**The Ultimate Group B Racing Car: A Mustang with a Rich History**

As I stand before this magnificent machine, I am reminded of the rich history and exclusivity that comes with owning a Group B racing car. This particular Mustang, a Shelby GT500, has been part of a very select group of cars that have earned the coveted "Group B" designation. To be eligible for this prestigious category, a car must meet strict regulations, including being a specific model year and engine size, and having undergone rigorous testing to ensure its performance meets certain standards.

The Group B era was a time when manufacturers pushed the boundaries of what was possible in motorsports, often using unconventional materials and designs to gain an edge. This Mustang is no exception, with its sleek design and aggressive stance that sets it apart from other cars on the road. One of the most notable features of this car is the absence of windows, which were deemed non-essential for racing purposes. In their place, Lexan plastic panels have been installed to provide airflow and protection for the driver.

This car's story begins with its intended use as a dragster and hill climb racer. It was designed to be fast, agile, and responsive, with a powerful engine that could propel it from 0-60 in under four seconds. However, when the motor blew, the car was left sitting for decades, forgotten by all but a few enthusiasts who appreciated its raw performance potential.

Fast forward to today, where I have finally acquired this incredible machine and am eager to explore its capabilities. As the current owner, I plan to use it on both the street and the track, taking advantage of its unique features while also ensuring that it remains safe and enjoyable for all who get behind the wheel.

To prepare the car for road use, I intend to source a replacement Lexan panel to fit over the existing plastic panels. This will provide not only protection from the elements but also create an inviting entrance for passengers. On the other hand, the absence of traditional glass windows presents a challenge, as there is no secure way to prevent theft or tampering.

Another notable feature of this car is its fuel system, which has been modified to meet Group B regulations. With only 20 hours on the clock, this engine has barely broken a sweat, and its performance is still exceptional. As I gaze into the engine compartment, I am struck by the simplicity of its design – there are no frills or creature comforts here; just raw power and efficiency.

On the road, this Mustang will undoubtedly draw attention, thanks to its unique appearance and exclusive heritage. I envision myself cruising down the highway with the wind in my hair (or Lexan panels on my face), feeling the rush of adrenaline as I accelerate from 0-60 in under four seconds. The prospect of taking it out for a spin is exhilarating, knowing that I am driving one of only a handful of Group B-eligible cars still in existence.

**The Future: Plans and Possibilities**

As I continue to get to know this incredible machine, I am excited to explore its full potential. With the help of my friends and fellow enthusiasts, we plan to take it to the track and put it through its paces. We will monitor its performance, tweak its settings as needed, and push it to its limits in a controlled environment.

Meanwhile, on the street, I intend to use this car regularly, enjoying the benefits of its unique design while also being mindful of its limitations. I have already sourced replacement wheels with slick tires, which will enable me to swap between racing and road driving with ease. The exhaust system has been upgraded to take full advantage of the engine's potential, producing a sound that is both raw and music-like.

As word of this car spreads, I am confident that it will attract like-minded enthusiasts who share my passion for Group B racing and classic American muscle. Whether on or off the track, this Mustang is sure to put a smile on every face who lays eyes on it – a true original, built for speed, style, and exclusivity.

**A Special Connection: Commemorating My Ownership**

To celebrate this incredible journey, I have partnered with Free Radical Labs to create a limited-edition shirt featuring my trusty Mustang. This black Hertz car design with metallic gold stripes is sure to stand out among the crowd, making it an instant collector's item for any Group B enthusiast. The shirt will be available for pre-order soon, offering fans and fellow Mustang owners a chance to own a piece of this incredible machine.

And so, as I prepare to take my new friend home, I am filled with excitement and anticipation. This car has already become more than just a collection – it's a connection to the rich history of Group B racing, a symbol of exclusivity and power, and a reminder that sometimes, the most unlikely machines can become true treasures.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: endo first drive in my shelby race car the real deal i can't oh eventually i'll get going welcome to hooves garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and recently i listed all 40 of my cars for sale but i stopped myself at 23 so i sold a little over half of my cars and that left me with a pretty good nest egg the largest amount of cash that i have ever had in my entire life and a wise person would probably invest that wisely graham stevens watching this guy choke the screen tyler put it in real estate put it in the stock market and i can't do that so obviously i've been car shopping and the car that i found is really the car of my dreams and it is a vessel for me to achieve a lifelong goal and that is to get into vintage racing and it is the real deal a 1966 shelby gt 350 hertz rental racer one of a thousand unlike my green one that was just a tribute this is the real deal we're gonna go to just north of dallas to pick it up we're gonna take my trusty steed the conversion van a wonderful machine which i'll give a one year update on borrowed my neighbor's trailer i'm up at the crack of dawn for youtubers and that's nine in the morning to hit the road and pick up my dream car so there was no way that i was selling this van in my cellathon and if i did i just go buy another one because they are that good this is definitely the mvp of my fleet 2016 bought it with 40 something thousand miles now at 52 so about 10 000 miles in the last year flawless ownership it's hauled multiple families on trips all over the country and also gone to go pick up several cars like today and been on a few card tricks to help out if something were to break and usually i'm driving it and then somebody's in the back taking a nap i think tavares has taken a nap back there a few friends of mine have but now we're picking up the most expensive and significant thing this van has ever hauled and since it's a three-quarter ton truck basically it tows great i don't understand why people buy trucks and never use the beds when you get something like this and have so much practicality when it comes to hauling people or comfort with the family and then still have something that can tow with a giant tv and limo lighting and all that stuff it really is just the perfect machine and i have this over say an escalade which is more expensive any day of the week but we're getting close we're getting close to the mustang trusty steed all right here we go gary hey taylor how's it going good glad to meet you nice to meet you well here it is the cover's on it so i guess we can do the unveil here oh man it's the colors it's it's beautiful so a 66 hertz ren eraser one of a thousand or a thousand and one right yep the word racer applies much more to this one than say a normal hertz car because it's had a very interesting life wow it sure doesn't look like it was race though that's all that protected film that's on yeah yeah you can see it there holy moly and full out race car on the inside missing well it still has part of the dash bull bar pop-in steering wheel oh but it's perfect all right may i i i guess i bought it right yeah it's your account you told me on the phone the money was already spent right that's right i spent it all right a new gt500 on the wafer gary here okay well that wasn't so bad i fit it was made for me and you said the clutch was heavy it's oh it's it's it's like a light switch isn't it yeah it's on or off okay well can we start it up yeah so let me find it all right again it's got an anki sump so it'll remove the motor all right right back here this lever so you just open that up and it's pressurized and that's for oil to prime up the engine because it's well basically a racing engine so you don't want to start it up drying you know burn things up cold yeah so how long does that need to run just that just that yeah probably yeah it's probably good now okay so neutral neutral yes that switch switch ignition fuel fuel okay start button start button any pumps at all or it should be good whoa exhaust wow yeah let it warm up a little bit at least we can hear ourselves talk anyway should i turn off the fuel pump yeah okay just hit that switch yep got it okay 289 yes 12 to 1 compression and there's the legal bee production race motor yeah so i've seen these things race for so many years at laguna seca and other places and always wanted to be a part of the action of course never had the car and now i have i have no excuses but here it is and it's just it's hard to believe that this is a race car that was raised i mean a lot because it is so clean yeah you see the stickers and the windshield from um the rolex and sonoma and that was a all right now let's take a peek underneath i already saw all the pictures but that's just insane people would think this is a re-body but it's it's not just because of the story somewhat which this thing has quite a story so you have complete ownership history here starting with well the original title which they buy in 66 you know it's a 66 shelby he got it i think he got it in 67. here's what she paid for was it 18 no 8. two thousand four hundred and forty two dollars i paid slightly more for it uh even with inflation uh-huh came out of canyon ford in phoenix arizona and uh yeah i mean just all his story my favorite part is probably the photos though the period when he found it sitting for years of course this is after but uh right here yeah there it is lived as a hill climber and a dragster for years until it was i imagined 1975 in storage and then again 1998 was sold like this and then tommy took it and restored it into into this race car yeah and there he is with it out on the racetrack at laguna sega sonoma sears point and it was very very competitive car and still is because it's a legal be production race car so it meets all the specs of a 66b production car so no exotic stuff though you know the way they raced them back then and then of course then you know we get into kind of currently what it looks like today well and so all this is mine an extra seat original dash pinnacle and gauges it's mine i guess i'll take all this and load it in the van and then i'll take it around the block at least before i put it on the trailer i think i just i just have to i have to so yeah thank you so much appreciate it but this is definitely a light switch i mean it it is it is on or off for sure all right okay i'm gonna need both hands to work the steering wheel so let's just let's just attach it here there we go okay around the block first drive in my shelby race car the real deal i can't oh eventually i'll get going there we go oh yeah wow all right this is a full-out crazy race car whoa i can't wait to really give this thing a drive but uh let's try to get home but first let's stop let's just look at this thing and talk about how special it is this is unfreaking believable and another thing that's hard to believe is when the ford mustang came out in 1964 the executives were very very worried about the car they thought it was going to be another thing made fun of to be a secretary's car or something like that not the sports car that they intended for the mustang to be so lee iacocca actually went to carroll shelby and asked him hey how do we make these things appeal to mans men if you will how do we get these things racing and involved in motorsport and carol was basically like i got this and this was the creation the gt 350. if you've seen the recent ford versus ferrari movie you probably already know the story of basically ford trying to buy ferrari and enzo giving him the middle finger and that lighting a fire for them to beat ferrari on the track that was with the ford gt40 but this was shelby's production car now these 66s are really special because they were still built by shelby's team out of a hangar in california along with the cobras and after this well ford kind of took over production of the shelby mustangs built sort of on the assembly line with all the other mustangs so they're not quite as special now what makes this one very interesting is it was a hertz run eraser hertz actually had the bright idea you could rent a racer a real 300 plus horsepower shelby and that's what this started life as and the rumors go a lot of people race these things on the weekends or they stole the engine out of them swapped over parts to their home brew mustangs and a lot of them were destroyed i'm not sure how many are left on the shelby registry but a lot of them were ruined or wrecked when they were rentals or lost a time when they became worthless old cars and this one well this one was very lucky because after it was sold as a runner racer and not destroyed somebody used it as a dragster and a hill climb racer and then when the motor blew they just parked it they left it alone and it sat for decades and now that i have it and i barely know this thing a little bit let's start a tour of it and i'm going to tell you what my plans are for this car so this is what they call a group b race car and there is a very strict set of rules to be in this group to race basically 65 and 66 mustangs mostly shelbys and this one follows all the rules to a t almost to a detriment in some ways where you could actually do some things and still be legal the first one is no windows no windows at all you need to have the windows down obviously when you're racing so you can do hand signals and you can't really have say the stock glass windows in this car so you would have to source say the racing version of it which is some lexan that you would pull up with a strap and well i think i'm going to do that with this car because i do want to drive it on the street occasionally and be able to park it and not having windows it just kind of opens up the invitation for anybody to come in not to mention rain if it started raining then what do you do you just get wet and on the inside there's really not much to stop anybody from stealing this car instead of a key it's just a switch that's it you hit these switches in the starter button and you're off so anybody could drive off with this car probably not a bad idea to make this into a key and then maybe a dummy switch somewhere like my old mustang that i had to where somebody couldn't just you know put the wires together and drive off with it but you can see the glass here it's not glass it is it is plastic it is lexan you can see uh this goes inside to the cabin for air flow obviously have these windows down you want air flowing out of the car so there is an opening there which you can leave alone you have this to sort of hold the glass in full roll bar obviously no bumpers you have a tow hook the trunk no latch is just a clip and no fuel tank but a fuel cell racing legal would definitely leave that alone you can see the setup here for the fuel system and the engine hour meter kind of like a boat or a race car this thing has 20 hours on it so very very low hours when it comes to uh well being on the tracks this was basically a full-time track car and i do want to drive it on the road a little bit but i mean just look at this thing came with an extra set of wheels with slicks on it that are probably too old to use so you can swap the wheels over street tires on it right now the side pipe exhaust and then under the hood we have a beautiful engine certainly more power than 310 or something like that the original 350s had i think this one dinos at 375 which isn't too far off from my old supercharged 5-0 mustang believe it or not but very simple in here as you can see there are no creature comforts we are not adding prius electric steering or anything like that we are going to keep this bad boy group b racing legal which is well a very special thing because there's not a lot of hertz cars that are able to be in that category i was told maybe four or five of them and you're racing up against well real old race cars and rs and one of the r's recently sold at barrett-jackson that was driven by sterling moss in vintage racing sold for half a million dollars i guarantee you i didn't pay anywhere close to half a million dollars for this way way way less but still very expensive for a mustang but oh my god this might be the coolest mustang of all time and this one has an incredible story and well it's mine it's now owned by the owner of the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube it's i can't believe it and it's only possible because you all watch these videos you like my videos you subscribe to my channel if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe but thank you so much for watching and making this possible and i've actually got a way to commemorate the moment now i paired it with a new merch supplier free radical labs who is doing a pre-order on an incredible shirt based on this car a black hertz car with metallic gold stripes and the final product will be metallic gold on the shirt and it's absolutely gorgeous link below if you want to buy a herch shelby hoovey's garage shirt but now we need to load this thing up on the trailer and take it home yes take it home good youdo first drive in my shelby race car the real deal i can't oh eventually i'll get going welcome to hooves garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and recently i listed all 40 of my cars for sale but i stopped myself at 23 so i sold a little over half of my cars and that left me with a pretty good nest egg the largest amount of cash that i have ever had in my entire life and a wise person would probably invest that wisely graham stevens watching this guy choke the screen tyler put it in real estate put it in the stock market and i can't do that so obviously i've been car shopping and the car that i found is really the car of my dreams and it is a vessel for me to achieve a lifelong goal and that is to get into vintage racing and it is the real deal a 1966 shelby gt 350 hertz rental racer one of a thousand unlike my green one that was just a tribute this is the real deal we're gonna go to just north of dallas to pick it up we're gonna take my trusty steed the conversion van a wonderful machine which i'll give a one year update on borrowed my neighbor's trailer i'm up at the crack of dawn for youtubers and that's nine in the morning to hit the road and pick up my dream car so there was no way that i was selling this van in my cellathon and if i did i just go buy another one because they are that good this is definitely the mvp of my fleet 2016 bought it with 40 something thousand miles now at 52 so about 10 000 miles in the last year flawless ownership it's hauled multiple families on trips all over the country and also gone to go pick up several cars like today and been on a few card tricks to help out if something were to break and usually i'm driving it and then somebody's in the back taking a nap i think tavares has taken a nap back there a few friends of mine have but now we're picking up the most expensive and significant thing this van has ever hauled and since it's a three-quarter ton truck basically it tows great i don't understand why people buy trucks and never use the beds when you get something like this and have so much practicality when it comes to hauling people or comfort with the family and then still have something that can tow with a giant tv and limo lighting and all that stuff it really is just the perfect machine and i have this over say an escalade which is more expensive any day of the week but we're getting close we're getting close to the mustang trusty steed all right here we go gary hey taylor how's it going good glad to meet you nice to meet you well here it is the cover's on it so i guess we can do the unveil here oh man it's the colors it's it's beautiful so a 66 hertz ren eraser one of a thousand or a thousand and one right yep the word racer applies much more to this one than say a normal hertz car because it's had a very interesting life wow it sure doesn't look like it was race though that's all that protected film that's on yeah yeah you can see it there holy moly and full out race car on the inside missing well it still has part of the dash bull bar pop-in steering wheel oh but it's perfect all right may i i i guess i bought it right yeah it's your account you told me on the phone the money was already spent right that's right i spent it all right a new gt500 on the wafer gary here okay well that wasn't so bad i fit it was made for me and you said the clutch was heavy it's oh it's it's it's like a light switch isn't it yeah it's on or off okay well can we start it up yeah so let me find it all right again it's got an anki sump so it'll remove the motor all right right back here this lever so you just open that up and it's pressurized and that's for oil to prime up the engine because it's well basically a racing engine so you don't want to start it up drying you know burn things up cold yeah so how long does that need to run just that just that yeah probably yeah it's probably good now okay so neutral neutral yes that switch switch ignition fuel fuel okay start button start button any pumps at all or it should be good whoa exhaust wow yeah let it warm up a little bit at least we can hear ourselves talk anyway should i turn off the fuel pump yeah okay just hit that switch yep got it okay 289 yes 12 to 1 compression and there's the legal bee production race motor yeah so i've seen these things race for so many years at laguna seca and other places and always wanted to be a part of the action of course never had the car and now i have i have no excuses but here it is and it's just it's hard to believe that this is a race car that was raised i mean a lot because it is so clean yeah you see the stickers and the windshield from um the rolex and sonoma and that was a all right now let's take a peek underneath i already saw all the pictures but that's just insane people would think this is a re-body but it's it's not just because of the story somewhat which this thing has quite a story so you have complete ownership history here starting with well the original title which they buy in 66 you know it's a 66 shelby he got it i think he got it in 67. here's what she paid for was it 18 no 8. two thousand four hundred and forty two dollars i paid slightly more for it uh even with inflation uh-huh came out of canyon ford in phoenix arizona and uh yeah i mean just all his story my favorite part is probably the photos though the period when he found it sitting for years of course this is after but uh right here yeah there it is lived as a hill climber and a dragster for years until it was i imagined 1975 in storage and then again 1998 was sold like this and then tommy took it and restored it into into this race car yeah and there he is with it out on the racetrack at laguna sega sonoma sears point and it was very very competitive car and still is because it's a legal be production race car so it meets all the specs of a 66b production car so no exotic stuff though you know the way they raced them back then and then of course then you know we get into kind of currently what it looks like today well and so all this is mine an extra seat original dash pinnacle and gauges it's mine i guess i'll take all this and load it in the van and then i'll take it around the block at least before i put it on the trailer i think i just i just have to i have to so yeah thank you so much appreciate it but this is definitely a light switch i mean it it is it is on or off for sure all right okay i'm gonna need both hands to work the steering wheel so let's just let's just attach it here there we go okay around the block first drive in my shelby race car the real deal i can't oh eventually i'll get going there we go oh yeah wow all right this is a full-out crazy race car whoa i can't wait to really give this thing a drive but uh let's try to get home but first let's stop let's just look at this thing and talk about how special it is this is unfreaking believable and another thing that's hard to believe is when the ford mustang came out in 1964 the executives were very very worried about the car they thought it was going to be another thing made fun of to be a secretary's car or something like that not the sports car that they intended for the mustang to be so lee iacocca actually went to carroll shelby and asked him hey how do we make these things appeal to mans men if you will how do we get these things racing and involved in motorsport and carol was basically like i got this and this was the creation the gt 350. if you've seen the recent ford versus ferrari movie you probably already know the story of basically ford trying to buy ferrari and enzo giving him the middle finger and that lighting a fire for them to beat ferrari on the track that was with the ford gt40 but this was shelby's production car now these 66s are really special because they were still built by shelby's team out of a hangar in california along with the cobras and after this well ford kind of took over production of the shelby mustangs built sort of on the assembly line with all the other mustangs so they're not quite as special now what makes this one very interesting is it was a hertz run eraser hertz actually had the bright idea you could rent a racer a real 300 plus horsepower shelby and that's what this started life as and the rumors go a lot of people race these things on the weekends or they stole the engine out of them swapped over parts to their home brew mustangs and a lot of them were destroyed i'm not sure how many are left on the shelby registry but a lot of them were ruined or wrecked when they were rentals or lost a time when they became worthless old cars and this one well this one was very lucky because after it was sold as a runner racer and not destroyed somebody used it as a dragster and a hill climb racer and then when the motor blew they just parked it they left it alone and it sat for decades and now that i have it and i barely know this thing a little bit let's start a tour of it and i'm going to tell you what my plans are for this car so this is what they call a group b race car and there is a very strict set of rules to be in this group to race basically 65 and 66 mustangs mostly shelbys and this one follows all the rules to a t almost to a detriment in some ways where you could actually do some things and still be legal the first one is no windows no windows at all you need to have the windows down obviously when you're racing so you can do hand signals and you can't really have say the stock glass windows in this car so you would have to source say the racing version of it which is some lexan that you would pull up with a strap and well i think i'm going to do that with this car because i do want to drive it on the street occasionally and be able to park it and not having windows it just kind of opens up the invitation for anybody to come in not to mention rain if it started raining then what do you do you just get wet and on the inside there's really not much to stop anybody from stealing this car instead of a key it's just a switch that's it you hit these switches in the starter button and you're off so anybody could drive off with this car probably not a bad idea to make this into a key and then maybe a dummy switch somewhere like my old mustang that i had to where somebody couldn't just you know put the wires together and drive off with it but you can see the glass here it's not glass it is it is plastic it is lexan you can see uh this goes inside to the cabin for air flow obviously have these windows down you want air flowing out of the car so there is an opening there which you can leave alone you have this to sort of hold the glass in full roll bar obviously no bumpers you have a tow hook the trunk no latch is just a clip and no fuel tank but a fuel cell racing legal would definitely leave that alone you can see the setup here for the fuel system and the engine hour meter kind of like a boat or a race car this thing has 20 hours on it so very very low hours when it comes to uh well being on the tracks this was basically a full-time track car and i do want to drive it on the road a little bit but i mean just look at this thing came with an extra set of wheels with slicks on it that are probably too old to use so you can swap the wheels over street tires on it right now the side pipe exhaust and then under the hood we have a beautiful engine certainly more power than 310 or something like that the original 350s had i think this one dinos at 375 which isn't too far off from my old supercharged 5-0 mustang believe it or not but very simple in here as you can see there are no creature comforts we are not adding prius electric steering or anything like that we are going to keep this bad boy group b racing legal which is well a very special thing because there's not a lot of hertz cars that are able to be in that category i was told maybe four or five of them and you're racing up against well real old race cars and rs and one of the r's recently sold at barrett-jackson that was driven by sterling moss in vintage racing sold for half a million dollars i guarantee you i didn't pay anywhere close to half a million dollars for this way way way less but still very expensive for a mustang but oh my god this might be the coolest mustang of all time and this one has an incredible story and well it's mine it's now owned by the owner of the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube it's i can't believe it and it's only possible because you all watch these videos you like my videos you subscribe to my channel if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe but thank you so much for watching and making this possible and i've actually got a way to commemorate the moment now i paired it with a new merch supplier free radical labs who is doing a pre-order on an incredible shirt based on this car a black hertz car with metallic gold stripes and the final product will be metallic gold on the shirt and it's absolutely gorgeous link below if you want to buy a herch shelby hoovey's garage shirt but now we need to load this thing up on the trailer and take it home yes take it home good youdo first drive in my shelby race car the real deal i can't oh eventually i'll get going welcome to hooves garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and recently i listed all 40 of my cars for sale but i stopped myself at 23 so i sold a little over half of my cars and that left me with a pretty good nest egg the largest amount of cash that i have ever had in my entire life and a wise person would probably invest that wisely graham stevens watching this guy choke the screen tyler put it in real estate put it in the stock market and i can't do that so obviously i've been car shopping and the car that i found is really the car of my dreams and it is a vessel for me to achieve a lifelong goal and that is to get into vintage racing and it is the real deal a 1966 shelby gt 350 hertz rental racer one of a thousand unlike my green one that was just a tribute this is the real deal we're gonna go to just north of dallas to pick it up we're gonna take my trusty steed the conversion van a wonderful machine which i'll give a one year update on borrowed my neighbor's trailer i'm up at the crack of dawn for youtubers and that's nine in the morning to hit the road and pick up my dream car so there was no way that i was selling this van in my cellathon and if i did i just go buy another one because they are that good this is definitely the mvp of my fleet 2016 bought it with 40 something thousand miles now at 52 so about 10 000 miles in the last year flawless ownership it's hauled multiple families on trips all over the country and also gone to go pick up several cars like today and been on a few card tricks to help out if something were to break and usually i'm driving it and then somebody's in the back taking a nap i think tavares has taken a nap back there a few friends of mine have but now we're picking up the most expensive and significant thing this van has ever hauled and since it's a three-quarter ton truck basically it tows great i don't understand why people buy trucks and never use the beds when you get something like this and have so much practicality when it comes to hauling people or comfort with the family and then still have something that can tow with a giant tv and limo lighting and all that stuff it really is just the perfect machine and i have this over say an escalade which is more expensive any day of the week but we're getting close we're getting close to the mustang trusty steed all right here we go gary hey taylor how's it going good glad to meet you nice to meet you well here it is the cover's on it so i guess we can do the unveil here oh man it's the colors it's it's beautiful so a 66 hertz ren eraser one of a thousand or a thousand and one right yep the word racer applies much more to this one than say a normal hertz car because it's had a very interesting life wow it sure doesn't look like it was race though that's all that protected film that's on yeah yeah you can see it there holy moly and full out race car on the inside missing well it still has part of the dash bull bar pop-in steering wheel oh but it's perfect all right may i i i guess i bought it right yeah it's your account you told me on the phone the money was already spent right that's right i spent it all right a new gt500 on the wafer gary here okay well that wasn't so bad i fit it was made for me and you said the clutch was heavy it's oh it's it's it's like a light switch isn't it yeah it's on or off okay well can we start it up yeah so let me find it all right again it's got an anki sump so it'll remove the motor all right right back here this lever so you just open that up and it's pressurized and that's for oil to prime up the engine because it's well basically a racing engine so you don't want to start it up drying you know burn things up cold yeah so how long does that need to run just that just that yeah probably yeah it's probably good now okay so neutral neutral yes that switch switch ignition fuel fuel okay start button start button any pumps at all or it should be good whoa exhaust wow yeah let it warm up a little bit at least we can hear ourselves talk anyway should i turn off the fuel pump yeah okay just hit that switch yep got it okay 289 yes 12 to 1 compression and there's the legal bee production race motor yeah so i've seen these things race for so many years at laguna seca and other places and always wanted to be a part of the action of course never had the car and now i have i have no excuses but here it is and it's just it's hard to believe that this is a race car that was raised i mean a lot because it is so clean yeah you see the stickers and the windshield from um the rolex and sonoma and that was a all right now let's take a peek underneath i already saw all the pictures but that's just insane people would think this is a re-body but it's it's not just because of the story somewhat which this thing has quite a story so you have complete ownership history here starting with well the original title which they buy in 66 you know it's a 66 shelby he got it i think he got it in 67. here's what she paid for was it 18 no 8. two thousand four hundred and forty two dollars i paid slightly more for it uh even with inflation uh-huh came out of canyon ford in phoenix arizona and uh yeah i mean just all his story my favorite part is probably the photos though the period when he found it sitting for years of course this is after but uh right here yeah there it is lived as a hill climber and a dragster for years until it was i imagined 1975 in storage and then again 1998 was sold like this and then tommy took it and restored it into into this race car yeah and there he is with it out on the racetrack at laguna sega sonoma sears point and it was very very competitive car and still is because it's a legal be production race car so it meets all the specs of a 66b production car so no exotic stuff though you know the way they raced them back then and then of course then you know we get into kind of currently what it looks like today well and so all this is mine an extra seat original dash pinnacle and gauges it's mine i guess i'll take all this and load it in the van and then i'll take it around the block at least before i put it on the trailer i think i just i just have to i have to so yeah thank you so much appreciate it but this is definitely a light switch i mean it it is it is on or off for sure all right okay i'm gonna need both hands to work the steering wheel so let's just let's just attach it here there we go okay around the block first drive in my shelby race car the real deal i can't oh eventually i'll get going there we go oh yeah wow all right this is a full-out crazy race car whoa i can't wait to really give this thing a drive but uh let's try to get home but first let's stop let's just look at this thing and talk about how special it is this is unfreaking believable and another thing that's hard to believe is when the ford mustang came out in 1964 the executives were very very worried about the car they thought it was going to be another thing made fun of to be a secretary's car or something like that not the sports car that they intended for the mustang to be so lee iacocca actually went to carroll shelby and asked him hey how do we make these things appeal to mans men if you will how do we get these things racing and involved in motorsport and carol was basically like i got this and this was the creation the gt 350. if you've seen the recent ford versus ferrari movie you probably already know the story of basically ford trying to buy ferrari and enzo giving him the middle finger and that lighting a fire for them to beat ferrari on the track that was with the ford gt40 but this was shelby's production car now these 66s are really special because they were still built by shelby's team out of a hangar in california along with the cobras and after this well ford kind of took over production of the shelby mustangs built sort of on the assembly line with all the other mustangs so they're not quite as special now what makes this one very interesting is it was a hertz run eraser hertz actually had the bright idea you could rent a racer a real 300 plus horsepower shelby and that's what this started life as and the rumors go a lot of people race these things on the weekends or they stole the engine out of them swapped over parts to their home brew mustangs and a lot of them were destroyed i'm not sure how many are left on the shelby registry but a lot of them were ruined or wrecked when they were rentals or lost a time when they became worthless old cars and this one well this one was very lucky because after it was sold as a runner racer and not destroyed somebody used it as a dragster and a hill climb racer and then when the motor blew they just parked it they left it alone and it sat for decades and now that i have it and i barely know this thing a little bit let's start a tour of it and i'm going to tell you what my plans are for this car so this is what they call a group b race car and there is a very strict set of rules to be in this group to race basically 65 and 66 mustangs mostly shelbys and this one follows all the rules to a t almost to a detriment in some ways where you could actually do some things and still be legal the first one is no windows no windows at all you need to have the windows down obviously when you're racing so you can do hand signals and you can't really have say the stock glass windows in this car so you would have to source say the racing version of it which is some lexan that you would pull up with a strap and well i think i'm going to do that with this car because i do want to drive it on the street occasionally and be able to park it and not having windows it just kind of opens up the invitation for anybody to come in not to mention rain if it started raining then what do you do you just get wet and on the inside there's really not much to stop anybody from stealing this car instead of a key it's just a switch that's it you hit these switches in the starter button and you're off so anybody could drive off with this car probably not a bad idea to make this into a key and then maybe a dummy switch somewhere like my old mustang that i had to where somebody couldn't just you know put the wires together and drive off with it but you can see the glass here it's not glass it is it is plastic it is lexan you can see uh this goes inside to the cabin for air flow obviously have these windows down you want air flowing out of the car so there is an opening there which you can leave alone you have this to sort of hold the glass in full roll bar obviously no bumpers you have a tow hook the trunk no latch is just a clip and no fuel tank but a fuel cell racing legal would definitely leave that alone you can see the setup here for the fuel system and the engine hour meter kind of like a boat or a race car this thing has 20 hours on it so very very low hours when it comes to uh well being on the tracks this was basically a full-time track car and i do want to drive it on the road a little bit but i mean just look at this thing came with an extra set of wheels with slicks on it that are probably too old to use so you can swap the wheels over street tires on it right now the side pipe exhaust and then under the hood we have a beautiful engine certainly more power than 310 or something like that the original 350s had i think this one dinos at 375 which isn't too far off from my old supercharged 5-0 mustang believe it or not but very simple in here as you can see there are no creature comforts we are not adding prius electric steering or anything like that we are going to keep this bad boy group b racing legal which is well a very special thing because there's not a lot of hertz cars that are able to be in that category i was told maybe four or five of them and you're racing up against well real old race cars and rs and one of the r's recently sold at barrett-jackson that was driven by sterling moss in vintage racing sold for half a million dollars i guarantee you i didn't pay anywhere close to half a million dollars for this way way way less but still very expensive for a mustang but oh my god this might be the coolest mustang of all time and this one has an incredible story and well it's mine it's now owned by the owner of the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube it's i can't believe it and it's only possible because you all watch these videos you like my videos you subscribe to my channel if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe but thank you so much for watching and making this possible and i've actually got a way to commemorate the moment now i paired it with a new merch supplier free radical labs who is doing a pre-order on an incredible shirt based on this car a black hertz car with metallic gold stripes and the final product will be metallic gold on the shirt and it's absolutely gorgeous link below if you want to buy a herch shelby hoovey's garage shirt but now we need to load this thing up on the trailer and take it home yes take it home good you\n"