1966 Shelby GT 350

This car took part in the HSCC Historic Road Sports race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.

It's the 1966 Shelby 350 GT of Kevin Kivlochan and has the 289 cu in Ford Small Block V8 engine, shown as 4,727cc in the programme of the event. A total of 1,373 fastbacks were produced in 1966 and in order to help Shelby sales, Ford, the major shareholder of Hertz, persuaded the rental car giant to purchase 1,000 of these cars. The deal with the Hertz Corporation to offer these cars for rental was that after their rental-car lives were finished they would be returned to Ford, refurbished, and sold to the public as 'GT350H' models. Most Hertz cars were black with gold LeMans stripes and sill stripes, although a few were white with blue stripes. You can see on the sill of Kevin Kivlochan's car just behind the front wheel that it has the GT350H of the ex-Hertz hire cars.