Vehicle Description
1969 Shelby GT500 Coupe 428 Cobra Jet - One of 416 Finished in
Grabber Blue Paint - Professional Body Off Nut and Bolt Restoration
- R Code 428 Cobra Jet Ram Air Engine - Professionally Rebuilt - C6
Cruise O Matic Transmission - Marti Report - All New Suspension,
Wiring, Lines, and Exhaust - Wilwood 4-Wheel Power Disc Brakes -
All Original Parts Included (Please note: If you happen to be
viewing this 1959 Shelby GT500 on a website other than our Garage
Kept Motors site, it's possible that you've only seen some of our
many photographs of this vehicle due to website limitations. To be
sure you access all the more than 150 photographs, please go to our
main website: GarageKeptMotors.) ...the last Shelby GT500 of the
classic era. It rounded out an ultra-high-performance Mustang
product line for the '69 model year that will probably never be
matched for sheer brute force. �€"Roger C. Johnson, Hot Rod
Network, 1/20/15 Some cars automatically generate fits of wild
imagination. This is one of those cars, so... Imagine it's the
spring of 1969. Sometime after Richard Nixon's January inauguration
as the country's 37thpresident, but before Neil Armstrong becomes
the first man to walk on the moon in July. Beatles and Credence
Clearwater Revival tunes were playing from 8-track tape players.
The Woodstock Music & Arts Festival was set for mid-August.
Imaginary you is a 20-something wearing a turtleneck and flared
pants and sporting a leather jacket. It's a lazy Saturday and you
find yourself in the showroom at Fuller Ford in Cincinnati. Just
browsing you tell the sales guy. Suddenly, you see it! And in the
parlance of the times, your mind is blown. It's nirvana on four
styled-steel wheels: the all-new 1969 Shelby Mustang GT in a color
they call Grabber Blue for good reason: It definitely grabbed you.
And right after the GT on the car's side-stripe, you can't miss the
magic three numbers 5-0-0. You're spellbound. Sure enough, the
fender badges confirm it: Shelby Cobra Jet 428. The pleasant Ford
sales guy sees your starstruck gaze and offers to lift the car's
hood. As he does, you notice the sole grill badge bearing the
Shelby cobra logo, and marvel at the three NACA hood air ducts,
something that's never been seen on a car before. The massive 428
cubic-inch engine fills the space beneath and sports a wide-open
Cobra Jet Ram-Air air-cleaner assembly atop. Forged valve covers
are prominently stamped Cobra Le Mans. Serious business here. You
walk around the side to peer in the driver's window, and think to
yourself This is exactly how I'd have wanted mine! Black vinyl
high-back buckets with the perfect accent touch of red, beefy
automatic shifter on the console with auxiliary oil-pressure and
battery-condition lighted gauges, Shelby-snake-logo on the wood-rim
steering wheel, power disc brakes, fold-down rear seats, integrated
roll bar, wood trim on the dash and door panels, great big analog
clock directly in front of the passenger seat. Underneath the car,
the dealership has placed a large mirror so you can see the full
length of the separate dual exhausts exiting in the center of the
car through side-by-side rectangular openings at the rear. You
imagine the music they'd produce. Sweeter even than CCR. More than
that, you imagine owning this beautiful Shelby. Okay, wake up! At
Garage Kept Motors, this car is no imaginary, unattainable dream;
it's here in the metal. Fully and faithfully restored, documented
in every respect by an accompanying Marti Report (verifying it's
one of just 418 Grabber blue examples), unaltered data plate with
the mysterious 5 seemingly in the color code (but not really as it
simply indicates the Mach1 hood present on these cars before they
became Shelby creations). During the restoration process, the R
Code engine was professionally rebuilt; the car's suspension was
rebuilt; Willwood brakes were added; and the exhaust system was
replaced. (All original parts removed from the car ar