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Victoria Scott

Shelby's 'New' $500,000 Coupe Is Actually 25 Years Old

Remember the Shelby Series 1? Released in 1997, it was a strange catfish-faced looking attempt at a supercar that came directly from Shelby American, promising Cobra-like performance with modern-era tech. Instead, it delivered buyers with an Oldsmobile-Aurora-powered parts-bin GM car that suffered from serious quality problems. Just 249 were made, so you're forgiven if you forgot about it. The Series 2, introduced in 2018, promised to fix all of those woes, and now — 25 years after the introduction of the Series 1 — orders are open for a batch of ten Series 2 coupes, built under license by Wingard Motorsports.

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