Found: 1966 Shelby Mustang GT350H sunk in Ohio backyard 40 years
Can it be saved? We dig it out. Can that rust be fixed and how much? Shelby restorer Rick Parker reveals all at Boss Cars in Columbus, Ohio.
“As rusty as it is, and as ugly as it is, there is so much good here.” Rick Parker and his team from Signature Auto Classics, in Columbus, Ohio, were working with a pickaxe and shovels to dig out a 1966 Shelby G.T.350-H that had been parked in a backyard for nearly 40 years. The registration on the plate expired in 1981.
The entire car had sunk into the mud and might not have been worth the trouble except it was a real Shelby, one of the 936 G.T.350-H models that Shelby-American produced in the Rent-A-Racer program.
Most being automatic, these rental cars were once deemed slightly watered down and thus not destined to be as desirable as a basic four-speed 1966 G.T.350. Perhaps the wondrous black-with-gold paint stripe scheme, and the oddity of a real Shelby being available for $19.95 a day is what has put this car on a collector pedestal.
via: motortrend.com
