The GT350 was the racehorse sired by a mule that Shelby American delivered in 1965 at the express request of Lee Iacocca. The sports car for secretaries had little to no chance of ever becoming a ...

The '60s was the golden era of muscle cars, with high-performance models coming fromFord, GM as well as Chrysler at the time. Particularly in 1969, the Mustang Boss 429, Camaro ZL1, and the Charger ...

Marketing is a fascinating aspect of business. It's given us awful failures, like "New Coke," but it's also given up epic wins, like the partnership between Shelby American and the Hertz Corporation.

The 1966 Shelby GT350 was built around speed, not softness. It took the compact Ford pony car formula and stripped away civility in pursuit of raw, track-bred performance, then added back only the ...

The Shelby GT350 never needed excuses. Carroll Shelby built the 1965 and 1966 GT350s to win races, carry the Mustang banner into genuine motorsport legitimacy, and terrify anything that mistook the ...

To be fully transparent, today's Nice Price or No Dice Mustang has nothing to do with Carroll Shelby other than honoring his legacy, and the car is presented in the ad as nothing more. Let's see if ...

OVC’s Gardena warehouse looks like most other shops. Other than a wall crammed to the edges with famous signatures, it’s filled with funky old Mustangs in various stages of disrepair and ...

[This story first appeared in the May 1965 issue of MotorTrend] When Ford decided to go racing with the Mustang, they wisely first consulted their oracle for such matters, Carroll Shelby. Shelby's Los ...