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Remember that 1967 fastback Mustang of your dreams?
A guy in Oklahoma is architecture a new adaptation that combines the agent identification number-matching anatomy with such things as avant-garde brakes and gears. It’s alleged the 1967 GT500CR Classic.
From the moment you get abaft the wheel, the rounded, five-speed manual shifter, the antagonism seats, and the bark of the agitation acquaint you affluence about the affectionate of car you’re ambidextrous with. This is the blazon that roars for absorption from a half-mile bottomward the road. The agent sounds like war.
The Shelby GT500CR has a 427 compression-ignition Crate V8 agent by Ford. It gets 545 horsepower.
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Better yet, this $179,000 beef monster drives as adamantine and abhorrent as it sounds. If you like big-ticket remakes that nod to avant-garde comforts, you’ll adulation it.
I collection the first-ever GT500CR Classic—car 00—recently through city Los Angeles, casual forth aback alleys, train tracks, and semi-rig loading lots, accomplished dry river beds and graffiti-splattered warehouses.
The car has rack-and-pinion steering, with a Tremec manual manual and Shelby/Wilwood brakes.
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Made by a aggregation alleged Archetypal Recreations, the GT500CR is a number-matching clean of the aboriginal 1967 Shelby GT500. (That was the high-performance adaptation of the Ford Mustang that Shelby American (now allotment of Carroll Shelby International) built in the backward 1960s. Ford congenital a few of them, too.)
True best versions go for $150,000 to $200,000 on Hemmings Motor News Inc. and AutoTrader.com Inc. The prices for those and this new version are comparable; you’ll want the aboriginal if you’re affairs primarily as an investment, but the avant-garde adaptation will apparently be added reliable as a circadian driver. The body of the car is original, but the blow is anew hand-built, taken anon from molds of the iconic artery racer.
Paint options for the exoteric accommodate gray/black, red/white, blue/white, black/gray, and yellow/white. Customized colors are available.
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Jason Engel is the man abaft it. The 43-year-old architect started authoritative agnate cars nine years ago, afterwards Carroll Shelby turned over the rights to anatomy them, using his name. Engel has been bedeviled with Shelby’s work since the allegorical car artist and racer signed an autograph for him at a car appearance three decades ago.
Engel was 14 then. Impressionable, to say the least.
The meeting afire a affection that collection Engel to own added than 60 Mustangs over the years, including the aboriginal 1967 GT500, on which this vehicle is based.
Inside, the car has a wide, wood-grain aluminum council wheel; an Old Air Products air conditioning system; and signature Carroll Shelby GT500CR attic mats. The seats are well-cushioned but not readily adjustable; they will be ill-fitted for assertive big or alpine drivers. Customized seats are available.
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“It got to area I would go to car shows aloof because Carroll Shelby was there,” Engel tells us by buzz this week. “It’s a dream arise accurate to anatomy these cars.”
Engel recreates a array of vehicles, such as a 1969 Camaro CR1 and 1966 Shelby GT350CR. His company, Oklahoma-based Archetypal Recreations, builds them in 100 canicule or so and sells them worldwide: Some 44 percent of his business comes from abroad, with Russia, China, and the Middle East his better markets. Some models aback as abundant as $400,000.
The GT500CR comes with five-point Camlock seat belts and a baby aback seat.
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His dedication is palpable. Talk to Engel for bristles account and he’ll call in detail the blazon of screws in the trunk, the intricacies of the fuel-injection system, and the accurate hue of the factory-made, candy-apple-red exoteric acrylic blush he pulled from the aboriginal car.
“There’s a lot of antagonism out there, but I abstracted myself, because I can absolutely anatomy a car—unlike some others out there,” Engel says. “I’m the buyer [of the company]. But I can additionally acrylic the car, wire it, anatomy it, assemble it. Anatomy it. I can run a business and anatomy a car.”
The block is baby but functional. The rear also appearance a cosmetic cycle bar.
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The GT500 is the latest, arguably the greatest, of his works. It has a 545-horsepower, 427 Ford Performance, fuel-injected, V8 427 agent and a front- and rear-suspension in coil-over appearance (the shock absorbers are captivated in braid springs) that makes it altogether ill-fitted for barreling bottomward asperous streets—and acknowledgment to attending at.
Even admitting the car looks altered from the original—bigger wheels, a altered grille, added bench padding—everything is bogus to attending and feel like the genitalia from the aboriginal manufacturer. It starts as an aboriginal 1967 Mustang with an aboriginal VIN cardinal and refurbished and congenital into a GT500CR Classic. The brakes, council accoutrement and bankrupt with ceramic-coated headers are all new. So are the multi-speaker complete system, five-point bench belts, and air conditioning.
Carroll Shelby signature capacity such as gauges and badge arise throughout the car.
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“This is a passion, so I’m actual big on application the aboriginal DNA of the Mustang,” Engel says. “I aloof added my own twist.”
He will accomplish 67 of them. Most are already announced for, admitting an 18-month waitlist.
How does it drive?
Top acceleration is 160 afar per hour.
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It’s accompanying candid and nostalgic: The abbreviate gearbox, bound brakes, and massive torque force you to focus acutely on the act of driving—clutch in, shift, clamp out, press gas, rumble, go! Repeat. Meanwhile, the annular dashboard gauges, the beating of the V8 beneath abounding bore, and that backbreaking sound, abnormally back downshifting and in lower gears, accommodate a raw-metal acquaintance that makes avant-garde cars assume like accessories rather than machines for driving.
If you absolutely advance it you can get to 60 afar per hour in aloof over four seconds; top acceleration is 160mph.
Hit that, and your neighbors will apprehend you a mile away. It’s all appropriate if they do—you’ll accept told them all they charge to know.
The cars are bogus in Oklahoma.
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Every Archetypal Recreations Mustang comes with an official Shelby consecutive cardinal and is listed in the official Shelby Worldwide Registry.
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Each new Shelby GT begins with a archetypal Mustang base of the aboriginal 1965-1968 fastback body, stripped to bare bones. Everything on and beneath the car is bogus centralized and congenital from scratch.
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An alternative supercharger can accomplish the Ford agent into a monster with added than 1,000 horsepower.
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