1966 Shelby

This car is serial #2167 and is in the Shelby registry and noted as follows: ordered 4-28-66, shipped to Holiday Ford (Sunnyvale, CA) 5-20-66, they were billed $3,728.75 and sold to the first owner in San Jose, CA. The car was purchased by the next owner, renowned Shelby expert, Connie Moore in 1980 and sold to another man who bought it just to make a profit , and sold it right away to John Hocker, who kept it until his death in 2011. The car was born blue without Lemans stripes and painted magnum 500's. Upon his purchase he hired Connie Moore to install a Gurney-Eagle Westlake racing engine with a period correct Paxton super charger, headers, etc. It is a factory 4 spd car with the fiberglass & steel frame hood, underside traction bars, no package shelf. During the time Mr. Hocker performed the upgrades 10 spoke Shelby wheels and white Lemans stripes were added. it also has a new set of blue streak goodyear rwl bias ply tires. It is a mostly original low mile car with only one repaint in the early 80's and still retains mostly original interior. It is a Mustang monthly magazine car with lots of receipts from the period. The engine short block is a boss 302 that has been balanced and blue printed along with the aluminum Gurney-Eagle heads and Paxton super charger. It is one stout running GT 350 Shelby. It has many more details to numerous to mention here but all go with the car at time of sale. It is an awesome piece of Shelby Mustang History and a well known car in the Shelby community !