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    KING OF THE RESTOMODS

    Oct 27, 2021 5 minutes
    WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY BARRY KLUCZYK

    BREATHE EASY. Paul Choukourian didn’t carve up an original 1968 Shelby G.T. 500KR to build his supercharged, Coyote-powered restomod, but he sweated the details to make sure the car was as authentic-looking as possible.

    Paul is the former owner of a dealer-optioned, Paxton-supercharged ’68 G.T. 350, so he understands the reverence for original Shelbys — as well as the existential crisis that comes with cars with such intrinsic value: To drive or not to drive. And when we say “drive,” we mean drive, not just the occasional run to cars-and-coffee or the Mustang meet.

    “I wanted a real driver,” Paul says. “A car that I could jump in and drive around all day with the air conditioning on and not worry about it like a real Shelby.”

    And if that vintage car could show its taillamps to a modern Hellcat, all the better.

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