Upon acquiring the car, the consignor began an exhaustive rotisserie restoration which was completed this summer. Once the car was stripped to bare metal, the body was found to be wonderfully preserved, with many panels bearing March 1966 date stampings including the doors, fenders, quarter panels, quarter wells, radiator support, aprons and rocker panels. The car was then meticulously reassembled following both Mustang Club of America and Shelby American Automobile Club 1966 Concours standards, going so far as…
Upon acquiring the car, the consignor began an exhaustive rotisserie restoration which was completed this summer. Once the car was stripped to bare metal, the body was found to be wonderfully preserved, with many panels bearing March 1966 date stampings including the doors, fenders, quarter panels, quarter wells, radiator support, aprons and rocker panels. The car was then meticulously reassembled following both Mustang Club of America and Shelby American Automobile Club 1966 Concours standards, going so far as to apply proper red-oxide primer with body color overspray and replicating factory chalk-markings, paint daubs, and bare steel finishes.
Furthermore, the car wears many trademarks unique to the GT350 Hertz cars including an Autolite 4100 CZ6F-F four-barrel carburetor, correct C Servo automatic transmission with March 1966 date casting, and 1966-only all-steel hood, which Shelby would quickly forgo in favor of the easier-to-fabricate fiberglass units. During the restoration, the car’s original Ford chassis number, located beneath its Shelby American chassis tag, was importantly found to match the stamping on its 289-cubic-inch “K-code” Hi-Po V-8 engine.
With superb documentation and sporting a fresh rotisserie restoration to exacting factory specifications, this numbers-matching engine GT350 “rent-a-racer” is sure to delight even the most discerning Shelby collector.