This very fascinating car began life as a 1967 Shelby GT500
engineering car. Finished in Lime Gold it was often used at testing
events even making appearances with the famous Super Snake. Later
the car was used to help fix the over heating issues initially
found with A/C equipped GT500's, it is the car used to design the
hood vents or louvers later found on all A/C cars, the first to
initially work with the outboard headlights, again to help with
cooling.
Once its duties as an 1967 engineering car, it was chosen to help
design the 1968 Shelbys . It would be refinished in Acapulco Blue
and the hood, nose and interior designs were worked on. This car
was then used for most of the early advertising for the 1968 models
while still equipped with 1967 10 spoke Shelby wheels, an option
that Shelby aficionados will know was never available on 1968
models.
The car was brought to LMC as a restored Lime Gold 1967 Shelby
needing some freshening. Once the restoration began the pieces of
its history began to fall together and it was discovered to be the
prototype car. And so began a challenging yet very interesting
restoration of this very special Shelby GT500.
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