Unlike early mustangs lots of people bought Ford GTs and salted them away in factory wrappers in climate controlled garages. Seems there ought to be plenty of 5 Mile cars to choose from
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SAAC Forum Discussion Area / Re: What happened to the Clubcobra Forum ?
May 14, 2025, 03:25:20 AM
Old thread but same subject... the forum has been having regular down time for several years but this time it's been at least two weeks.
There was a second forum that people were migrating to but I didn't bookmark it and if course I can't ask the down forum...
Anyone have any news and a link to the other place?
Did the database finally eat itself? Will it ever come back?
There was a second forum that people were migrating to but I didn't bookmark it and if course I can't ask the down forum...
Anyone have any news and a link to the other place?
Did the database finally eat itself? Will it ever come back?
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Ask a Registrar / Re: Authenticity question - 06 Shelby
June 01, 2021, 03:06:32 PM
The "Team Shelby" forum is no longer, at least not right now. It's return has been one of those "any day now" for several months. There was an aborted attempt to migrate it to a new platform that failed miserably, along with some party crashers that took it over as their personal facebook page, and so in an attempt to regroup has been shut down. "Team Shelby" maintains an active on Facebook and other social platforms but those aren't threaded and so don't have any history.
What 98SVT.. summarizes is correct. There were no '06 Shelby Mustangs except for the Hertz cars, and while many dealers referred to the "Shelby GT" as a "GT350" that was an attempt to rationalize it against the GT500 what was out at the same time. The GT350 returned later as a post-title Shelby offering and then was quietly closed down as Ford reclaimed the trademark and had their own offering.
You nailed it when you said "Tribute". Its tryue value is that of a modified Mustang GT. Maybe more than a standard car, but not by much given its age and the evolution of the Mustang over the subsequent years. It's not real or rare or going to fund a retirement program.
Drive the snot out of it. You'll think of your dad every time you sit in it!
(PS, I owned two of the Barrett Jackson Shelby GTs. There were awesome little cars and when equipped with a supercharger had as much HP as then unmodified GT500 of the same time, and handled much better than the GT500 because the Shelby GT came with the upgraded suspension bits. You could add those same bits to the GT500. The Shelby GT was maxed out with HP because of the 4.6L3V engine whereas the GT500 had the bigger V8 that was, like the Ford GT, severely underrated and could be brought up to immense HP on the base engine parts.)
What 98SVT.. summarizes is correct. There were no '06 Shelby Mustangs except for the Hertz cars, and while many dealers referred to the "Shelby GT" as a "GT350" that was an attempt to rationalize it against the GT500 what was out at the same time. The GT350 returned later as a post-title Shelby offering and then was quietly closed down as Ford reclaimed the trademark and had their own offering.
You nailed it when you said "Tribute". Its tryue value is that of a modified Mustang GT. Maybe more than a standard car, but not by much given its age and the evolution of the Mustang over the subsequent years. It's not real or rare or going to fund a retirement program.
Drive the snot out of it. You'll think of your dad every time you sit in it!
(PS, I owned two of the Barrett Jackson Shelby GTs. There were awesome little cars and when equipped with a supercharger had as much HP as then unmodified GT500 of the same time, and handled much better than the GT500 because the Shelby GT came with the upgraded suspension bits. You could add those same bits to the GT500. The Shelby GT was maxed out with HP because of the 4.6L3V engine whereas the GT500 had the bigger V8 that was, like the Ford GT, severely underrated and could be brought up to immense HP on the base engine parts.)
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