Shelby American has announced that it will sell a 2011 GT350, serial number 350, at No Reserve during the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 1-3.  

  “Because 2011 Mustang GT production will begin about the same time as the auction, we’re going to sell the rights to the serial number 350 car,” added Steve Davis, president of Barrett-Jackson. “The GT350 will be built in Las Vegas when the base car becomes available and include a host of important options. In addition, Carroll said that he will personally drive the car before it is delivered to the lucky bidder at the Shelby American factory. This will truly be a special, milestone collector car”

The Shelby team unveiled a supercharged concept version of the Mustang-based 2011 Shelby GT350 at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale in January to honor the 45th anniversary of the first GT350 and first Shelby big-block Cobra.  

The Shelby GT350 is a post-title program; a customer purchases a car from a local Ford dealer, which is turned into a GT350 by the Shelby American Team. A limited number will be built in the 2011 model year. A Ford Mustang GT can be dropped shipped by a Ford dealer to Shelby’s Las Vegas facility for conversion or a customer can arrange to have a properly specified car transported to the factory.  

SPEED will broadcast more than 22 hours of live, high-definition TV coverage of the auction.

Customers interested in a Shelby GT350 should contact Roger Sorel at 702/942-7325 or log onto www.gt350.shelbyamerican.com.