Ah, Barrett-Jackson?s Scottsdale auction, where historic American muscle comes to be revived and sold for too much money. Invariably, manufacturers get into the act, selling the first examples of cars they hope will be known as future classics. This year, Shelby American is showing up to the party with its reconstituted Terlingua Racing Team Mustang.

You might remember Shelby?s last stab at a Terlingua-themed car, featuring a boosted V-6 making up to 375 horsepower. But that was a decade ago, and stodgy old Cadillac is pushing 464 horses out of a V-6 now. Predictably, Shelby got radical, built on its Super Snake package, and is offering the Terlingua model with a wholly sensible, Hellcat-stomping ?750-plus? horsepower from a supercharged version of the Mustang GT?s Coyote 5.0.
For those not hip to the whole Terlingua thing: If you want a real sense of the place, drive out to Alpine, Texas. It’s the home of Sul Ross State University, friendly folks, and whole houses that have inventively grown out of trailers. Then take State Route 118 south until you?re nearly in Mexico. There?s not a whole lot to Terlingua. It?s a gift shop and a graveyard set up against the mountainous terrain of the Big Bend. But it?s near here that Carroll Shelby owned a ranch, and it?s here that he helped establish a renowned chili cook-off in 1967. Stop into the gift shop and buy a ?Ski Terlingua? coffee mug, featuring a skeleton bombing down a mountain. State Route 118, by the way, is a grea...