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Somewhere between the Mustang GT that Ford will happily sell you and the Shelby GT500 that Ford no longer builds sits a car most buyers never see on a dealer lot. This 2022 Ford Mustang Shelby Super Snake 60th Anniversary — 700 miles, six-speed manual, more than 825 horsepower — is live on Cars & Bids through Tuesday, August 18, and the high bid stood at $76,000 against a hidden reserve as of this writing. Photos courtesy of Cars & Bids.
Shelby's 60th, Not Ford's
The badge trips people up. The 60th Anniversary designation belongs to Shelby American, which Carroll Shelby founded in 1962, not to the Mustang, which hit its own 60th in 2024. Shelby marked the milestone by turning donor S550 Mustang GTs into anniversary-spec Super Snakes, and this one wears Iconic Silver Metallic over Azure Blue stripes with a black interior. The Super Snake name has been earning outsized attention for decades; the 1967 GT500 prototype that started it all is still the most expensive Mustang ever sold at $2.2 million.
450 Horsepower In, 825 Out
Ford ships the 2022 Mustang GT with 450 horsepower and 410 lb-ft from the naturally aspirated 5.0-liter Coyote V8. Shelby's package rewrites the top of that number. According to the Shelby window sticker shown in the auction gallery, this car received the Shelby Supercharger Package, high-performance fuel injectors, a performance intake system, the Shelby Performance Program tune, and a Shelby-tuned Borla variable exhaust. The seller puts output above 825 horsepower, and confirmed as much in the comments when a bidder asked whether the 450-hp figure listed in the specs was the real story.
The hardware underneath got the same treatment: Shelby Performance Track Handling suspension, Shelby-spec Brembo brakes, a one-piece driveshaft, and 20-inch forged aluminum wheels. Aluminum fenders, a rear spoiler, and a rear diffuser handle the exterior, while the cabin picks up custom two-tone leather and an auxiliary gauge cluster on the dash top, alongside factory equipment including heated and cooled front seats, a 12-speaker B&O audio system, and adaptive cruise control.
The Six-Speed Is The Real Story
Most cars making this kind of power arrive with a torque converter or a dual-clutch. This one uses the MT-82 D4 six-speed manual, which the seller confirmed in the auction comments. That combination has become genuinely scarce: Shelby only recently put a stick back at the top of its own lineup with the 850-horsepower Super Snake R. A supercharged Super Snake with three pedals and fewer than 1,000 miles is a narrow slice of the market, and narrow slices tend to cut both ways at auction.
What The Valuation Data Says
Because the Super Snake is a post-title conversion rather than a Ford-built trim, it does not get its own line in the price guide. The bookends do. Hagerty's Valuation Tools currently place a 2022 Mustang GT coupe in #3 good condition at $38,300, up 3.2 percent over the past year, while a 2022 Shelby GT500 in the same condition sits at $110,000 after climbing 34.1 percent. The Super Snake lives in the gap between them, and recent results show exactly where.
On August 10, a 3,000-mile 2022 Super Snake coupe in Rapid Red Metallic, also a six-speed, sold for $108,070 on Hagerty Marketplace. We tracked that car as it climbed toward six figures. A day later, a 3,000-mile 2022 GT500 brought $93,975 on Bring a Trailer. The market is not uniformly generous, though: a 674-mile 2022 Super Snake in Dark Matter Gray Metallic was bid to $81,500 on Bring a Trailer in October 2025 and still failed to meet its reserve.
That spread, roughly $81,500 to $108,070 for low-mileage 2022 Super Snakes, is the context for a $76,000 high bid with four days still on the clock.
Condition, History, And What Comes With It
The seller reportedly bought the car in March 2026 and has added roughly 200 miles since. The Carfax report shows no accidents or mileage discrepancies, and service performed at 458 miles covered a battery, wipers, a cabin air filter, and an oil change. The sale includes two keys, the owner's manual, the Shelby window sticker, and a car cover. The car carries a clean Texas title, sits in Dickinson, Texas, and is offered by a private-party seller. Bidding closes Tuesday, August 18 at 3:57 p.m. EDT.
The Modern Muscle Math
One commenter who already owns a Shelby-built GT350 laid the dilemma out plainly: bid on this, or put the money toward a Dark Horse build instead. Ford's answer to that question keeps getting more expensive, with 2026 Mustang Dark Horse SC pricing pushing the factory car into new territory. Shelby's own answer is steeper still, at $175,885 for a 2026 Super Snake making up to 830 horsepower.
Measured against those numbers, a 700-mile anniversary car with essentially the same supercharger philosophy, a manual gearbox, and a documented Shelby build sheet starts to look less like a modified Mustang and more like a shortcut. Whether the reserve agrees is the only question left to answer.
