We Drag Race A New and Classic Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 To See What 50 Years Of Progress Makes!

This is one of the most

classic

cars of all time, it is a 1967 Mustang Shelby

gt500

fastback and this is a new version of it, it is the 2020 Shelby

gt500

and under the hood of the old vehicle there is a giant seven-liter V8 that when it was new it went off. 350 horsepower under the hood of the new one to supercharge it to 5.2 liters making 760 horsepower and I had the opportunity to take both cars to the

race

track and the question is how much faster is a new car, well just there is one. way to find out in 1967, the Shelby didn't have much technology;

In fact, probably the most interesting technology on the vehicle was the dual carbs and ham radio, but the new car has a lot of interesting technology, let's start with line lock, the guys at Ford were kind enough to show me how to make a burnout easy, now we will talk about how to enter the line locks, press the Cobra button for the tail taxis to press it and then go up to the line lock, ok, ok. so let me tell you about it and Madrazo, it's a three step process, yeah, hold down the LK button, it's about 4 seconds, you see a wheel build up, yeah, and then you release the button ok, ok, and I'll say that you press the brake pedal firmly, no joke, very firmly to the ground while it's still pressed holding it against the floor, you'll press the ok button for about two like one two and release it, it's not a bump, it's okay and that's not a hole, okay?

At that point we should feel a small vibration in the brake pedal, yes, that is the front brake lock that gives the rear brakes release and play, at that point you will see a time or 15 seconds, that is your line, good luck, You can release the brake pedal. You can make the launch line lock in three ways, press the brake pedal or press OK and of course launching a new Shelby GT500 can be tricky, but not if you have launch control once again. Ford showed me how to do it. perfect lunch every time, easy, lemon squeezer, okay, so let's go to Cobra, okay, Cobra again to access the menus, okay, let's click OK to track applications and then go down to start control to set your rpm, click on rpm, its selectable, we go up 200 that last one. time just a hair two months let's lower it to 1500 rpm a two foot operation then the brake yes you don't have to match well as soon as you see the yellow brake light lifter and then you'll go I mean no accelerator pedal feathered hammer everything the road 760 ponies you have it so the question is label it in the store worried about 2,000 feet above sea level slows down the car

what

a swamp there, but it's 3.30 216 yeah, I bet it's 3.30 16 but We're getting to the level of the sea ​​in ideal conditions with someone who is much lighter than me, let's say above, okay, there's my time slip, my et not so great eleven point four nine one, but look at the speed of 130 miles per hour, that's quite. fast so I'm half a second away from being 10th yeah that's not good that's embarrassing but yeah Corden should allow himself a 10 second car he probably needs a bit more of an experienced driver to pull it off so this it's a Haggerty car it's insured and owned yes absolutely yes this was actually used at a lot of our driving events it allowed people to get behind the wheel and experience

what

these things were like.

Now, this is a 67 fastback GT 500 Shelby, right, which means that it's I got the 428 seven liter v8, yeah the horsepower that I had on it was rated at 355 horsepower and what for the Today's standards doesn't sound like much, but that was a huge number in 1967, yes, compared to 760, that's right, that's right, how fast it was. From zero to 60, remember? You know, later today we'll take it out on the straight strip and we can tell you exactly how fast it will be, but you know the quarter mile you're looking at, 14 to 15, something like that. Mind you, 10s 11s with this depending on who drives it and if you were lucky enough to buy one of these back in the day, what would it cost $4,200?

Compared to a standard '67 Mustang fastback, it was $2,500, so it was a substantial premium. torque, yes, almost, this was a purpose-built

drag

car, it was meant to go as fast as possible in a straight line, whereas the GT 350 in the past was much more of a road car and you know, we'll do that. I get to take him out on the road, but you know, he really has very good road manners. I mean, a lot of people think it's going to have this giant engine in front, very unbalanced, snoring and whatever, but really. It's going to cross 6570 without making you feel like you're beat up at the end of the day, but still, when you step on it, it just has that cool old-school American muscle sound to get some beans in this parking lot. and so, when it's automatic, how old is this, three, this is a c6 three speed automatic, it will pull first gear up to about 55 to 60 miles per hour and then it will shift firmly into second and yes, it's a fun car, The funny thing to me is that it's very clear that the first generation Mustang, the engine bay was not designed for such a large engine, so look how this is absolutely shoehorned in here and good luck to the poor person who has a change. of the spark plugs and I'll give you a little hint about this last spark plug here, it almost requires you to have to remove the brake master cylinder just to change the spark plug, well, yes, double four cylinder, yes, yes, and no, it's It's a fun car, the

classic

Shelby is worth about a hundred and ten thousand dollars because it's a driver, but I didn't want to be responsible for taking to the

race

track and breaking Haggerty's classic car, it's too old and cool to risk it, but nonetheless, Haggerty was willing to take it to the race track and show us how fast it is in the fourth model, quite impressive for a car over fifty

years

old, 15.2 seconds with a trap speed of just over 91 miles.

Now, here we go for the second time. so reaction time doesn't matter because we just go yellow. I love it, so a couple of things I learned doing a second run is that it's pretty bulletproof and pretty easy to throw. Yes, this is a clue. Ford designed it to go to the track and you can do fast laps in it and it will do very well, but I think it is much more comfortable at least for a driver like me, here on the track, there you go, that was the most The fun I had today is that the last race was eleven and three, trying to get into the tens, but we learned something very important: the difference between the 1967 gt500 with 350 horsepower originally and this new one is approximately five seconds in the acceleration track and that's it. an eternity