Everything you wanted to know about Shelby's other monstrously powerful supercharged supercar, from its 1967 origins to today's 825-hp Hellcat hunter.
, it no longer served as the base for the Super Snake, and the two cars are now mutually exclusive vehicles.The 1967 GT500 Super Snake began as a marketing ploy by Goodyear. The tire manufacturer wanted to prove just how durable its new Thunderbolt radials were and asked Carroll Shelby to run wild with a car that could put them to the test. Happy to oblige, Shelby began with a regular GT500 and removed the original 355-horsepower, 428-cubic-inch V-8 engine.
, offering a minimum of 850 hp, and with the Shelby 1000 package offered to 2010-2014 Super Snake owners, they could have a car capable of up to 1,200 hp!2015 is where the GT500 and Super Snake take divergent paths. The SS had always been based on the GT500, but when Ford discontinued its king snake in 2014, Shelby had to shift its own gears when it came to building the Super Snake.
with a Shelby-specific interior highlighted by a custom carbon-fiber gauge cluster mounted on top of the center dash. Displayed there are analog readouts for fuel pressure, oil pressure, and of course, boost. Shelby floormats, sill plates, and a serialized Carroll Shelby Manufacturing plaque all remind passengers they aren't in a garden-variety Mustang.
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