1968 Shelby Mustang GT350, GT500 and GT500KR. Greg Kolasa

      Every year of the Shelby Mustang is unique and can be thought of as a separate step in the car’s evolution. Because they were built some 2,200 miles from the marque’s birthplace (and, in fact, by an entirely new and different constructor), the 1968 models are often thought as being the turning point in the Shelby Mustang evolution.

      There is, of course, some degree of merit to that assessment, but actually, a more solid argument can be made that in 1967, the Shelby Mustang made its largest single evolutionary leap. The car emerged from the design process with a totally unique look that was the greatest stylistic departure from the Ford Mustang (and the Shelby Mustang of the year prior). Moreover, that design process took a completely different approach, one that would have been unthinkable just two years prior.