This past weekend, Ford auctioned off an all-new Shelby GT350R Mustang, VIN #001, to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

It’s amazing that a car like this can be released to the general public. The Shelby GT350R is the driver’s car, much like the SVT Cobra R was when it was released. There is no radio, no A/C, no rear seats — anything that didn’t make the car faster has been jettisoned.

According to Shelby American, the company will offer just 50 Signature Edition Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snakes to honor the last Mustang GT500. But what a send-off it shall be.

How can you really beat this idea? The flat-plane crank, 500-plus horsepower, proper-wheel drive (rear-wheel drive if you can’t figure that out), and of course, the shape of the 2015 Ford Mustang.

Billed as Ford’s best-handling Mustang ever, the GT350 not only revives the nameplate of Shelby’s iconic racing car, but also it revives the spirit and track-focused nature that made the original GT350 an absolute monster on the racetrack.

It hurts to say this, but we would trade the majority of your healthy human existences for the 2007 Shelby GT500 that Will Smith drives around an abandoned New York City in Francis Lawrence’s “I Am Legend”.

There have been numerous spy photos and videos of the upcoming Mustang GT350 swirling around the interwebs, so we have a rough idea of the monster’s eventual production looks.