I wonder whats under here...

A man hired to clean out a storage unit finds a Shelby GT350 hidden beneath the junk. Like most tv news this story is light on actual information. At least it makes for a nice daydream.

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I suspect that there is a lot more to this story.

Even by the early 80's, most of these cars had been tracked down by the Shelby American Registry. Unless there were some significant medical issues involved, anyone who had enough financial woes to lose their property would have unloaded this thing a few years ago. I suspect that the previous owner may have had some paperwork issues with this car. Let's see what happens when the VIN goes public.

More info:

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Rare-car-found-hidden-beneath-junk-in-Kan-garage-1327189.php

Good thing it fell into the lap of an attorney. Anybody else would probably have wound up in court tied up with lots of lawsuits.

So Hertz rented the car out to people who could take them racing for the weekend and bring it back? I bet Hertz didn't know that

Hertz knew about it, there was even a club for it.

I don't remember the exact numbers but there were VERY few red GT-350-H Mustangs built. IIRC most were black with gold, white with blue and blue with white... google is my friend:

http://mustangs.about.com/od/1966mustangmodelprofiles/a/1966-gt350h.htm

In all, only 1,001 of these fastbacks were built for Hertz in 1966. The makeup consisted of 999 units of the following colors: A majority in Raven Black with Gold (Bronze Powder) side and Le Mans racing stripes, 50 Candy Apple Red with side stripes, 50 Wimbledon White with side stripes (as well as several models with both side and Le Mans stripes), 50 Sapphire Blue models with side stripes, and 50 Ivy Green with side stripes. Two of the GT350H Mustangs were prototype models. Each of the cars was built in Los Angeles at the Shelby American Los Angeles airport facility.

One of 50.

pix or it didn't happen. i can't hit the video at work.

AngryCorvair wrote: pix or it didn't happen. i can't hit the video at work.

http://www.mustangevolution.com/mustang-news/1966-shelby-gt350-forgotten-26-years-later-exposed-under-trash/#

There' no "H" in the stripe, though the stripe may have been replaced at some point. Also it's hard to tell, but in the video it looks as if it may be a four speed. There were very few Hertz cars with manual transmissions.

But, hey, even if it's just a '66 C code Mustang fastback, it's still a pretty cool find.

Woody wrote: There' no "H" in the stripe, though the stripe may have been replaced at some point. Also it's hard to tell, but in the video it looks as if it may be a four speed. There were very few Hertz cars with manual transmissions. But, hey, even if it's just a '66 C code Mustang fastback, it's still a pretty cool find.

No "H", additional stripes on the hood (white cars got them but no reds did FWIW) No hood gauges... Not an H but likely a real C code.

I'll give them their $80k pre auction estimate right now.

I would be happy to find ANY car in a storage facility. Finding a '66 Mustang would make my pants tight. The possibility of it being a GT350-H would make my head asplode.