Ford Mustang

April 25, 2006

2006 Ford Mustang GT-H Hertz

Filed under: Mustang Talk

Mustang Performance for Rent!

Forty years ago, Carroll Shelby and The Hertz Corporation came up with an ingenious plan to help get a batch of high-performance, special-edition Shelby Mustangs into the hands of rental customers who also happened to be car enthusiasts. Ford supplied the new Mustangs with V-8 engines and mostly automatic transmissions, Shelby added extra performance and style, and Hertz gave the public access to the kind of unique driving experience that one would normally only find on a racetrack.

2006 Ford Mustang GT-H Hertz

Today, the story of the Shelby/Hertz “Rent-A-Racer” is legendary and surviving Shelby GT350H Mustangs are among the most sought-after collector cars in the world. To connect the magical past of the original Shelby GT350H with the modern capabilities of the new Ford Mustang, Shelby, Ford and Hertz have again teamed up, and – together with the Ford Racing Performance Group – have given the 2006 Ford Shelby GT-H a very classic, muscular look as well as some true performance credentials.

Read more about the 2006 Mustang GT-H Hertz Racer.

1 Comment »

The URI to TrackBack this entry is: http://mustang.blogsome.com/2006/04/25/2006-ford-mustang-gt-h-hertz/trackback/

  1. I was one of the people that worked on that car for the last 100 or 200 cars. Its a very fun and well handling car.

    Comment by Cody — February 17, 2007 @ 6:11 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>























Get free blog up and running in minutes with Blogsome | Theme designs available here