Monday, January 30, 2012

The Car Behind the 2013 Shelby GT Sells for Big Bucks

The car that accepted the 2013 Shelby GT 500 assembly Mustang could be a absoluteness was awash at the 41st Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Bargain backward Saturday night in Scottsdale, Ariz., for $350,000 with all gain benefiting charity.

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The car awash was the racetrack backbone car acclimated to advance the 2013 Shelby GT500 assembly Mustang. “This GT500 backbone car represents the best contempo accord amid Ford SVT and Carroll Shelby,” said Ford’s President of The Americas Mark Fields in a account fabricated accessible to Torque News. “Working alongside Carroll, our SVT aggregation put this backbone car through some of the best ambitious active altitude at Sebring International Raceway as able-bodied as others beyond the country. The aftereffect of those tests is the 2013 Ford Shelby GT500, the best able assembly V8 in the world.”

The backbone car was congenital in 2007 – one of the aboriginal cartage with the new 2010 body. Then, for the 2013 model, the ancestor was run for 24 hours at top speeds of 150 mph at Sebring to ensure all systems action appropriately for barter who will copy such arduous conditions.

The car includes a abounding cycle cage, six-point accouter seatbelts and new Recaro antagonism seats that were donated by Recaro North America, identical to those acclimated in development. The assembly 2013 Shelby GT500 will be accessible with alternative SVT-designed Recaro seats. Evidence of chart from development additionally can be begin central the vehicle. Each affiliate of SVT engineering who formed on the 2013 Shelby GT500 has active the base of the block lid.

“I raced on the Sebring International racetrack for abounding years, but my appetite was consistently to body my own car,” said Carroll Shelby. “It was agitative to be aback to coact on this GT500 backbone car with the SVT guys. I’m absolutely appreciative to accept my name on this car. They took my dreams of what a car should be and fabricated it a reality.”

All gain from the bargain of the car will account JDRF, a baton in analysis arch to a cure for blazon 1 diabetes. During the accomplished bristles years, Ford has aloft added than $3 actor for alms through sales of cartage at Barrett-Jackson auctions.

“Ford is appreciative of its advancing affiliation with JDRF in the action to acquisition a cure for blazon 1 diabetes,” said Edsel B. Ford II. “The activity and action at Barrett-Jackson creates the absolute ambiance for Ford to accession cogent funds that will advice accompany us afterpiece to a apple chargeless from diabetes.”

The ultimate Ford Mustang – Shelby GT500 – raises the bar aerial on achievement by carrying a analysis clue top acceleration of added than 200 mph. The 5.8-liter V8 aluminum-block agent produces 650 application and 600 lb.-ft. of torque, authoritative it the best able assembly V8 in the world. The 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 will be congenital at AutoAlliance International Plant in Flat Rock, Mich.

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