| The 1968 Shelby GT500 was quite the cool car. This one
had the 428 Police interceptor engine and Ford 4 speed Toploader. The original
owner (2 owners previous to me) saw fit to install fiberglass
flares on the rear fenders (yech.) He also installed a race clutch. The
incorrect fog lights shown in the pictures were replaced with the
factory Lucas lights.
We were getting married at the time, and the car was just too impractical
to keep. You could not park it anywhere, unless you kept an eye on it.
It had the gas guzzling 428 4V and a race clutch along with a long throw
Ford Toploader that would not stay in second gear! The 16 gallon gas
tank kept needing a fill up! SO the car had to go. If we had only knew
what they would have been worth today (back then). Anyway we bought it
for $8500 and I remember having a bank loan for it of about $4000. I
sold it for about $10,000 and had to re-ring one of the pistons which
was blowing out blue smoke. I took off one head and did it while the
engine was in the car (what a big job!) I wish I had kept the multitude
of extra Shelby parts that I had with the car... instead of giving them
to the buyer, even those are worth a small fortune now!! |
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