1965 Shelby Mustang GT350

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GT350 SFM5R002 was the first Shelby Mustang competition car built by Shelby American. It is the engineering GT350 on which parts were tested for all competition GT350s built by Shelby American. It was featured in the movie 'Shelby Goes Racing with Ford.' At the end of 1965 Shelby American added VIN numbers to its two completed GT350s at random, which is why the first car ended up with the second VIN number. It was used for testing for all the competition GT350s by Ken Miles, Jerry Titus, Peter Brock, Chuck Cantwell, and Bob Bondurant. During 1965 and 1966 it was campaigned by the Shelby American team with 16 starts and 12 first place victories. It was sold in 1966 to Ford Engineer Bill Clawson who successfully raced it in 1966 and 1967. Clawson sold the car to Russell Fish who won 18 out of 21 races entered in 1968 and 1969. Finally, it was sold to Luis Blanq-Cacaux who successfully raced in Mexico for two years then parked it in an open shed in the desert. The car was found and brought back to this country in 1989 and displayed in the Shelby American Collection museum for several years. Recently, 5R002 was immaculately restored to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Ford Mustang and captured Best in Class Honors at the 2014 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.