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1968 California Special GT/CS - Front View. In mid-February 1968, the California Ford Dealers (Ford Dealer Advertising Fund) began to market a factory-built, limited-edition Mustang, called the GT/CS, or "California Special". The hope was for a targeted production run of 5,000; however, only 4,118 were made, including 251 units that were ...
Carroll Hall Shelby (January 11, 1923 – May 10, 2012) was an American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur.. Shelby was involved with the AC Cobra and Mustang for Ford Motor Company.
Shinoda sold the Deuce coupe in 1953 to Don Montgomery and built a 1929 Ford roadster; [10] the coupe has since been identified and restored. [11] His '29 Ford, named "Chopsticks Special IV", was powered by a flathead V8 with Ardun OHV heads. [ 9 ]
The Shelby Racing Company moved from the hangar at LAX to a new office in Torrance, California. The Shelby Parts Company (later renamed to Shelby Autosports) moved to Torrance, and later to the Detroit area. [17] After 1968 Ford took functional control of the Shelby Mustang design and production, moving production in-house for the 1969 model year.
In 1967 there were 5 cars on display, including a 1967 Ford GT40 in the Shelby America booth and a drag-race-prepped Dodge Dart. [8] The early shows, held in Los Angeles and Anaheim, California, were exclusively card-table-and-masking-tape affairs, [ vague ] but by the early 1970s, sophisticated display and marketing techniques were visible ...
The Shelby Mustang is a high-performance variant of the Ford Mustang built by Shelby American from 1965 to 1967 and by the Ford Motor Company from 1968 to 1970. In 2005, Ford revived the Shelby nameplate for a high-performance model of the fifth-generation Ford Mustang .
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Featured vehicles include a 1970 Mustang that the owner's wife, Tanya (who received a restored pickup truck from him in the episode "Search for Soul") wants restored as a gift to him, but whose problematic quarter panel may make budgeting difficult for her; a 2004 Ford F150 truck belonging to an artist who creates portraits of fallen soldiers ...