Orange 1970 Shelby Mustang interior with gauges and rear view

found in France. Right now, all we know is a friend called Donnie with the find. A quick check of the VIN revealed the February 1970 shipment to Belgium. Donnie owned the convertible for a couple of years. Rick found out about the car during an informal car-talk phone call with Little 5 known about the Shelbys activities In Europe, tail offer tantalizing clues. his friend. Donnies original intention was to restore the vehicle. He just never got around to doing it, Rick said. Rick has owned many Shelby and Boss Mustangs. What really got him excited about this find was the color: Competition Red. This is the same as Calypso Coral in the Boss Mustang. I love Calypso Coral, Rick said. Shelby calls it Competition Red. i just thought a Calypso Coral Shelby convertible would be outstanding. i knew they made just a handful of them." Of course, the four-speed transmission didn't hurt, either. And the assortment of options and accessories was The front chin spoiler was shared with the Boss 302. Even the foglights were intact and original. The top speed on this 70 Shelby Mustang is 240 kilometers per hour. A kilometer is about six-tenths of a mile, so 240 kph is about 144 mph. though the trailer hitch and pig- another plus. Rick researched the rarity factor right away. First, Shelby turned out 788 Mustangs, in both G.T. 350 and GT 500 versions, in both fastback and convertible body styles. Exactly 57 were convertibles in the GT. 350 series. Ofthese 57, just 12 had four-speeds. Of these dozen four-speed G.T. 350 convertibles, just two were Competition Red. I knew they made just a handful ofthem. i gured this Shelby is one of those cars where the sky is the limit." Rick flew from Columbus to Ft. Lauderdale to find what he discovered to be a car in real good poor condition." Restorable vintage Shelbys, complete and unrestored but in real good poor condition," are getting extremely difcult to locate these days. Striking a deal for this one put Rick in a jovial mood. Im going to patent that phrase," he said. The Ohioan found a few tiny rust holes in the floorpans and a few more in the rear quarter-panels. Theyll be no big problem to fix. Apparently, somebody took good care of this convertible in Europe. Rick has no way of knowing when the muscle Shelby left Belgium for France. In Florida, Rick found the GT 350 still retained all the correct Shelby stuff: the correct shift knob, foglights, seatbelts and so forth." The option list was long for this 351-powered Shelby. They consisted of a black power top, four-speed, 3.50:1 Traction-Lok, Visibility Group, Goodyear white-letter tires, disc brakes, power steering, Tilt-Away steering wheel, Interior Dcor Group Deluxe, AM/eight-track. tinted glass, deluxe seatbelts/warning lights, heavyvduty suspen- sion and tachometer/trip odometer. Rick said. The car has to come apart. The car deserves and will get a full restoration."M[/? JULY 2009 MUSCLE CAR REVIEW 17