Prudomme Edition SS - 2009

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I have run out of adjectives to describe what the folks at Shelby Automobiles are coming up with these days for this generations muscle car wars. When I heard about this new street/strip hand built 800 plus HP Shelby I couldn't drive fast enough to get down there and put a deposit on what will be the 5th Shelby Prudomme Edition SuperSnake built. I dropped my black/black 2009 GT 500 off at the Shelby plant the first week in May 2009.

It's an unforgetable experience to walk into the Shelby factory and start checking off performance options on a new hand built Shelby/Prudomme Edition Supersnake! 800 HP not enough? "No problem we will build yours with 850 HP" Need both strip and street wheels and tires? No problem. Now I know what Bill Cosby and Steve McQueen must have felt like back in the 1960s when they could walk in and have Carroll Shelby hand build a car for them! Racing legends Carroll Shelby and Don Prudhomme joined forces to build the ultimate street legal dragster. Shelby is the only man to ever win the 24 hours of Le Mans as a driver, team owner and manufacturer and was twice named “Sports Car Illustrated’s” Driver of the Year. Prudhomme’s successful racing career included winning the NHRA funny car championship four times and he was the first funny car driver to exceed 250 mph.

“Don Prudhomme is one fast son of a gun who knows how to burn up the quarter mile,” stated Carroll Shelby. “In 1968, he drove a Shelby Super Snake dragster in NHRA for me. Last year, we decided to build a car together for grassroots racers who want a Shelby for the drags. This is the concept for that program and it’s a very fast car.”

Shelby Automobiles announced its limited edition Prudhomme Edition Super Snake package for the GT500 Mustang at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, Calif., earlier this year

The Prudhomme Edition Super Snake is powered by a 5.4-liter, supercharged engine that produces 800 hp on race fuel or 750 hp on 93 octane pump gas. Only 100 total Prudhomme Super Snake post-title packages are being offered by Shelby Autos to current GT500 owners. The package features:

• A Kenne Belle supercharger and modified air intake sticking out of the hood in the tilt front end • Five-point impact safety harness and roll bar • Borla side exhaust system • A front and rear adjustable BMR racing suspension and drag tires • Lower side rockers“I’ve really enjoyed working with Carroll and the Shelby Autos team on this program,” added Prudhomme. “When I was a kid, we’d drive our cars to the drag strip, race them and drive back home. We designed this car to do the same thing, and do it very, very well.”

Our Shelby/Prudomme Edition Supersnake CSM No. 09DP0005 is not for sale.

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