Vehicle Description
1966 Shelby GT350 Fastback Tribute - White with Blue Stripes - 289
V8 - 4 Speed Manual (Please note: If you happen to be viewing this
1966 Shelby GT350 Fastback Tribute on a website other than our
Garage Kept Motors site, it's possible that you've only seen some
of our many photographs of the car due to third-party website
limitations. To be sure you access all the more than 145
photographs, as well as a short start-up and walk-around video, go
to our main website: Garage Kept Motors.) Homage to the Tribute
Cars - Hagerty Media, November 2020 Hagerty Media's Sam Smith
nicely explained his idea and origins origins of the tribute car
this way: No one knows who built the first tribute car. The
question recalls the old line about racing, how the first car race
took place shortly after the world's second car was built. The
first tribute car was probably assembled five minutes after some
enterprising mechanic noticed that the horseless carriage he wanted
was both rare and expensive. When people want what they can't have,
they often fall back on the next best thing-building one instead.
And to those who might question the phenomenon, Smith made an
excellent case: Finally, consider the automobile's intended use:
Tribute cars let you drive and share historic moments that might be
otherwise doomed to a quiet life of little more than display. By
way of example, several years ago, my garage held a 1965 Ford
Mustang fastback. Decades later, someone worked it over, making it
drive like and visually resemble its more valuable sibling. I
bought the Ford partly because I didn't have the bank account for a
real '65 GT350, and partly because I adored how it worked. My car
didn't quite feel like a real Shelby, but who's counting? I drove
it hard and often, on back roads and road trips, in the rain and
sweltering heat, leaving stop signs sideways in clouds of tire
smoke.... Several months into ownership, while pumping gas in some
rural town in the middle of nowhere, it occurred to me that had I
been fortunate enough to own a real '65 GT350, I probably wouldn't
have driven it in the same carefree, glorious fashion. Offered here
is a very well-executed tribute to the 1965 Shelby GT350 Fastback
in the emblematic Shelby color combination: Wimbledon White with
blue racing stripes over black. The price is well below the
$250,000+ it could take to acquire the original version, which
would then need to spend most of its time locked away somewhere for
fear of damage or theft. In the Hagerty writer's words, this one
can be enjoyed out on the road in a carefree glorious fashion.
Originally a C-code Mustang, the car's odometer now reads 35,923
miles. The car's exterior is free of damage, dings, or dents. Body
panel alignment is very good. The paint finish is uniform and
properly applied including on door jambs and the undersides of the
trunk lid and hood. The blue racing stripes on the hood, roof, and
rear deck are properly aligned and applied (including to the lower
front and rear valances). Shelby touches include the front grille
with offset emblem, side brake-duct air scoops,
through-the-rear-valance dual exhausts, and side stripes. Badging
includes front-fender 289 engine identification, Mustang 2+2 model
designation behind the front wheel wells, Mustang-emblem fuel
filler-cap, and blue GT 350 designation on the blue side stripes.
All chrome on the car is in excellent condition with minimal
patina: bumpers, cabin-glass trim, side mirrors, and exhaust tips
all show very well. Period-correct styled steel wheels (with chrome
trim rings and Mustang emblem red center caps) are mounted with
BFGoodrich® Radial T/A raised-white-letter performance tires.
Inside, the stock appearance remains with Shelby-like additions.
Seat upholstery on the front low-back buckets and foldable rear
2-place bench seat is the original-style vented vinyl in black.
Door trim combines black-painted sheet metal and horizontal-pattern
black vinyl with attractive