Not Enough Cash

[mpm32]

Being Cheesecake Master doesn't pay enough.....



Dreamin'

[BobbyG66]

Very nice.

I wonder what the payments would be?
Maybe take out a loan for 480 months? 

[TOK]

Thats a lot of cake  for a Mustang with a bunch of bolt-ons. What would it cost to buy a new GT and build that? 36k?

[AtomSmasher]

Thats a lot of cake  for a Mustang with a bunch of bolt-ons. What would it cost to buy a new GT and build that? 36k?

But you don't get the Shelby name when you do that 

I was actually thinking the same thing.  The mustang is an excellent entry level performance car, but for that much money I would want something quite a bit nicer.

[TOK]

If I had that much to spend on a car, I'd want Enzo Ferrari's name on it anyway. 

Shelby has lost a lot of cred to me. I loved Cobra's and 66-70 Mustangs, but he's stuck his name on some pretty sketchy stuff over the years, from Dodge Omni's and limp wristed Daytona's and pickup trucks. 
The Series 1 is pretty cool, and what I'd consider a "real" Shelby, and it ended up being kind of a lame duck with overstated horsepower. Wouldn't surprise me if the Mustang is the same way. Ford seems to be way overestimating horsepower on Mustangs in the last 10 years.

[Hoopz]

That's pretty sweet.  Would love to have a Mustang Saleen though.   

[mpm32]

If I had the choice between that or the GT, I'm not sure what I would take.

Ultimately I will get a nice '67 fastback that someone spent a lot of cash building up and will not get the same money out of it.  Non-matching numbers so I can drive the crap out of it.

That will look nice on my lift in the 3 car garage I will be building shortly. 

[TOK]

mpm32, I don't think I have any digital pics, but I had a 67 Fastback. It was a factory 289 4 speed with disc brakes. The weird thing is that it wasn't a GT, but the only GT option it was lacking was the grill lights... It also had none of the extras like the Pony interior or Rally Pack. Was a really cool car, but suffered from having to be my daily driver. The guy I sold it to had it totally stripped and restored.

After that, I had an 87 LX 5.0 with a lot of bolt-ons. That was a great car. I sold it to a buddy and his girlfriend wrecked it in like a month.

[mpm32]

Nice,

My uncle has a '67 with a 351 in it.  He keeps on threatening to give it to me, hasn't happened yet.  It's an automatic anyway.   

[boykster]

That's an awfully expensive ford....

I do have a soft spot for true Shelby cars though - and this does seem to be true to what Shelby used to do so well.  My father had a 289 AC Cobra (not mustang - a real Cobra) that I have fond childhood memories of.

For just south of $200k I'd be wanting something a bit more exotic however.....Ford just doesn't have that italiano ring to it