5S151 - Broad Arrow Auction Nov 18-19, 2022

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Description:

1965 Shelby GT350
Lot PB22_0091 | West Palm Beach | Estimate: $425,000 - $500,000

The 151st out of 521 street GT350 produced in 1965
Documented 18,407 miles at time of cataloging
Radio delete, trunk-mounted battery, optional Shelby-branded Cragar GT alloy wheels
Restored by Orlando Mustang to exacting standards
Earned the "Gold Award" at the 2015 SAAC National Convention
Captured "Best in Class" at the 2015 Hilton Head Concours
Description
Chassis No. SFM 5S151

In August 1964 Lee Iacocca, Ford's General Manager, urged Carroll Shelby to turn the enormously popular Mustang into a true performance car. Project head Chuck Cantwell, fabricator/engineer Phil Remington, and designer Peter Brock took on the task, while racers Ken Miles and Bob Bondurant refined the suspension. The competition GT350R captured three-straight SCCA B-Production National Championships along with numerous other victories, and the 1965 GT350 for the street was only slightly more civilized than the racer. "It's a real honest-to-gawd hair-on-the-chest G-dash-T car," Carroll Shelby told Car Life magazine.

SFM 5S151 was finished in Wimbledon White with Guardsman Blue stripes by Shelby American, Inc. on 29 April 1965, and shipped to Riesmeyer Motor Company in Crestwood, Missouri on 13 May 1965. Being an early production car, it is equipped with the trunk-mounted battery. Furthermore it is a factory radio-delete car ordered with the optional Shelby-branded Cragar GT alloy wheels riding on Goodyear Blue Dot tires. Like all 1965 GT350 it features 289 cu-in V8, built to develop 306 horsepower, delivered through a Borg Warner T-10 four-speed aluminum transmission. A Mr. Utenage of St. Louis, Missouri purchased the Shelby on August 29, 1965. There were three more St. Louis area owners, where it remained until 2006 with about 15,000 miles on the odometer. It moved to Maryland, then Pennsylvania, before the next Arkansas-based owner traded two 1966 GT350s for the then 17,000-mile Shelby. The current owner purchased SFM 5S151 in 2009, then turned it over to Orlando Mustangs for a no-compromise restoration, the proof of which was the "Gold Award" at the 2015 Shelby American Automobile Club National Convention, capturing 914 out of a possible 955 points, with the deductions for just the smallest of details that have since been corrected. Further validation of its quality came with the Best in Class award at the 2015 Hilton Head Concours.

Subsequent Shelby Mustangs increasingly traded comfort and style for raw performance. This is a unique opportunity to own a low-mile example of the race-bred 1965 Shelby GT350, restored by marque experts Orlando Mustang and subsequently must be one of the best examples available today.