1967 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 Fastback Coupe

• One of only 11 Shelby American ‘Engineering’ documented by the SAAC Registry
• Accompanied by a Deluxe Marti Report, the definitive authentication tool for Mustang Collectors
• Presented in its correct original colours of Dark Moss Green over Parchment interior
• Desirable and comparatively rare four-speed manual gearbox
• Retains numerous correct original components including the early inboard headlight configuration, original fibreglass bonnet and bootlid, and the factory Kelsey-Hayes Mag Star wheels

VEHICLE DESCRIPTION

Few American cars carry the provenance that this 1967 Shelby GT500 does. Chassis number 0425 is not simply one of 2,048 GT500 fastbacks produced that year — it is one of only eleven specifically designated as ‘Engineering’ cars within Shelby American’s own company fleet, a distinction that places it among the rarest and most historically significant Shelby Mustangs in existence.

The car was built at Shelby’s California facility on 20 January 1967 and assigned as a company car to Don Cunningham of Shelby American, where it served as a factory test and development vehicle alongside only ten others in the same classification. On 25 August 1967, it was dispatched to Johnny Bolton Ford Inc. in Maitland, Florida, where it was purchased by its first private owner, Charles W. Park of Apopka, Florida, on 13 October 1967. The car subsequently passed through the hands of Jerry Dietrich and then two further owners in Scottsdale and Phoenix, Arizona, during which time — in 1985 — it received a full body and mechanical restoration. It was exported to the UK in 1990 and has remained here since.

The car is accompanied by a Deluxe Marti Report, prepared by Kevin Marti of Marti Auto Works, who hold the exclusive licence to Ford Motor Company’s complete production database for 1967–2017. In Mustang collector circles, the Marti Report is regarded as the definitive proof of a car’s original factory specification — the equivalent of a birth certificate drawn directly from Ford’s own mainframe records. For a GT500 of this significance, its presence is not merely welcome but essential. The report confirms the car’s factory build data in full, including its 428ci Police Interceptor V8 mated to the four-speed Borg-Warner manual gearbox — a specification chosen by only 1,376 buyers among all GT500s that year — as well as its impressive original equipment list: Kelsey-Hayes Mag Star deluxe wheels, shoulder harness, extra cooling package, power front disc brakes, power steering, interior décor group, sport deck rear seat, tachometer and trip odometer, and heavy-duty battery. The factory door data plate simulation and production statistics confirm just how rare this combination of specification and status truly is.

The car presents in its correct original Dark Moss Green over Parchment interior and retains numerous components that are frequently lost or damaged on cars of this age and type. The original fibreglass bonnet and bootlid — items particularly vulnerable to accident damage over six decades — remain with the car, as does the early inboard headlight arrangement that was revised on later production cars. Since arriving in the UK, the car has been properly maintained, and during the current ownership it has been professionally stored and used lightly on weekends for the past seven years — exactly the kind of careful stewardship a car of this importance deserves. It has been recently serviced by The Classic Motor Hub’s in-house workshop, including a full carburettor rebuild. The history file is comprehensive, containing the SAAC Registry documentation, the Shelby American Inc. company cars production ledger confirming the Engineering designation, the Deluxe Marti Report, current MOT certificate, and V5C registration document.

MODEL HISTORY  

By 1967, Carroll Shelby had already transformed Ford’s Mustang from a popular pony car into a serious performance machine. His GT350, powered by a tuned version of Ford’s 289ci small-block V8, had won the SCCA’s B-Production championship three years running, and the Shelby name had become synonymous with a particular brand of Texan-Californian muscle — purposeful, aggressive, and deeply American.

For 1967, Shelby raised the stakes considerably. When Ford introduced a 390ci big-block option for the standard Mustang, Shelby went further still, fitting the 428ci Police Interceptor V8 to create the GT500. This was a different proposition entirely from the GT350 — broader, more menacing, its standard Mustang body substantially reworked with a fibreglass nose, bonnet, and tail panel, functional side scoops, and a dramatically extended front end. Under that bonnet sat Ford’s 428 cubic inch unit fed by twin 600cfm Holley four-barrel carburettors on an aluminium manifold, nominally rated at 355bhp but widely understood to produce closer to 400 in practice, with torque figures that made the point rather more forcefully than any specification sheet could.

With power front disc brakes, uprated suspension, a wood-rimmed steering wheel, and full Shelby badging, the GT500 combined genuine performance with a presence that no other American car of the era could quite match. Of the 2,048 GT500 fastbacks built in 1967 — all in the fastback body style — only a small number were retained as company cars, and fewer still given the specific designation of ‘Engineering’ vehicles. Those cars sat at the very heart of Shelby American’s operation, and their survival in documented, original condition is increasingly exceptional. This is one such car, and there are very few like it.

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