WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE MUSTANG

You read it here first, ladies and gents! The world’s most expensive Mustang, ever, has just sold at Mecum’s Kissimmee auction for a headscratching figure of $2.2 million USD! How did a Mustang sell for such a ridiculously large figure? — you might be left wondering. Well, the car in question happens to be a 1967 Shelby GT500 Super Snake — a one-off prototype that was far too expensive for Ford to greenlight it to go in to production — roughly double the cost of a regular GT500 — and offered up 520hp back in ’67. To put that into perspective, the 2019 Shelby GT500 just revealed at the Detroit Auto Show is claimed to pump out “over 700 horsepower”, so some five decades later, the Super Snake could still hold its own. It made so much power courtesy of the 427ci Shelby chucked in the engine bay, replacing Ford’s own 428ci, and was built to be almost the same unit used in the 24 Hours of Le Mans-winning GT40 — the ‘bundle of snakes’ exhaust design ported over from the GT40 contributes to the model’s name. Carroll Shelby is reported to have himself driven this exact car up to 170mph in a top-speed run. The Super Snake was estimated to fetch $1.1–1.2 million at auction, likely based on it having previously sold for $1.3 million at an Indianapolis Mecum auction — meaning it has nearly doubled in value since. Looks like it will keep hold of that record until it goes up for sale again and breaks its own record.