Genuine 1967 Shelby GT500 — Same Wimbledon White, 427 Side Oiler & 4-Speed Spec as Carroll Shelby's Own Super Snake — Documented Holman-Moody History — Comes Accompanied by Shelby Jacket & 1:8 Scale Model
The Car
This is not a tribute or a recreation. This is a genuine, documented 1967 Shelby GT500, Shelby serial number 67402F4A00921, verified by both a Marti Report and the Shelby American Automobile Club Registry. It is one of only 2,048 GT500s built for 1967, and one of just 1,376 fitted with the original 4-speed manual transmission. The car was built at Ford's San Jose plant, finished in Wimbledon White over black, and shipped new to East Tennessee Motor Co in Knoxville.
What makes this particular car remarkable is what happened to it decades later, and it involves two of the biggest names in American racing history.
A Rare Shared Specification
The 427 side oiler was never a standard GT500 engine. It was a race-bred option pulled directly from Ford's Le Mans winning GT40 program, and at $2,000 over the standard 428, it was fitted to just three 1967 GT500s from the factory. Carroll Shelby's own personal car, the Super Snake he built for a Goodyear tire test in 1967, ran that same 427 side oiler and wore the same Wimbledon White paint. Shelby wanted to build and sell fifty more, but Ford killed the plan over cost, leaving the Super Snake a genuine one-off. It went on to sell for 2.2 million dollars at auction, the most expensive Mustang ever sold.
This GT500 shares that exact combination: Wimbledon White paint, a genuine 427 side oiler, and the original 4-speed manual transmission. It carries the same specification Carroll Shelby chose for himself, at a fraction of what that single car commands today.
The Holman-Moody Connection
Longtime owner John Young of Clover, South Carolina, blew up the original 428 engine and brought the car to Holman-Moody in Charlotte. Holman-Moody was not just any repair shop. Founded by John Holman and Ralph Moody, the outfit was Ford's official factory race team and race car builder through the 1950s and 60s, and remains the most successful team in motorsports history, with 96 NASCAR premier series wins and 83 poles across 525 starts between 1957 and 1973.
The team's record speaks for itself. Holman-Moody won back to back NASCAR championships with David Pearson in 1968 and 1969. They won the 1967 Daytona 500, the same model year as this car, with Mario Andretti behind the wheel of a Holman-Moody built Ford. Driving Holman-Moody's famous white No. 28, Fred Lorenzen, NASCAR's original "Golden Boy," won 26 races between 1961 and 1967, more than Richard Petty and David Pearson combined over that same stretch. Holman-Moody also built the GT40 Mark IIs that conquered Le Mans. Their unofficial motto, "Competition Proven," was not marketing talk. It was a statement of fact.
According to the Shelby American Automobile Club's own registry documentation, Holman-Moody responded to Young's request by installing an ex-Wood Brothers Racing 427 side oiler NASCAR engine, along with a full rebuild of the transmission, steering and brakes. Wood Brothers Racing is the oldest continuously operating team in NASCAR, founded in 1950 in Stuart, Virginia, and still competing at the top level of the sport today. They ran Ford products for their entire history, revolutionized the modern pit stop, and fielded legends like David Pearson, A.J. Foyt and Dan Gurney behind the wheel. An engine with genuine Wood Brothers Racing origins is not a period-correct reproduction part. It is a surviving piece of an actual championship-level NASCAR operation.
Young paid for the work but passed away before he could bring the car home. His widow, Martha Young, turned to Lee Holman himself, son of Holman-Moody founder John Holman, to handle the sale. The car remained at the Holman-Moody shop for years afterward, where the engine was rebuilt a second time by Jimmy Tucker in 2008 as part of a mechanical restoration project, before finally being purchased in 2014 by the ownership group that brought it to us.
Few cars in the world can claim a factory race shop pedigree this direct. This GT500 was not restored to look like it has Holman-Moody history. It has Holman-Moody history, documented in writing by the people who lived it.
The Details
Finished in Wimbledon White with LeMans stripes and a black interior, the car wears its history honestly. It carries functional brake scoops, and while some details have been updated over the decades, including its current 15 inch Magstar wheels and louvered hood, the documentation trail from build sheet to Marti Report to SAAC registry to Holman-Moody's own record is as complete as you will find on any Shelby of this era.
The car has been fully inspected by our team, with any necessary work completed before it reached the showroom.
Condition
This car has been driven and used exactly the way a Shelby with a Holman-Moody race engine deserves to be used. It wears its decades of history honestly rather than hiding behind an over-restoration.
Get behind the wheel and the pedigree is obvious within the first few hundred feet. The 427 side oiler is a genuinely high-output powerplant, and it makes that clear the moment you get into the throttle. This is not a numbers-on-paper engine bay. It pulls hard, it sounds the part, and it delivers the kind of thrust that reminds you exactly where it came from. The 4-speed manual shifts smoothly through the gears, with none of the notchiness or reluctance that often creeps into cars this age. Underneath, the car presents as solid and well cared for, with no structural concerns turned up during our inspection.
Put simply, this is a great, solid driver. It is not a trailer queen and it does not want to be one. This is a car built to be driven hard, and decades later it still delivers exactly that experience.
You can enjoy it exactly as it sits, backed by one of the most thoroughly documented ownership and mechanical histories available for a 1967 GT500, or our team can bring it up to concours condition for the show circuit. Either way, the story underneath does not need embellishing.
Key Highlights
A Note to Our American Buyers
We are based in Sneek, the Netherlands, and we ship muscle cars to the US on a regular basis. Our team handles all export paperwork and documentation so the process is straightforward on your end. We can provide additional photos, video, or a live video walkaround before you buy. Reach out to our sales team with any questions about shipping timelines or the import process.
Additional Information
We welcome trade-ins, classic or modern. This car comes with full service history and complete documentation and photography.
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