Shelby Model History

United States · founded 1962

Carroll Shelby's American performance marque — creator of the V8 Cobra and the GT350/GT500 Mustangs, from 1960s racing legend to today's Ford-partnered tuner.

Models

Cobra

Carroll Shelby's founding car — a lightweight British AC roadster fitted with a Ford V8, the 260/289 and big-block 427 Cobra.

Sports car · 1962–1967
Daytona Coupe

The aerodynamic closed-body Cobra — six built — that made Shelby the first American constructor to win an FIA world championship.

Racing sports car · 1964–1965
GT350

The original 1965 Shelby Mustang — a track-bred small-block fastback — revived decades later as the flat-plane-crank Voodoo GT350.

Muscle car · 1965–2020
GT500

The big-block flagship Shelby Mustang — from the 1967 428 GT500 and 'King of the Road' to the 760-hp supercharged Predator GT500.

Muscle car · 1967–2022
GT-H

The modern Hertz 'rent-a-racer' — a Shelby-tuned Mustang in black-and-gold, reviving the 1966 GT350H idea for the 40th and 50th anniversaries.

Muscle car · 2006–2016
Series 1

The only Shelby designed from the ground up — a late-1990s aluminum roadster powered, unusually, by an Oldsmobile Aurora V8.

Sports car · 1999–1999

Other makes