Shelby Lonestar now in full splendour

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It doesn’t happen all too often that a car makes its debut, 50 year after it was conceived. But it was the case with the Shelby Lonestar, unveiled for the first time in the public during the Amelia Island concours d’elegance last week. We wrote about the car before, but now that all about it has been unveiled, we wanted to share it with you once again. In full splendour, that is, thanks to a variety of photographs and a video (above) found on the world wide web.

As known now, the Lonestar was made in secrecy as a replacement for the 427 Shelby Cobra in 1967/’68 and based on the Ford GT40 with Ford 289 cubic inch V8-power. However, it never reached production and the sole prototype was offered for sale in Autoweek magazine for $15,000 under "For sale – Sex on Wheels!". There were no takers at the time. A car never had a more fitting name.

It is a lot sleeker then what we expected it to be, and you cannot be blamed for mistaking it for a P3 or P4 Ferrari at (very) first. Or perhaps Ford's own GT40-successor: the GT70. Surprisingly, there’s also no roof, or a Targa-roof to be more precise. We do like it, though. How about yourself?

(Video: Car revs daily, pictures: autoweek.com, automobilemag.com, autoclassics.com)       

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