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Ford has built three Shelby GT500 Mustangs for the SEMA show. One that is built for both the road, the track, one for the drag strip, and one for the road course. The 2007 Shelby GT500 Professional Road Racer is Ford Racing’s 5.0 Liter Cammer engine powers this race version of the Shelby GT500. It is just one of many numbers that this Shelby GT500 uses to determine the difference between the avid racer and the coinsure.

When they named this Shelby a Professional Road Racer, they did it fora reason, as it is no casual observer. This is a vehicle that lives to race. In fact, it was prupose built for that very reason. A study in performance, it honors the innovation of Carroll Shelby in the best way it knows how: By stepping onto the track to win.

The 2007 Shelby GT500 Road and Track: No matter how hard we may try, some of us will never grow accustomed to a 9-5 workweek. Perhaps it’s because deep inside, we yearn to break free and leave the cubicle behind. Sound familiar?

Then take a long, hard look at this Road and Track version of the 2007 Shelby GT500.  From Monday morning to the closing bell of Friday afternoon, it’s a daily driver, as accustomed running to the grocery store as it is back and forth to and from the office. But on weekends, it’s demeanor does a 180, as it claims the title of weekend warrior and leave the 9-5 behind.

The 2007 Shelby GT500, Paul’s High Performance Draggin’ Snake was built to bolt down the 1,320 feet of molten asphalt, the PHP Dragin Snake is a killer at the quarter mile. A modification of the 2007 Shelby GT500, it’s design intent harkens back some 40 years ago, to a time when Carroll Shelby and the team at Shelby Automotive build eight drag cars to comete on the old, straight line quarter mile battlefield.

Those cars were modified in consideration with of the NHRA rule book with sharp attention paid to better straight line performance and to doing what Carroll Shelby does best: Winning.

Today the team at Paul’s High Performance pays homage to Carroll Shelby and his team at Shelby American with PHP Dragin’ Snake. It is made for pure performance, and built to break performance records at that very same stretch of quarter mile.