Of all the Ford Mustangs to roll off the assembly line since 1964, Carroll Shelby’s GT500 ranks among the rarest and most coveted. Rarer still is the “King of a Road,” a high-octane variant that took ...

When it comes to classic cars, nothing's more exciting than seeing a rare muscle car come out of long-term storage. They're usually dusty and rusty, but that doesn't bother me one bit. It's part of ...

Mecum's Indy 2025 auction ends on May 17, and in these final days, a few outstanding muscle cars are going under the hammer. This 1968 Shelby GT500 was among the first high-profile rigs to change ...

The year 1968 represented a high point for Shelby American. Under the leadership of Carroll Shelby, in six years the company had risen from practically nothing to one of the world's premier ...

The 1968 GT500 KR is equipped with a Cobra Jet V8 engine Courtesy of Sotheby's RM Sotheby's With the 1968 Shelby Cobra in its final stages of design in spring 1968, Shelby gave his new creation the ...

It'll take a lot more than two hours of pushing broom to bring home this eight (cylinder) by three (speed) King of the Road. This is a 1968 Shelby GT500KR Convertible that might be the closest one in ...

The KR initials said it all. Back in 1968, Ford’s Shelby GT500 KR was the undisputed “King of the Road.” With its 7.0-liter big-block Cobra Jet V-8 cranking out close to 400 hp, it was the fastest, ...

Bring A Trailer just listed the ultimate project. It's a '68 Eleanor body on a 2012 GT500. What more could you ask for?

In the late ’60s the budding relationship between Ford and Carroll Shelby reached an interesting point. After having developed the Ford-powered Shelby Cobra and the Shelby Mustang GT350, as well as ...

And when we say “new,” we mean exactly that. This is not some concours-quality restoration based on an original 55-year-old rust-bucket Mustang. Revology’s interpretation of the Shelby GT500 KR is ...