1968 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500KR - vintage road test

[freespace2dotcom]

Makes you wonder where that car is today, and if it even exists.

[thecruisingcars]

Ahh! The good ole days when brakes where an option LOL!

[thecruisingcars]

..the slightest jerk will lock it up tight!....Jerks shouldn't drive this car lol!

[james29472]

HEY! LOOK MA!! It's real louvers!!!

[Drbrilliant92]

3:50 for happy time

[TheNorthernSoulKing]

Love how everyone picks at things that does not matter like the rims. Who cares Id love to have a Shelby I would not sell it for the world

[2253glen]

Good vid. I love the arguments, cursing and namecalling when the experts comment and fight about what brand is better. What a bunch of morons.

[conrynsilverleaf65]

Too slow. a Hurst Olds was faster all around, and out handled it. Out broke it too. Shelby needs to get out of the performance market. He lost his touch.

[nestromo83]

@conrynsilverleaf65

Shelby never built the 500. He was only involved in development of the 350. I'm no blue oval fan, but FoMoCo was the only one that had anything to do with this car.

[KRKATANAKID]

Good video but at the beginning the rims are way wrong look it up I'm right!

[RedWolf3487]

I would get one, but I'm poor. :(

[jammer96]

5:23

[sofa67]

Ha! Old cars like this crate would have an epic ail in an accident against ANY modern car. Look for the 59 Chevy Impala vs 09 Chevy Impala crash test on youtube. And just about any European car from 1968 would leave this US built hulk for dead in the twisties-be in a Jag E Type or heck, even a VW Bug had a higher skidpad rating back then.

[CamaroAmx]

@sofa67 i've seen that video. i love the rust falling off the 59. apparently they picked one that looked great but was rusted to hell underneath.

[moronsgetout]

@sofa67 you're an idiot. name any current model European car and i will name and american car that outperforms it for less money. prick.

[DeAdiSSu3]

@sofa67 Check out C&T's test on the 1969 Plymouth GTX 440. That car is big, weighs like 3,700 pounds, but it handles VERY well. You see, General Motors and Ford were behind mopar (Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth) in those days in terms of suspensions, chassis, ignitions, valvetrains, the list goes on...mopar was out in front until the mid 70's. Also, some guy rear-ended my Plymouth in his "modern" car and you know what happened? His car became an accordion, my car didn't even have a dent. :)

[MoskvaMorten]

@sofa67 Kiddo, I have the E-type you're talking about sitting right outside. It has been in the family since it was brand new. There's always been a pony or muscle-car somewhere in the garage beside it, mostly Mopars. The E-type NEVER EVER have stood a chance in performance or reliability compared to the american cars we have owned. Don't get me wrong, I love it for what it is - but you probably should do as I always have done - get some FACTS, try things yourself, before you start preaching.

[sofa67]

Ha! A Mini Cooper S or VW GTI will run with this clunker easily, get triple the gas mileage, actually corner, and not fall to pieces. American CRAP

[IIAIRBORNEII89]

@sofa67 Now why would you compare a 21st century car vs one made in 1968? You do realize that back in the old days this car Was King of The Road, The standards were lower back then, as you can see they do 0-40 tests. And fall to pieces? honestly? If one of your european VW or what ever were to get into an accident with this car it would be the european one that falls to pieces. Not to mention this car doesnt sound like some golf cart on steroids eithier, kinda like your shitty european cars fag

[428CJ70]

@sofa67

You are comparing 2011 Euro technology to American 1967? Even 45 years old, this car would resell for 3 to 5 times the resell price of either of those cars. Its called a "classic". Instead, how about comparing those two cars to the 2011 Shelby GT500? They'd get killed.

[yorrickwi]

old top gear us XD

nah ist actually car and track

[Dwnshifter]

Don't get me wrong I abosultley love this test(it's a great big window into the past) but, if you were to call the GT500KR a "great handling car" now, it would instantly land your ass in prison perjury.

I love how they look at every little detail even question the the location of the extractor louvers location which is right over the plug wires.

For it's the KR was close to perfection: it was 100% pure badassery and yet somehow the car had a safe dose(for 68 detriot anyways) of refinement.

[kolbpilot]

Another car I used to drool over when I was young.

[mowat440]

1968 dodge charger with the 426ci HEMI and for me FUCK ford DODGE IS KING of THE ROAD sorry ford lovers but that me

[harddrivin1le]

You're right.

The 2001 V6 Mustang wasn't as fast as this car, but the 2011 is.

They're running 13.7 second quarter miles at 102+ MPH.

And a new 2011 5.0 liter GT would roast both of them.

[iloveduchess]

@harddrivin1le Obviously a new 5.0 would tear both of them apart. But I doubt the new v6 is running a high-13 1/4 mile

[harddrivin1le]

LOL

The new 2011 V6 Mustang is faster than this Shelby AND it gets 31 MPG highway.

[iloveduchess]

@harddrivin1le Here's a guy who apparently went to all the vintage road test videos just to leave negative comments.

and I can promise you the 2001 V6 is NOT faster than this. neither is your little VW GTI. Front-wheel drive is for people who don't know what they're doing.

[slayer19966]

@harddrivin1le Tell that to the speed limiter on that V6. When your car shuts down on you in the middle of the road and this one leaves your ass in the dust, then we talk.

[zombiesarebad67]

@harddrivin1le true, but...

1. all these old road tests were done on bias-ply tires. If you've ever driven anything with them, you know what a huge handicap that is.

2. very few old cars are stock nowadays. They have more aftermarket support than any other type of car and thus have the most tuning potential.

p.s. would you rather have a new v6 one, though?

[bad65stang]

@zombiesarebad67 if i had one of the 68 KR's I could sell it (though i would never sell it if i got my hands on one lol) i could buy a ton of new v6s lol these things are fetching 300k

[Rustyrunaway]

holy shit thats a nice car

[CarVideoSpot]

Very nice video, thanks for sharing.

[halflife103]

yaaay... back when car reviews were exactly that; car reviews.

[enyemvagy]

America now is how such a dream car? in Hungary or

[enyemvagy]

nah ,én ilyenkor szoktam becsinálni!!!!

ez egy álom autó!!!

[redtorino]

"Hey....it's happy time!" Bud was soooo cool!!

[Enigmalast]

man this guy makes even the seat belts sound like fun.

[DONDIVA1969]

Very few cars could deal with a 428CJ powered Mustang. More than a few Street Hemis got smoked.

[Cash2112]

Ha, the right brake light is already burnt out @ 4:51.

[Corkoth55]

at 3:22 anyone else see the fly walking across the part in front of the center console?

[killjoy455]

@Corkoth55 dude how did you see that? i would have never noticed it!

[Corkoth55]

@killjoy455 haha good eye i suppose xD nowadays they'd be all over this and have to re shoot the commercial!

[thegreatcarraway]

"The reverse spin"

They're hiding screwing around and having fun by making it a test.

[barmtrail]

I own a 68 GT 390 hi-po mustang, and they are great cars, but very little room inside, and the stock brakes and tires are pathetic. I guess in the day they just didnt know any better. Ford made alot of mistakes with the mustangs back in the day. My car was very undercarbed, heads were too small, brakes etc...But i paid 200 bucks for it in 1984 and it's now worth 50,000. But dodge and chevy were just head and shoulders above ford in the muscle car dept. Fords looked good however.

[FlintIronstag2008]

@barmtrail I've gotta give you the "very little room inside" thing. Every time I climb into a first-gen Mustang, I wonder if they were being marketed to leprechauns back in the sixties.

But even a Mopar guy like me is more than willing to admit that they sure did look good.

[barmtrail]

@FlintIronstag2008 You will love this story...My best friends father goes lookin for a car one saturday in Pomona, ca. where we lived. He promises his wife it will be a fuel efficent car. This was 1980. We are all sitting in the front yard waiting for the, "new" car to come down the street. Well he bought a car alright, but it was a 69 orange with black hood super bee!! 440 six pack-4 speed hurst-4/88 gears 3 miles to the gallon, and once owned by Dick Landy! The wife was pissed!!

[barmtrail]

@FlintIronstag2008 Bill drove that car for about 10 years until it just got worn out. My friend still has the original reg. and all the dick landy stickers that were in the glove box. Do you know of any dick landy super bee that was in So California at the time mentioned? Do you know if this was one of his personal cars? His father just sold the car to the junk yard which most people did back her in the day. Thats how i got my 68 GTstang for 200 bucks.

[FlintIronstag2008]

@barmtrail I don't know the history of any of his personal cars, but that is a cool story.

I just caught the tail end (mid-80's of the time when a dumb kid (me) could go and buy a car that would be a highlight at Barris-Jackson now. Sigh.

I sold my '67 GTX back to the guy I bought it from. He had left the Corps, and called me a couple of years later asking if I still had it. I did, and I had just crashed my racebike hard and needed money. Sigh.

Just before the musclecar market went nuts.

[FlintIronstag2008]

@barmtrail (Stupid 500 character limit)

When I sold my GTX, I just thought I would pick up another musclecar as soon as I saved a bit. Even a young, dumb Lcpl could afford what is now an expensive trailer queen.

I even passed on a 1971 Hemi Charger for $10k once. Very clean, and only lightly modified. I could have (barely) afforded it, but would have needed to borrow some money to pull the trigger, so I waited. Aargh.

[MrChannelPromo]

No videos of the 1967 Shelby GT500KR :(

[tuffguy428]

@MrChannelPromo No such thing as a '67 GT500KR, the KR was a mid year introduction of the 428 Cobra Jet motor.

[jensenbell]

Mercury Cougar Interior?! ;-)

[idontlikecops1]

0-60 in 6.2 seconds!! danm thats fast nowadays

[jammer96]

Badass muscle car. 8mpg on a good day. Still looks fun.

[TheWraithMan666]

this car was thirsty...all the time

[r9alexito]

I don´t care about nothing, this is the best Muscle Car ever; of course, the King of Road !

[crayman31]

Strange about the entire side brake light being out, it has 3 or so globes in it!

[herbienbrian]

I think because of the fact that these go for $100,000 + on barrett jackson, its definetly the king of the road.

[wiebehoukes]

Hahaha, "bucket seats"; they're as flat as Keira Knightley's stomach! Great car, nevertheless..

[Mr400fe]

Why would a brand new car have a brake light out?

[landyachtfan79]

@Mr400fe It's a Ford, what do you expect?!!

[CamaroAmx]

@Mr400fe i've seen alot of brand new cars today that have a headlight out. some things don't change.

[Husong812]

Fantastic, thanks for posting!

[Samsgarden]

Did he say hotchkis suspension?

Can't be the same mob can it?

[Mr400fe]

@Samsgarden yes

[StoneCold75]

it lost a tail light bulb in the brake test!

[limpkit2011]

love the real air scoops, not like the ones cars have now

[F14CRAZY]

Not under 14 sec in the 1/4...think if they actually had tires back then that were worth a damn

[proxima777]

@Aliendear lead the way!!

[ozzfest641]

Anyone know if this particular Shelby is still around?

[lycinka]

I love KR

[laford1986]

Every time I see one of these videos. It makes me sick when they treat these cars the way they do, (I know it is a review). I can not understand the braking test--they ALWAYS lock them up, stupid.

[mustangcharger]

They could usually get shorter times locking up the rears because the fronts would still work better that way. Just read a vintage test where they mentioned that if they didn't lock the brakes it took longer to stop.

[charlesvan13]

I had a '69 Mustang with disk brakes in front.  The disk brakes were big and effective, but the proportioning between the front and rear was always bad.

You could disconnect the rear and not really notice.

[wwoorrdd]

What, a car? Being DRIVEN?! WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT.

[xfistsclenchedx]

@laford1986 That's because they didn't have ABS and when people panic before a potential accident, they tend to just slam the brakes like in the test.

[volkscom]

Hey its happy time!

[BrentAudi]

Awesome!