The Snake is Back!!

               

               Mustang, a car known around the globe for style, performance and muscle, and it has been that way for 50 years. How do you make a Mustang even better? You have Carroll Shelby turn it into a Super Snake.

                In 1967, Carroll Shelby took a Mustang and turned it into the original high-performance Super Snake. And now to celebrate its 50^th anniversary, Shelby is back, taking the 2017 and doing it again. This time an 11 second quarter-mile at a time. Following up the release of the Mustang GTE last year, Shelby and Ford Performance unveiled a new striped variant of the American muscle car at the Ford exhibit at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction the weekend of January 21. Based on Shelby’s performance claims, the Super Snake can outperform the Mustang Shelby GT350R in just about every way and remains both street and track legal.

                The Super Snake begins as the already amazing Mustang GT with the 5.0-liter V-8, which you can get in automatic or manual transmission. But it only gets better from there, Shelby adds a supercharger and fine tuning, kick the horsepower up to a cool 670 horsepower. Not enough horsepower? Pay a little extra for a Whipple and Keene Bell supercharger and now the engine will generate 750 horsepower.

                So just how good are the Super Snakes performance numbers? Well,  with an automatic transmission, normal gas-station fuel, and Michelin street tires, the Super Snake with the optional supercharger can do zero to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds, Shelby asserts, and hit 1.2 g on the skidpad. In our testing, the GT350R did zero to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds, ran the quarter-mile in 12.5 seconds, and pulled 1.10 g on the skidpad.

                So that’s awesome, Shelby made the Super Snake super-fast, what else did they do? Shelby upgraded a host of other features on the Mustang as well, the Super Snake has new dampers, anti-roll bars, springs, and bushings. It also has black or polished 20-inch forged aluminum wheels, six-piston Wilwood brake calipers in the front and four-piston calipers in the rear, upgrade cooling for the brakes and engine. And on the outside, the Super Snake has a new hood, front splitter, grilles, rocker panels, rear spoiler, tail panel, rear diffuser, and lower rear splitter. Shelby also added LED lights, and, most obviously, striping on the top and sides with Shelby Super Snake branding.

                Shelby will only be making 500 on the Super Snake, so if you want one, you better hurry. With the cost of the Mustang GT plus all the extra bells and whistles, the Super Snake rings up at just under $80,000. So make sure to order you Super Snake early, contact us now!