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Originally Posted by Jeff Lee
The Shelby name is a car company name. You can buy a Shelby through your Shelby "authorized" Ford dealer but it is still a Shelby. The vehicles that Shelby produces start with Ford platforms and Ford drivetrain but in the end they are Shelby's. That's why 1967 GT500's can race with non-existant (at the time) single 4bbl's et al, because Shelby (not Ford) signed the required NHRA documentation.
Today and for the last several years, Ford Motor Company has only produced for public roadways a Mustang with either a 4.6L V-8 and a V-6.
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Not so at all. There is a Shelby GT which is a regular Mustang sent to Shelby's facility across the street from the parking area at LVMS for cosmetic add-ons. The GT500 comes out of Detroit that way.