This is a 1968 Shelby GT500KR Convertible that might be the closest one in the world to what the KR would have looked like ...

The Mustang, introduced in 1964, was a big hit among car enthusiasts. But it's the ultra-rare 1968 Shelby ... 428 engine, aka Cobra Jet, on the GT500. It was subsequently called the Cobra GT500 KR.

1968 was a great year for the Shelby Mustang ... non-KR version of the 1968 GT500. It offered 400 hp and 460 lb-ft (405 PS, 624 Nm) – but it wasn’t cheap, at $247. The 428 Cobra Jet ...

The car, dubbed the KR ... for its Cobra Jet advertising campaign. See All 7 Photos On April 1, the 428 Cobra Jet was introduced to the world as a new 335hp performance option for the Mustang ...

Conservatively rated at 335 horsepower, the 428-cubic-inch Cobra Jet engine was, at the time, the biggest displacement production powerplant ever fitted to a Mustang. See All 12 Photos By the late ...

Just in time for Shelby fans comes the next big event, and it's in Plainfield, Indiana this weekend: the auction of an unrestored 1968 Shelby Cobra Mustang GT500-KR ... 428 cubic-inch Cobra Jet ...

Even though later G.T. 500 KRs and all '69 and '70 G.T. 500s were upgraded with the more potent 428 Cobra Jet ... All 24 Photos Dimensionally identical to the Shelby 428, the 390 Mustang exhaust ...

There it was designated EXP500 and fitted with a 428-cubic-inch Cobra Jet engine ... the end of the project—another Shelby prototype, the "Little Red" Mustang notchback, was only recently ...

Shelby American will celebrate its 60th birthday in 2022, but it’s the Ford Mustang that’s going to be receiving gifts. The firm announced a limited-edition model called GT500KR that boasts a ...

Those who could usually opted for the Shelby Mustang ... Motor Company put the KR-8 engine into production. It was installed in the ‘68 Mustang as the 428 Cobra Jet. In a full-circle experience ...

In 1967, the New York auto show played host to the launch of the original GT500KR, a version of the Shelby Mustang powered by a 428-cubic-inch Cobra Jet V-8 rated ... the 2008 KR outdoes its ...

From the Archive: 1967 Mustang Shelby GT500 ... year ownership. The KR—for “King of the Road”—was a development of the ’68 GT500, with the so-called Cobra Jet 428-cubic-inch engine ...