Grabber Green 1970 Shelby GT500 and the FBI - AUTOHUNTER [4K]

This 1970 Shelby GT500 in beautiful Grabber Green is not what you think.

Shelby did not produce any 1970 Shelby GT500s, but instead updated all of the VIN numbers on the unsold 1969 GT500s with the help of the FBI. Carroll Shelby had also discontinued his partnership with Ford in 1969 so these models were simply listed as Shelby GT500s.

These vehicles also had a variety of features not available in the standard Mustang. The styling featured on the 1969 and 1970 model years included a four-inch stretch to the front nose, which was designed and approved by Ford, but Shelby had no input. One of the exciting features are the sequential taillights, which were not a Mustang feature, but instead were available on the Mercury Cougar.

[TysonHugie]

That's interesting about the 1969 bodies being repurposed as 1970 models. Learn something new every day!

[phillipanderson]

I remember back in the early 1980s seeing a shelby mustang 1969 with the same color but the stripes were gold color. The car was sitting in a garage facing outward and the right front fender had damage to it. The story behind the car was the mans son had wrecked the car and it had only about 18000 miles on it at that time. The car sit there for a long time. The mans brother lived across the street and he said the car use to belong to roy orbison the singer. I don't know how true that is but it was something you didn't see every day. The owner lived in Nashville, tn.