Get your bids ready

[Dave W]

Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 found under 40 years of dust

[Granny Gremlin]

oh my.

[drbassman]

Man o' man, if I had 100k laying around the house!

[gearHed289]

Awesome time capsule.

[Denis]

Articles about this car first appeared on the internet a few weeks ago.

The original articles had some brief comments from collectors (the kind of assholes I can't stand) trying to talk the car down by saying the date codes on the tires indicated they weren't original to the car. Turns out that the deceased owner had a close friend who remembered that at least two of the tires were replaced under warranty in late '69 or '70. Take that, naysayers!

One sentence stood out: "The Mustang was originally purchased for just $5,245 in 1969." $5245 was a lot of money in 1969 and that's one reason why there weren't many of these cars. Of course by then the Shelby Mustangs were closer to regular street cars than they were in 1965 and even '66 when they were pretty much race cars.