Ford has dropped the mother of all vocal videos of the new Shelby GT350R, and we’re just about ready to jump out of our skins. Take a listen.

Being auctioned off next month by RM, this 1965 Mustang GT350 R has a storied racing past. It won its division title in 1966, raced at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1967, and won its class at the 12 Hours of Sebring the same year.

While the number sounds ridiculously low, it actually coincides with the original amount of GT350Rs that Carroll Shelby originally built for Ford.

These are our first official, up-close and personal looks at the cockpit and the exterior of the new Ford Mustang GT350.

We caught up with Kerry Baldori, Chief Functional Engineer of Global Performance Vehicles at Ford, who helped lead the team that engineered the Shelby GT350 lineup.

According to the upcoming Chicago Auto Show website, the Ford GT350 Mustang comes up as one of the tags under the “Convertibles” section of the “Vehicles on Display.” But we’ve got our doubts.

Ford’s Chief Mustang Engineer, the man behind the new GT350R, slammed down the gauntlet on Stuttgart’s finest, stating that the new GT350R is better than the new Porsche 911 GT3.