I had case of deja vu when I read about this and that’s because I posted about it over a year ago. It’s the alleged to be the first mustang ever produced and sold to the public and once again it’s for sale for the bargain price of $US5.5 million

I’m not sure if it’s the price tag but it seems like they’ve had some trouble offloading this car which is said to be a 1964 1/2 Mustang convertible #100212, and is believed to be the first Mustang built on the assembly line, on the first day of retail production! And the reason why they believe it is the first is because in 45 years, no other documented delivery date of April 16 has been produced.

The car was delivered with the following options: Wimbleton White- Base 260 2V V8 Engine- Cruise-O-Matic Transmission- Rally Pac- Power Brakes- Power Steering- Power Convertible Top- Padded Visors- Back Up Lights- Heavy Duty Battery- Full Length Console- Tinted Windshield- Pushbutton Radio and Antenna- Rocker Panel Mouldings- Wheel Covers Deluxe with Spinners- Magic Aire Heater Delete and Credit- Seat Belt Delete and Credit- White Wall Tires- Outside Mirrors (2)__Compass- Inside Day- Night Mirror 2 Spd Electric Wiper and Washer.

So if you’re in the market for a 45 year old 5.5 million dollar car then you’re in luck. There’s still a few days left on the auction, I somehow think it won’t sell but you never know.

[Ebay] via [Jalopnik]

A new one to the readers rides on 67mustangblog. Andrew contacted me last week to tell me about his sweet ride. This beautiful red 1967 Fastback he’s named ‘Hayley’

“I’ve been a big fan of Eleanor since I saw the Nic Cage film, and had always dreamed of owning my own beast.” Andrew Says. “I finally picked up a ’67 Fastback a few months ago, with the intention of building an Eleanor”.

The car was named Hayley after the red-haired singer from the alternative rock band Paramore and is a right hand drive car with a 02, 4 speed top-loader and Motec fuel-injection.

Such is the dedication to this build Andrew has rented his house out and moved back to his folks place. Why? Well his father has a workshop, no better place to live than at the workshop! Work begins in a few weeks but there is a problem! “I now have this dilemma” he says. “I’ve kind of grown fond of the classic Muscle Car look of it!! So I’m stuck between an Eleanor and the classic look.”

After pressing some more Andrew admits “As much as I love the Eleanor mustangs, I think I’m going to keep her stock. I have a poster of Eleanor in my lounge room, so I’ll just look at her each night, satisfied with knowing I could’ve had her if I wanted to”
I’ll keep you updated on this one as Andrew has promised to send me regular picture updates!

Hat tip to Andrew.

The Classic Recreations site has been updated with the three GT500CR models that are going to be produced. The concept models, named Intro, Performance and Venon come in a range of colours and range from $US119,000 to $US199,000. Check out the spec breakdown after the jump.

It’s all pretty self explanitory, so ‘ve just done the lazy thing and pasted it here for you all. Keep in mind the images are just concept designs and may change when they go into production. Classic Recreations have also told me that various parts will be made available to mustang fans and builders, including the various GT500CR parts. This may also mean Carroll Shelby Signature gauges and seats but is yet to be confirmed.

As always stay tuned for more updates.

Color availability:
Grey/Black ,Red/White, Blue/White, Black/Grey, Yellow/White

Drivetrain:
427 C.I Crate Engine (545 H.P.)
Mass Flo Fuel Injection
Tremec Manual Transmission
9″ Fab 9 rear w/ 3:70 Gear ratio and Posi Traction installed
Concept one pulley system
150HP NOS Nitrous system (disarmed)

Steering:
TCP Rack and Pinion conversion (Power)
Flaming River Tilt column (polished)

Interior:
Carroll Shelby signature seats
Simpson 5 point camlock seatbelts
Carroll Shelby Signature gauges
160mph Speedometer
Woodgrain Aluminum steering wheel
Old air products A/C system
Deluxe 1967 door panels
Deluxe 1967 dash and trim
Carroll Shelby G.T.500CR Console
Carroll Shelby G.T.500CR Floormats

Stereo system:
Pioneer CD player w/ removable face
Classic Recreations LLC. custom trap door
Polk Audio coaxial speakers

Wheels and tires:
Shelby 427 Wheels 17X8 front
Shelby 427 Wheels 17×8 Rear
High performance z rated tires (Goodyear) 245/40/17 Front
High performance z rated tires (Goodyear) 245/40/17 Rear

Exterior:
Shelby sequential tail lights
Shelby G.T.500CR Emblems
Authentic Carroll Shelby Exterior Fiberglass Enhancements
Sequential Shelby taillights
Carroll Shelby G.T.500CR Emblems
Carroll Shelby Lemans racing gas cap

Fuel:
Electric Fuel pump
Stealth 18 gal Fuel cell

Brakes:
Front: Shelby/Baer 13″X1.1″ track system
Rear: Shelby/Baer 12″X.81″ touring system
Slotted, Crossdrilled and zinc washed
Adjustable rear proportioning valve

Electrical:
Trunk mounted battery
MSD Ignition

Exhaust:
JBA Ceramic coated headers
Dual 2.5″ Exhaust
Spintek Mufflers

Cooling:
Becool Aluminum Crossflow Radiator
2-13″ electric cooling fans

Chassis:
Tubular Sub frame connectors
Shock tower bracing
Cosmetic Rollbar

Suspension:
Performance tuned front suspension
Performance tuned rear suspension
Sway bars front and rear

Color availability:
Grey/Black ,Red/White, Blue/White, Black/Grey, Yellow/White

Drivetrain:
427 C.I Crate Engine (545 H.P.)
Mass Flo Fuel Injection
Tremec Manual Transmission
9″ Fab 9 rear w/ 3:70 Gear ratio and Posi Traction installed
Concept one pulley system
150HP NOS Nitrous system (disarmed)

Steering:
TCP Rack and Pinion conversion (Power)
Flaming River Tilt column (polished)

Interior:
Carroll Shelby Scat Rally series 1000 seats
Simpson 5 point camlock seatbelts
Carroll Shelby Signature gauges
160mph Speedometer
Woodgrain Aluminum steering wheel
Old air products A/C system
Deluxe 1967 door panels
Deluxe 1967 dash and trim
Carroll Shelby G.T.500CR Console
Carroll Shelby G.T.500CR Floormats

Stereo system:
Pioneer CD player w/ removable face
Classic Recreations LLC. custom trap door
Polk Audio coaxial speakers

Wheels and tires:
Shelby 427 Wheels 17X8 front
Shelby 427 Wheels 17×9.5 Rear
High performance z rated tires (Goodyear) 245/45/17 Front
High performance z rated tires (Goodyear) 275/40/17 Rear

Exterior:
Shelby sequential tail lights
Shelby G.T.500CR Emblems
Authentic Carroll Shelby Exterior Fiberglass Enhancements
Sequential Shelby taillights
Carroll Shelby G.T.500CR Emblems
Carroll Shelby Lemans racing gas cap

Fuel:
Electric Fuel pump
Stealth 18 gal Fuel cell

Brakes:
Front: Shelby/Baer 13″X1.1″ track system
Rear: Shelby/Baer 12″X.81″ touring system
Slotted, Crossdrilled and zinc washed
Adjustable rear proportioning valve

Electrical:
Trunk mounted battery
MSD Ignition

Exhaust:
JBA Ceramic coated headers
Dual 2.5″ Exhaust
Spintek Mufflers

Cooling:
Becool Aluminum Crossflow Radiator
2-13″ electric cooling fans

Chassis:
Tubular Sub frame connectors
Shock tower bracing
Cosmetic Rollbar

Suspension:
Total Control Front Coilover
Total Control Rear Coilover system
Total Control Sway bars front and rear

Color availability:
Grey/Black ,Red/White, Blue/White, Black/Grey, Yellow/White

Drivetrain:
427 C.I Crate Engine (780 H.P.)
Mass Flo Fuel Injection
Tremec Manual Transmission
9″ Fab 9 rear w/ 3:70 Gear ratio and Posi Traction installed
Concept one pulley system
150HP NOS Nitrous system (disarmed)
F1-R Procharger Intercooled w/17PSI of boost

Steering:
TCP Rack and Pinion conversion (Power)
Flaming River Tilt column (polished)

Interior:
Carroll Shelby Scat Rally series 1000 seats
Simpson 5 point camlock seatbelts
Carroll Shelby Signature gauges
200mph Speedometer
Woodgrain Aluminum steering wheel
Old air products A/C system
Deluxe 1967 door panels
Deluxe 1967 dash and trim
Carroll Shelby G.T.500CR Console
Carroll Shelby G.T.500CR Floormats

Stereo system:
Pioneer CD player w/ removable face
Classic Recreations LLC. custom trap door
Polk Audio coaxial speakers

Wheels and tires:
Shelby 427 Wheels 17X8 front
Shelby 427 Wheels 17×11 Rear
High performance z rated tires (Goodyear) 245/45/17 Front
High performance z rated tires (Goodyear) 315/35/17 Rear

Exterior:
Shelby sequential tail lights
Shelby G.T.500CR Emblems
Authentic Carroll Shelby Exterior Fiberglass Enhancements
Sequential Shelby taillights
Carroll Shelby G.T.500CR Emblems
Carroll Shelby Lemans racing gas cap

Fuel:
Electric Fuel pump
Stealth 18 gal Fuel cell

Brakes:
Front: Shelby/Baer 13″X1.1″ track system
Rear: Shelby/Baer 12″X.81″ touring system
Slotted, Crossdrilled and zinc washed
Adjustable rear proportioning valve

Electrical:
Trunk mounted battery
MSD Ignition

Exhaust:
JBA Ceramic coated headers
Dual 2.5″ Exhaust
Spintek Mufflers

Cooling:
Becool Aluminum Crossflow Radiator
2-13″ electric cooling fans

Chassis:
Tubular Sub frame connectors
Shock tower bracing
Cosmetic Rollbar

Suspension:
Total Control Front Coilover
Total Control Rear Coilover system
Total Control Sway bars front and rear

A few weeks ago I posted a video on Unique Performance by Hot Rod TV. Obviously an old video from the time when Unique were at the top of their game. But now I’ve just seen a brand spanking new video Hot Rod TV have put together entitled ‘Hollywood Muscle’.

The 22 minute video aims to find out why the Muscle car is still the star of the silver screen. Featuring the Bullitt Mustang and of course Eleanor it’s well worth the watch. The video also feautres other non Mustangs but it’s from about the 5:00 mark that you want to watch.

Well the wait is over and the Classic Recreations website has just gone live with what is some really exciting news that this I certainly did not expect. Carroll Shelby has granted Classic Recreations a license to create an iconic continuation official Shelby GT500CR

“I am humbled and honored by the opportunity to work with a legend like Carroll Shelby,” said Classic Recreations owner Jason Engel. “We pride ourselves on building the finest coachbuilt muscle cars in the world, and I’m thrilled that this new opportunity will allow us to build some of the fastest and coolest supercars on the road today. Other shops build cars. We sit down with a client, listen to their fantasies, and then turn those into reality.”

Every Shelby GT500CR will be built with authentic Shelby Performance parts and with input and oversight from Carroll Shelby Licensing and Shelby Automobiles technical staff. Each car built at the Classic Recreations facility will leave the shop with an official Shelby serial number, badges and will be included in the official Shelby Worldwide Registry. More details on the new model will be released shortly.

“We are still working out a few details, but I know Shelby fans will love the new car,” Engel said. “It retains the most iconic Shelby elements everyone loves with modern performance and supercar level horsepower. Then add the panache of having a real Shelby GT500CR complete with a serial number and the man’s name right on the rocker panel. For Mustang fans, you absolutely can’t beat that.”

Classic Recreations is the first custom car builder to receive an official license to build the new GT500CR model.

I’ll keep you all in the loop with this one as more details come to hand. Big thanks to Jason for the exclusive!

[Source]

Well the project is finished and the lights are on their way to Australia. Overall quite a quick and painless process.

This time I wanted to make sure that lights were extremely secure, and after seeing a cool HID Retrofit on an old mini and how they made an eclosure to protect the unit. With this in mind I had my retrofitter do something similar.

Take a look at the photos. You can see we’ve enclosed the entire unit in a PVC round enclosure. It looks great and solid, however we also did note that it would not fit into the the Mustang.

I know we’ll need to do some cutting and I can only hope we can get these in other wise it will be yet another expensive headlight exercise. Fingers crossed.

I’ll post up some more detailed photos when they arrive, probably next week sometime.

Every week I read car reviews about the latest Porsche or Lamborghini that’s hit the street, but I always love it when I come across in depth reviews of our very own Eleanor and finding a good review of a 1967 Mustang is very hard to find. But today is a good day because the guys over at Autoblog were handed the keys to a Classic Recreations Eleanor and have put together a great review.

We all know the back story of Eleanor so I’ll save you history so here’s what the Autoblog guys have said. “When we got a call offering us the actual car from that movie for the weekend, we felt obliged to say yes… and then drive it like we stole it. The verdict: Eleanor is the hottest piece of car we’ve spent a weekend with in quite some time.”

I won’t copy and paste the whole review here. So CLICK HERE to check out the Autoblog review along with some great pics.

[Source]

Well this one came a bit out of left field. Riley PM, You may remember as one of the two companies Shelby authorised to finish off those cars from Unique Performance which were either unfinished or had problems. Though this week at the Barrett Jackson auction in Las Vegas Riley PM auctioned off the first of their Shelby Continuation vehicles. The Shelby GT500 SE.

Now i’m not sure what the deal is here. Are they doing what UP was? Are they now building Eleanors under a new name? Either way they have Carroll Shelby’s blessing to use his name. So expect to see these cars with Carroll Shelby signature seats, gauges the works.

But back to this car. It sold at auction for a whopping $330,000.

“The 1st continuation GT500SE Super Snake to be produced. Powered by a Supercharged aluminum Shelby 427 FE with 780hp. Features include the Tremec TKO 5-speed and coilover suspension. Signed by Carroll Shelby at Barrett-Jackson, Palm Beach. ”

She certainly looks great. Here are the full details from the auction:

“This is the 1st continuation GT500SE Super Snake produced by a licensed Shelby builder under a recent agreement with Carroll Shelby Licensing allowing select builders to produce a very limited number of GT500SE continuation Shelbys.

The GT500SE continuation Shelby line will likely become one of the most exclusive vehicles in the Shelby registry with the GT500SE Super Snake at the top of the line for performance. It is powered by a 780hp all-aluminum Supercharged Shelby big block 427 FE engine and is one of the fastest Shelby cars on the road today.

The Tremec TKO 5-speed transmission and Currie nodular 9-plus rear-end is designed to deliver more horsepower to the rear wheels. It is equipped with front and rear coilover suspension, Baer Brakes and the Chris Alston Chassisworks power steering system to significantly improve handling and performance on the street or the track.

The PSE wheels and G-Force tires provide both style and performance. The exterior styling is further enhanced by sequential tail lights, the Cobra-style LeMans gas lid, Shelby emblems and PIAA front lights. It has been painted Vivid Black with Hellfire Candy Red stripes to provide an even more striking appearance.

This GT500SE also bears the signature of Carroll Shelby across the hood of the car, which it had the honor of receiving at its début during the 2009 Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Event. It is one of the most impressive Super Snakes ever built and it delivers a level of performance that very few cars in its class can match. The interior includes the GT500SE badging, Shelby-style gauges, center console and the package tray with the PSE spare tire.

The 5-point racing harness and leather interior provide both comfort and safety. The modern air conditioning system keeps the interior cool and the stereo supplies great sound without drowning out the roar of the engine. Don’t miss this opportunity to own the 1st Shelby GT500SE Super Snake to be produced.

It is an incredible machine. Barrett-Jackson has been notified by the seller of Lot 701 that there is a discrepancy between the VIN on this vehicle and the title issued in the State of Texas.

The seller has discussed this issue with the appropriate agencies in Texas, and will work with the successful bidder to ensure the issue is resolved satisfactorily.”

Stay tuned to the Classic Recreations website over the next week or so. The site is currently down and displaying a neat countdown and text saying “Classic Recreations is currently revising and updating our website. Our website should be current and active 10-23-09. We have Exciting News about the all new CR Model to be released soon. Stay Tuned”

One can only imagine what new model will be released. Be sure to check back here and where I’ll be posting up all the details over the next few days.

It was only a few weeks ago I posted about my second attempt at a superior headlight system for the Mustang, this time a Bi-Xenon headlight setup which would be a big step up from the single Xenon project I did a year or so ago. Well good news is it’s taking shape and looks damn fine! Check out the pics after the jump.

My mate who is putting them together for me is great. He’s quick and his attention to detail is great! Though we do have one problem which I knew we would encounter.

Last time with the single Xenon setup it was very tight for space in the car, you could maybe fit a few fingers in before you hit the fram of the engine bay which would make it extremely hard to change the globe but it was do-able. Now with the Bi-xenon projectors we’re hell out of room. The projectors themselves are longer. From the front of the headlight lens to the back of the projector without the ignitor cap on is about 5.5″ long. With the ignitor, we are probably looking at about 6″ at least. So all together with some type of rear covering, we are going to be looking at a total length of 6.5″ long at the very most and probably about 6″ girth for the covering of the projector in the rear.

But this is all ok. I’ve spoken to John, my builder, and if we must we can cut into the frame, I think that’s what it’s called. Now don’t freak out. We’ve seen this done before with other light setups. Just a small round hole to enable the back of the light to be accessible to change globes and what not. Anyway take a look at the photos. Looks GREAT!