Ford_News
06-30-2011, 09:15 AM
Filed under: Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/category/ford/), Rumormill (http://www.autoblog.com/category/rumormill/)
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Most available choices at your local car rental agency are tame appliances built to shuttle you from Meeting A to Hotel B. Back in the day, however, things were a bit different thanks to Shelby (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/shelby) and Hertz (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/hertz). In 1966, the rental car company and Carroll Shelby partnered up to offer a custom Ford Mustang. Shelby built 1,000 units, Hertz rented them out and a horde of happy customers used them to rip up their local dragstrips and main streets. In 2007, the duo joined again joined forces (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/04/01/ford-unveils-shelby-gt-h-convertible-001-sells-at-barrett-jack/) to supply some muscle into the rental fleet. Now comes word that Shelby is looking to celebrate its 50th anniversary with an all-new rent-a-racer.
According to Automotive News, Shelby plans to team up with Hertz to bring a new generation of the Mustang GT-H into the world. Starting with a 412-horsepower Ford Mustang GT (http://www.autoblog.com/model/mustang), Shelby will reportedly take the two-door and juice it up a notch before applying gold stripes to either a black car or a white one. The details of the mooted 2012 Shelby GT-H program have yet to finalized, but keep an eye out for distinctive Mustangs sitting at Hertz lots in the not-to-distant future.Shelby to bring back rent-a-racer program? (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/30/shelby-to-bring-back-rent-a-racer-program/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Most available choices at your local car rental agency are tame appliances built to shuttle you from Meeting A to Hotel B. Back in the day, however, things were a bit different thanks to Shelby (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/shelby) and Hertz (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/hertz). In 1966, the rental car company and Carroll Shelby partnered up to offer a custom Ford Mustang. Shelby built 1,000 units, Hertz rented them out and a horde of happy customers used them to rip up their local dragstrips and main streets. In 2007, the duo joined again joined forces (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/04/01/ford-unveils-shelby-gt-h-convertible-001-sells-at-barrett-jack/) to supply some muscle into the rental fleet. Now comes word that Shelby is looking to celebrate its 50th anniversary with an all-new rent-a-racer.
According to Automotive News, Shelby plans to team up with Hertz to bring a new generation of the Mustang GT-H into the world. Starting with a 412-horsepower Ford Mustang GT (http://www.autoblog.com/model/mustang), Shelby will reportedly take the two-door and juice it up a notch before applying gold stripes to either a black car or a white one. The details of the mooted 2012 Shelby GT-H program have yet to finalized, but keep an eye out for distinctive Mustangs sitting at Hertz lots in the not-to-distant future.Shelby to bring back rent-a-racer program? (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/30/shelby-to-bring-back-rent-a-racer-program/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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