Shelby Super Snake

The Shelby Super Snake is the name Shelby American has used for its most extreme Mustang-based performance cars. The first was built in 1967 by Carroll Shelby and his team on the original GT500, using the V8 of the GT40 race car, as a tester for Goodyear; it proved so expensive that Shelby never built more than that one car. The name returned in 2007, when existing Shelby GT500 Mustangs could be sent to Shelby's Special Performance Plant in Las Vegas to be rebuilt as Super Snakes with supercharged engines, new wheels, brakes and suspension. From 2015 Shelby American built Super Snakes on the Mustang GT with a supercharged 5.0 litre V8, and a 50th anniversary version limited to 500 units offered up to 750 horsepower.