GARTH BROOKS, CARROLL SHELBY GT350 AUCTION

The 2011 Shelby GT350 is the All-American Pony Car

The 2011 Shelby Mustang GT350 delivers aggressive performance, exhilarating handling and exceptional craftsmanship. Today's Shelby American team fuses advanced technology with sophisticated design to recreate the spirit, passion and performance that made this muscle car a legend. The all new GT350 remains true to the original, which raced its way to the Winners Circle in circuits across the country in 1965.

The 2011 Shelby GT350 represents the lessons learned over the past 45 years. The American muscle car embodies the passion, ingenuity and energy of Carroll Shelby and his team of hot rodders. With the spirit of the first cars built in 1965, the 2011 GT350 remains true to its heritage, but offers the heart-racing performance that can only be invoked through today's advanced engineering. The 2011 GT350 expresses the ultimate in American performance and design that is uniquely Shelby.

In the 1960’s when Ford Motor Company asked Carroll Shelby to turn their new Mustang into and all-American sports car, his answer was the Shelby Mustang GT350 from Shelby American.

Like the 1965 Shelby Mustang GT350, the 2011 GT350 starts with a Mustang and there the similarity ends. The 5.0L engine has been supercharged with a goal of over 500 HP.

Shelby American working with Ford Racing has engineered the suspension to provide un paralleled handling. Working with our partners at BAER Brakes we have stopping power to match the horsepower.

Exterior styling and interior appointments are keeping with the GT350’s performance heritage ... functional.

Carroll Shelby

Carroll Shelby has had an impressive impact on automotive racing and design over the last 50 years.

Starting out amateur, he soon became a driver for Cad-Allard, Aston Martin, Maserati teams during the 1950s and 60s. Following his driving career he opened a high performance driving school and the Shelby-American company. In the shop he designed and built the famed "Cobra" cars, which were derived from an AC chassis and used Ford engines.

Shelby went on to help design some of the most successful and beautiful cars of the era: the GT40, the Mustang-based Shelby GT350 and Shelby GT500, and of course the 427 Shelby Cobra. Parting with Ford,

Shelby moved on to help develop performance cars with divisions of the two other Big 3 American companies, Dodge, and Oldsmobile. The most memorable of these cars was the Dodge Viper.

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