What if Carroll Hall Shelby continued his productive and astonishing collaboration with the Ford Motor Company well into the 1980s and '90s, and Lee Iacocca asked Old Shel' to envision, design, and build a Fox-bodied Shelby Mustang? The Foxy Shelby would need to have the quintessential Shelby design and performance that was the stunning success of the 1965-1970 Shelby Mustang GT350 and GT500 variants that tore up the racing tarmac and dealer showrooms of the latter 1960s and helped to vanish the contents of many a gear heads' savings accounts from the past to the ever present. Hmmm...

World famous custom car designer and builder Chip Foose postulates this interesting what if in a YouTube video, sponsored by Hagerty Classic Car Insurance. Stay tuned, motor mavens of the midway and gear heads of all generations! The 5.0 Shelby is on its way. We wish...

Some cars are engineered. A rare few are conjured. In 1967, when Ford widened the Mustang just enough to swallow its muscular 390/320-horsepower big-block, the move cracked open a door. Carroll Shelby, eternal hot-rod alchemist, kicked the slightly ajar door off its hinges. The GT500 arrived as the natural evolution of performance, its Police Interceptor 428 already massaged to 355 horsepower. The public devoured it, outselling the GT350 by nearly double. But beneath Shelby’s trademark Texas grin, another idea was forming - larger, louder, and impossibly ambitious.

And as in so many moments of automotive destiny, it took only a spark to ignite a legend.