If you haven’t noticed lately, a lot of news in the Ford and Mustang world has come out of Scottsdale, Arizona, this past month thanks to the annual Barrett-Jackson auction. We reported that six out of eight of Dennis Collins’ mixture of Mustangs sold at said auction, breaking world records in the process. While Collins’ Mustangs brought in big numbers for his respective Mustangs; in today’s segment, we bring you this incredible 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang, which sold for nearly half of a million dollars last weekend ($445,500 to be exact).
After reviewing supporting documentation (and a bit of deeper research), this ’65 Shelby GT350 which is serial number SFM5S21 reveals a completion month and year of May, 1965, from Shelby American Inc. From there, this GT350 was immediately shipped to Herb Tousley Ford in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, for retail sale according to the ad on Barrett-Jackson.
The ad goes on to detail that in the last months of 2016, this 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang underwent, “a very thorough service, including the fitment of five new, correct Goodyear Blue Dot tires. At the same time, a freshening of the cosmetic restoration was performed to achieve the concours-level presentation on this car,”
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