Ex-Carroll Shelby 67 GT500 on BAT #0981

[Nightmist]

Ex–Carroll Shelby 1967 GT500 4-Speed:

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-shelby-mustang-gt500-34/

[shelbymotorsports]

Gotta love the BaT peanut gallery comments, yes they can be snarky at times but the comments can also contain many facts but only if one wants to acknowledge them.

While not assembly line correct looks like a nice vehicle and hopefully someone in the EU is looking for a 1967. I do not see the bringing the vehicle back to the U.S. cost effective unless it hammers extremely low.

[Coralsnake]

At a quarter million USD, I think "extremely low" has left the chat.

The numbers guys kill me, they believe everything they read and when presented with pictures still dont know what they are looking at...

Best comment is asking for pictures with CS.

[Coralsnake]

The block was cast after the car was built.

[Nightmist]

The seller said in the comments that he will pay for container shipment from Greece to anywhere in the US, and there should be no import tax for a vehicle that was manufactured or previously registered in the US.  I wonder what the car looked like 26 years ago when Shelby/Becker owned it.

[SCJSTU]

someone asked for a picture of Carrol with the car did you? .....AI is great!

[Coralsnake]

Now do Elvis, it will be about as real!

[shelbydoug]

Now do Elvis, it will be about as real!

I suppose that it depends on whether you see the oil cooler valuable (functional) or not but I would have installed it and let someone else decide if it had a valuable function.

"Saw the ghost of Elvis
On Union Avenue
Followed him up to the gates of Graceland
Then I watched him walk right through"

I suppose it can apply to anyone that haunts you? Elvis shot his Pantera. Maybe Shelby would have too?
I try not to get too spooky though. I never said that I was just right?

SOME of my "visions" are pretty cool but obviously limited to just me.

[SCJSTU]

ask and you shall receive......I'm not an artist tho

[Coralsnake]

Is it just me or did the "original" smog system change?

[Nightmist]

Seems like more questions than answers with this car.  Does it have the original engine, gearbox and rear end?  Original wheels, oil cooler and smog system?  No photos or documents proving ownership by Shelby besides the email from Becker to Mathews?

[Coralsnake]

I believe Mr Becker. This wasn't the only car he titled with Shelby.

The letter says they were doing it to make money.

[Nightmist]

Strange that no one kept a photo of the title with Shelby's name.  I wonder how many other classic Shelby Mustangs have a similar Becker story.

[shelbydoug]

That is not the "original" PCV system. What you see is what you need to do to make it work. The original did not.

There is no indication at all of an oil cooler. There is an original oil cooler assembly for a GT500 with A/C. They are difficult to find and even if you did, the price is very steep. It is an uncommon part amongst uncommon parts. I doubt that an outside A/C shop would even have known that an original installation would have added the Shelby oil cooler.


The thing with the "previously owned by Shelby" claim, is that there was a lot of legal action involving lawsuits claiming fraud or at least misrepresentation. It probably would still be considered "actionable" by certain surviving parties involved to openly discus that and as a result, best left alone now?

[J_Speegle]

Is it just me or did the "original" smog system change?

The system shown in Becker's email on Jan 2003 surely isn't original to the car re was representing and apparently owned at the time. Don't know if he knew the different at that time or today.