Shelby GT500 Burning Up Wallets
A member of our forums contacted us yesterday to inform us their local Ford Dealership has a GT500 convertible in stock, and we wouldn’t believe the price. As we reported earlier, dealers were expected to mark up Ford’s most powerful Mustang ever… but just how much? How about $20,000 over MSRP! That’s right, Cook County Ford in south Georgia has a “bottom line price” of $68,590 for a 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 Convertible.
It doesn’t stop there. A quick check on eBay show current bids exceeding $60k with buy it now’s above $90k. Lone Star Ford in Houston, TX want’s $91,967 for their GT500 - and it’s a coupe. On their sales page, Lone Star suggests they want to become the nation’s #1 eDealer in volume sales, claiming they have the staff to do it. A “nuclear physicist”, “baptist preacher”, and “computer genius” head up their internet department. Personally, I think they need a “rocket scientist” to figure out that consumers remember price gouging, and it’s too hot in Texas to sell snowmobiles.
Chip Foose has done it again (does this man ever sleep?), this time offering a hood for the 
Recent unveilings of the Camaro and Challenger have inspired Ford to think of new, innovative ways to keep the Mustang fresh. Ford calls this new way of thinking “Bold Moves”, we call it… well we haven’t really thought of another name for it - but it’s got every Mustang enthusiast excited to see what Ford’s going to do next.
Is Ford gearing up for a new heart transplant for the popular V6 Mustang? Recently Ford begun production of it’s new high tech V6 powerplant the Duratec 3.5, code named “Cyclone“.
With the release of