable as a Shelby.
In my view reactions actually cut both ways though. There are those that are openly indignant of how the car currently appears and don't have issues with expressing that and the owners are indignant that the car does not fit into the "Shelby's society's" definition of how the car should be.
Often I notice quite a visible attitude of arrogance on both sides. I personally attempt to avoid both groups and try to appreciate both even though at times it can be quite an abstract endeavor.
I suppose I should point out that I have in fact been told to "go back to my arrogant SAAC buddies" as well as politically be told by both the extreme left and right that, "we don't need you here. Stop telling people that you know "me"." So I kind of get it all, generally, if not specifically speaking.
It is very helpful if you have a thick enough skin to be able to tolerate it all and being a native New Yorker I understand that nobody here agrees on anything anyway, no one likes each other and that everyone complains about everything all the time.
All things considered though it would be nice that once in a while one of our major league sports teams could win something and at least get into the finals? See. Complaints, complaints! :)
Good post Doug. On the one note I highlighted in red I'd say it depends on when it was done and what it was done to. The KR I pointed out was bought as a wrecked totaled car. Guy who bought it drag raced a 68 FB(his wife) and a 67 FB(his). Cars were pretty stock body wise with no real modifications that were not easily undone. The Shelby provided the "next class" car he was looking to build. Late 70s early 80s it was done. I fully understand why he did it because the car would have went to the junkyard and later crusher otherwise but is still alive in an iteration of it's former self.
No complaints here , just thoughts ;)
Pretty sure that car shelbymann1970 posted is #793 - not a KR
Quote from: Coralsnake on March 09, 2024, 10:19:03 AM
Pretty sure that car shelbymann1970 posted is #793 - not a KR
Very well could be. Back in the 70s/80s I've known a few cars that were "S" codes but the owners said KRs. I'm going off of what Lee said 4 decades ago.
Seller has been trying to sell 3701 for $189k for two years
I dont think it will make it to the reserve
Quote from: Coralsnake on March 09, 2024, 10:19:03 AM
Pretty sure that car shelbymann1970 posted is #793 - not a KR
Pete, I just looked into the registry and saw Lee Detrick was a prior owner. Unless Lee had 2 68s that he turned into drag cars i remember him telling me it was a wrecked car that he started with. On one forum Lee chimed in on the cars that he has(had?) of his 67(Brutus) and 68 FBs he listed many others including a 68 Shelby. A people search says Lee is 81 now(still alive then I'd think).