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| A classic American beauty....and the girl is pretty too! |
Brighton, Mich., Jan. 30, 2012 – Brighton Ford wants to wish a very
special happy 47th birthday to an American muscle car classic, the Shelby
GT-350 Mustang. It was on January 27th, 1965 at a press event in
Riverside, California that Shelby American introduced the 1965 GT-350 Mustang. Shelby
American itself is celebrating the company’s 50th anniversary this
year as well. During those early years, Shelby was tasked with transforming
Ford’s new smash hit, the Ford
Mustang, into a performance machine that would be able to compete in the SCCA’s Class B production sports car class. Some
auto sources have said that the first twelve unites were built within a week,
but it is generally acknowledged that the first 100 units, enough to adhere to
the SCCA’s homologation rule, were built and ready for inspection by January 1,
1965.
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| The Shelby GT-350 on the track |
The original MSRP for the street-legal 1965 GT-350 cost
about $4,547, almost $1,000 more than its counterpart the 1965 Mustang GT
equipped with the K-code 289 V-8. Only 521 street-legal GT-350’s and just 36
race-spec GT-350R’s were built in 1965, which is quite a small number when
compared to the total Mustang production of 559,451 units. The 1965 GT-350 is
truly an iconic vehicle and it’s no surprise why collectors are still hunting
after them today.
Brighton ford is located at 8240 Grand River Ave. just north of
I-96 in Brighton. We are a family owned and operated business that strives on
customer satisfaction. For more information on Brighton Ford, visit www.BrightonFord.com.
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