Thanks to the Hagerty YouTube channelThanks to the Hagerty YouTube channel and in collaboration with Hemmings, the Appraiser is back to check out another muscle car (or pony car, in this case), going over its history and leaving his professional opinion on awesome cars.
It’s another Ford Mustang that he turns up to see, but like the last time, it’s also another special Mustang – a Shelby.
This one comes with a very interesting story and rocking something unexpected under the hood – let’s take a look at this custom Mustang and why it might just be one of the coolest Shelbys around.
The Twin-Supercharged 1967 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500
First-up, there’s the introduction and backstory for this Dark Moss Green Ford Shelby Mustang GT500: it got bought from the sister of the original owner, in 1977 when it was just 10 years old.
That original owner got drafted and sent to Vietnam and sadly didn’t return, so it is now in the hands of the current owner.
His company got bought out by Paxton, so after previously selling the car to a friend and then buying it back 35 years later, he decides to fit it with two Paxton superchargers to show what he could do.
This is similar, the Appraiser says, to the Super Snake editions of the Shelby Mustang; here, the big block GT500 started off as a 7-liter but now the V8 is 7.3-liters in capacity – and it’s not the original engine.
The current owner wanted to take out the original numbers-matching engine and twin-supercharge a different one to conserve the value of the car.
It’s A Powerful, Rare And Charismatic Shelby GT500
1967 was the third year of Shelby Mustangs and the first year for the big-block GT500, while the ‘Super Snakes’ were a pair of Shelby Mustang GT500s that got twin Paxton superchargers from the factory; they’re now worth a lot of money.
This seems like a good way to do the project by keeping the original engine out of the car to not hurt the future value.
As the Appraiser walks around and does his thing, we can see that the vehicle is in great condition and there’s paperwork too along with some historical photos.
In the end, the value on this one gets suggested being around $225,000 by the owner, and the Appraiser confirms this by saying that he thinks it's worth a similar $250,000.
We bet the owner will hang on to this car for the future though given how he bought it back after 35 years.