This 1965 Shelby GT350 R is one of the most successful Shelby race cars, ever. 

In the late ’60s, Charlie Kemp pushed this Pete Hood-prepped fastback to 17 straight wins in SCCA, en route to B-Production Division Championships in ’68, ’69, and ’70.

The win streak started at Riverside in 1968 when the car set a new top speed record for GT350 Rs, but the car’s real crowning accomplishment would come at Daytona in 1969. The Shelby had absolutely no business slugging it out with the big bore 427-cubic inch ZL1 Corvette’s in the faster A-Production class, but the little 289 did.

According to the legend, Kemp and Hood had run the car with a conservative 7,400 rpm red line, but in order to keep in front of the Corvette Kemp wired his foot to the firewall, running the GT350 down Daytona’s 3,000-foot backstretch at 8,400 rpm. Scampering away from the Corvette in a straight line, this 350 R hit an absurd 184 mph top end, the fastest a 289 equipped Shelby–including Cobras–had ever traveled. 

Allegedly, Carroll Shelby loved it, calling it the fastest one he’d ever seen. Before heading off to race Can-Am cars, Charlie would start 54 races with this GT350, finishing 42 and winning 32 of them.

The car will come with an extensive aluminum bound race history file with videos, invoices, photos, articles and SAAC authentication all included. Back in 2014, it sold for $984,500 at RM Sotheby’s 2014 Amelia Island auction, but it will once again cross the auction block at Barrett Jackson’s Scottsdale Auction in January 2018.

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