I didn't get many runs recorded since the mount on our Sony HandyCam broke but my dad's little point and shoot Canon Powershot did a great job of capturing the action.
I must have seen this video and watched it over 30-40 times over the years since 2008! It pops up on my RU-vid feed here and there and I always watch it! One of my all time favorites
I use to have a 66 GT back in 73 , I was living on the end of a dead end street, one night my Dad came to the gas station where i was working , he said dont go home tonight, there is a Radar trap in our driveway !!!
this is awesome footage. my car ran in 1981 and came in 2nd in class (4:43.95). i never new what this climb was all about, and this is the first video I have seen of it, but I am thinking of taking her back and doing it again after seeing this video. spectacular. many thanks
I was a beautiful day when i graduated high school and my uncle gave me my present: a 1966 sapphire blue gt 350. It had been in his garage for years, and he decided to pass it on to me. with gas at 3:80 a gallon and the hi-po engines MPG at a whopping 13 mpg.... It does not get taken out enough. fuck it, im taking her out tonight. Thanks for the video!!!
That's surprisingly poor fuel economy if it is original equipment. My '65 AC Cobra (same engine as GT350) got 21 mpg driving from MI to MD. (about 950 mi) On my GT350H, I replaced the original Ford carb with a Holley and immediately improved both mpg and performance. If you still have the car you may have already figured out this stuff yourself.
I have a 66 GT350 my dad bought new when he worked for Ford in his twenties. I wouldnt dare think of driving it like that up some mountain on desert highway ......Not with my Dad knowing I did anyway. Im 50 and Dads in his 70s and still acts like I am 16 and just got the Shelby for my birthday yesterday. Ive owned the car for 21 years and havent so much as put a ding on it anywhere. But if you were to ask him I am sure he would say Ive ruined hs " Baby " . Love you Pop, No you cat have it back !
I’ve driven that road hundreds of times since I was 16, I used to race my 73 super beetle 🪲 up and down it, I really enjoy driving my 2002 BMW m3 6speed manual up it, I have never officially entered the hill climb, but I’ve driven countless different vehicles up it, I’m inching closer to finishing my 65 mustang project build and I’m eager to stretch her legs on it, though the m3 is gonna be a pretty tough contender to best, they have some really exotic cars that enter that event, what was your time if you don’t mind sharing?
That Side Pipe Exhaust Really Makes it Sound Like More than 306 h.p.Sounds More Like a Stroked 306 or 331ci.LolThink I believe Reading Somewhere that the R Racing Ones Were Stroked to 331ci.
this is so better than some porshe,audi or mercedes,nothing like american muscle.and this "shelby" mustang is signed.for those trailer queen shelby's,daily drivers,and colletables.hope those shelby's are/where signed.cause now its too late. shelby/mustang,hurst/olds,yenko/camaro.
I’ve lost control on that road and spun out putting just a hair too much into it, it really tests the limits of your cars handling and what you don’t see in the video is the shear 1000ft + drop offs that aren’t something you will be walking away from even if you stick the landing, also it appears to be the front passengers vehicle since he asked him if the steering wheel was connected so I’m sure he was using a fair amount of caution, it’s not a very forgiving road when you make a mistake and sometimes a few hundred rpms mean the difference between making a turn and breaking the rear tires loose, which could be a mortal mistake so I think the driver did exceptionally well feathering the throttle in and out of the turns.
Just to think. Carroll Shelby didn't want anything to do with working on a Mustang. Lee iacocca said "You have to, Henry Ford II wants this a he pays the bills" Shelby American develop the 1965 GT 350 with a budget of $1500 dollars givin to them by Ford. 1965 money went a longer way than today.
'Golf gloves'? You're obviously a kid. Back in the day of real sports cars, gentlemen wore proper string-back driving gloves (look closely at about 0:09). Leather on the palm side, crocheted on the back (hence the name string-back). They often wore ascot ties as well, but unfortunately now there is a certain, ahem, affectation associated with wearing one. Find the Bill Cosby album "200 M.P.H." and listen to side 2 where he talks about his custom twin-supercharged Cobra, and his 'driving outfit'. Hilarious!
