Shelby has a new nose gap! We’ve adjusted the nose fit and welded the mounts so it cant move. Now, the body lines look better than ever. Check out the video below for more info! This car is for sale, call for more info!
Shelby (AN5L 33967) is a one of a kind special Bugeye built in 1960. We first found this car about 15 years ago in Florida, where a hot rod restorer had some fun grinding off the beading and removing the park lights and custom building a Cobra-like rear license plate recess in the back of the car. This all made the car very smooth and sleek, a great look! He also added the roll bar. Check out the walk-around video below where we cover some of these custom touches, and more!
When we first found Shelby, it still needed more mechanical work, but it had a beautiful paint job that you still see today. The car was built at that time with a 1275 engine and four speed transmission, as well as front disc brakes.
Since then, we have upgraded various parts of the car for three different owners. For the first owner, we installed custom white gauges. These are original Smiths gauges re-done with white faces- a stunning and quite unique. We’ve never seen another with these faces. We were lucky to have had them screen printed this way. That owner also had us recover the seats with new leather blue covers with matching white piping. We also added a Ford Five speed transmission.
Subsequent owners had additional mods done. Shelby got a supercharger in November of 2015. (The odometer is not working currently but we estimate only about 1000 miles have been added since the supercharger upgrade). At the time the supercharger was installed, we also put in an upgraded (stronger) clutch kit to handle the extra power, as well as an upgraded roller throwout bearing and aluminum radiator with a new water pump. We put a new fuel tank in too at that time. In March of 2022, we installed a new wiring harness and changed the rear brake wheel cylinders and battery. In July of 2023, we added adjustable control arms in front, tapered front wheel bearings, a new master cylinder, and new radius arms.
The result is an impressively modified trick Bugeye, certain to impress. Performance is great as shown below in the driving video!
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