The guys over at Oak-land lincoln in Oakville where I bought my GT are building one of their stock black GT's into a HERTZ lookalike. So far the stripes are on, with the rest of the gear being fabricated Looks sweet! I'll post pics tonight.

 

eh?

 

quote: eh?


Like the 1966 Shelby Hertz GT-350H.

Hertz bought a few of the Shelby's and put a H behind the GT-350 to show a difference. They are fairly rare cars.

They were/are pretty sweet looking cars, look them up on the net.

http://fred99gt.stangnet.com/photo5.html


http://www.fast-autos.net/shelby/gt350h3.html

 

Are you sure the H is for Hertz? Don`t they rent cars? I never heard of that,but that doesn`t mean much

 

cool. cant wait for pics

 

Yes the H is for Hertz. It was for their frequent drivers back in the 60's...they had an option where those people could rent Shelby GT-350H's. The major difference was that these were all black and had gold stripes, where the regular shelby's only came blue/white stripes, red/white stripes, and white/blue stripes.

If I remember that all right.

I saw a GT-350H the other day in a parking lot (at a brake shop I think)... I was like ... don't know if it was original, but who cares?

 

They weren't all Black w/Gold stripes. Look under Brad's Timeline 1966

 

One of the interesting items about the 350-H's. . .

Hertz killed the idea after some of them were returned altered - where roll bars were installed and then removed for a weekend of racing

 

Cool...thanks for the correction. Had forgotten about the other colors.

 

They stole my idea!!

This is what my next Mustang will look like

 

thats pretty close to what Oak-land is doing to the car! Only problem is some local millionaire took the project car out tonight, and nobodys seen it since.Can you say sold? Oh well start again. I'll check tomorrow to see if its still going

 

Yep. I was around at that time and saw a couple of them on road courses. What's that expression? Oh yeah. Drive it like you don't own it!

 

Rumour has it people swapped out the shelby spec engines for regular 289's from time to time as well

 

I read in one of the Shelby history books, most of them didn't originally come with the LeMans stripes.
It's just that over the years, people have added them in their restorations.
I know they were a dealer installed oprion in '67/'68.

This is my favorite Shelby. It didn't have the LeMans stripes. It's the very first S/C Shelby Mustang. And the only GT 350S.



Jason

 

Only the black '66 Hertz rentals had LeMans stripes. The other colors did not.

 

Steve, you're right about that - a few were returned with plain-jane 289's under the hood. Holes drilled in the floorpans for bolt-in roll bars, etc.

No wonder Hertz said "enough!" after one year.

 

Hertz rented Shelbys in 1968 also.

 

Yep! And, if memory serves, a **couple** of '69 Hertz GT350s made it out the door, too.

 

do you have pics of 68 or 69 GT350H's?