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The carbon fiber Cobra costs a cool $1.2 million and will be limited to 10 units

This Is a Carbon-Bodied, 810-HP 1967 Shelby GT500 Chris Perkins © Drew Phillips/Classic Recreations The Shelby GT500CR from Classic Recreations is a lightweight take on a pony-car classic. With a starting price of $265,000, this Shelby GT500CR from Texas firm Classic Recreations will likely cost more than a'67 original, but it has one thing the original doesn't—carbon fiber. The bodywork is made entirely of carbon fiber, and for good measure, you can get it with an 810-hp supercharged Coyote V-8. Don't expect this to be slow. Classic Recreations builds GT350s and GT500s u...

Saving weight is very hard to do. Yet, Classic Recreations has managed to save a whole wack of it thanks to a full carbon fiber body. The company is the only one licensed to make Shelby continuation cars and it partnered with SpeedKore for its carbon-fiber know-how. Together, they’ve made a Shelby GT500 CR that weighs 600 lbs less than steel-bodied cars. In order to make it, the company first scanned a real Classic Recreations 1967 GT500CR and designed a carbon fiber body in CAD. Once molded, the carbon body panels were autoclave-cured. That means that they can be exposed (they’ll also pa...

autoevolution 5 Feb 2021, 14:49 UTC · by We first heard about Classic Recreations’ endeavor to bring to life an exact copy of the Shelby GT500 Mustang with a carbon fiber body less than a year ago. Fast forward to the early days of February 2021, and the specialist shop has already developed the first production unit of the 810-hp, 600-pound (272-kg) lighter Shelby GT500CR “ Carbon Edition.” 8 photos By the way, Classic Recreations is an officially licensed replica builder of the famous Shelby GT500, so the looks of a pony car that traveled back in time to the late 1960s, taking ...