California guy gave a Porsche dealer $1,750 for a broken Mustang and 50 years later it's still roaring

Half a century after buying this banged-up and broken Ford Shelby Mustang for a $20 down payment, this California man is still driving his piece of junk… but it’s magnificent.

Nowadays, you don’t get much bang for your buck for anything worth $20. A Popeyes for two? Half a tank of gas? Even most board games are breaking that barrier.

But we can bet you’d rather have a Shelby Mustang on your drive than Chutes and Ladders gathering dust in a drawer.

This California man has done just that, turning his $20 down payment from 1975 into a tremendous vintage ride that looks better than 99 percent of modern cars.

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One-of-11 Ford Shelby Mustang gets an incredible 50-year makeover

Back on Halloween of 1975, ghosts and ghouls ran amok on the streets of America, but the spookiest trade of the night was no trick, as this man placed his deposit on the sweetest treat of his life.

The keys to this one-of-11 raven black Shelby Mustang 350 convertible swapped hands, with a $20 deposit placed and another $1,730 being wired three days later.

However, the car was defunct, hence why this iconic vehicle was priced so cheaply.

Bought from a Porsche dealership, the showroom-ready car was then lost to the history books.

That was until a recent listing proved that it was alive and well again.

The 1968 Shelby GT350 is now ‘fully restored’, and the owner’s claim of it being ‘an absolutely stunning car’ is completely valid.

Most of the work to restoration work will have been spent on the J-code 302 V8 engine, but a video of the car shows it firing up and driving as smoothly as it did off the factory floor.

Incredibly, the entire bodywork is the original from 1968 and is in impeccable condition, despite being 57 years old.

Now that’s what I call investment: 68

Now, the Mustang is being sold at $169,999, some 9,700 percent profit margin.

Granted, we don’t know how much money it needed to be restored, presumably quite a large sum and many hours of experienced engine-handling labor, but it’s a hefty sum either way.

The limited information on the listing doesn’t note why he’s selling the car either, but its mileage count of just 65,000 insinuates this served as the man’s daily driver for some time over the past 50 years.

Shelby Mustangs appear to be one of the best investments car gurus have ever made, reaping massive rewards all over America.

Now, with the GT350 reimagined in a modern form, the era of the Ford Shelby is back.

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