You may remember my post about Richard’s 815hp Shelby Super Snake Eleanor. Most have seen it. After all it’s been the most popular story on the site this year! Well while building his master piece Richard kept a very in-depth and detailed log of all the process he went through in the build right down to part numbers and where to buy the parts. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been a good few months for restorers of classic Mustangs, firstly with the arrival of the new reproduction 1967/1968 A/C Register Kit and now another hard to find rare part is being reproduced, the 1967 68 Mustang Fastback Weatherstrip Channel Retainers. Ok big whoop you may say, but every new bit makes the difference. Read the rest of this entry »
So when I started out with this project I don’t think I knew what I was in for. I didn’t know how much money I was going to have to spend, but as always with me, I love a challenge and I know the money will be well spent. So for those of you wishing to do the same thing as me take note.
Probably the major factor in the cost of such a project is that I am located in Australia. So getting a car here was costly. The car itself, shipping, import fees, agent fees, taxes etc. came to about $AUD20,000. That’s just getting the car here in its unrestored stripped back form as seen here. Read the rest of this entry »
Well sort of. One of the members of the Eleanor forum has put together a cool little video of his Eleanor, with a story line as well. The car is running a Supercharged 5.4L with wet plate NOS. The noise coming from that supercharger is just immense. Very much worth the watch.
I had an interesting email this week from one of my readers who was browsing the stories of the 1965 Playboy Pink cconvertible that my builder has. Tony read the post and thought he would email in the pictures of his car. A 1967 Pink Convertible that has quite a unique story to it. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s not too often one of these come up. It’s one of the original movie cars from the 2000 remake of Gone In 60 Seconds. 11 cars were constructed for Jerry Bruckheimer for use in the movie. Each was used for different purposes, some for close-ups and some with beefed up suspension for stunts. Read the rest of this entry »
The second Unique Performance auction held by Rosen Systems which I posted about last week has finally had it’s catalogue uploaded to the website. Among the 401 items going under the hammer on June 24th are quite a number of body shells in various states of completion. Some 39 shells in fact. Read the rest of this entry »
So last week I said things were starting to move along and the car was going in for it’s right hand drive conversion. News just in is that the body kit has almost been removed so she can go in for her conversion. Read the rest of this entry »
This may be a few months old but I have only just seen this myself. It’s a great new commercial for the 2008 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, but what makes this commercial even cooler is that use of a 1968 Shelby GT500 as well. Read the rest of this entry »
