Out of an all-GT Ultimate 4, the 1965 Mustang Shelby GT350 emerged because the winner of Ford Motor Co.’s model of March Insanity.

The Shelby GT350 topped the 2020 Mustang GT500 within the championship spherical of the Ford Frenzy match after three weeks of on-line voting. The opposite semifinalists had been the 1965 GT40 MKI and the 2017 GT.

The no-stakes competitors began with 64 autos from all through Ford’s historical past. Ted Ryan, the corporate’s archives and heritage model supervisor, posted a number of movies explaining the choice course of and handicapping a number of the battles, and he was shocked by a number of the voting outcomes.

“Whereas I just like the Mustang Boss, there is no such thing as a manner it must be beating the unique Mustang 70%-30%,” Ryan tweeted. The Boss, a No. 4 seed within the “Rouge” area, ended up taking out the top-seeded 1964½ Mustang in what Ford known as the 1.6-liter spherical (as a substitute of the Candy 16).

Two No. 15 seeds, the 1955 Fairlane and 1984 Bronco II, impersonated Oral Roberts with first-round upsets over a pair of two seeds. And the 1966 Galaxie 500, a 12 seed, defeated the fifth-seeded F-150 SVT and fourth-seeded 1940 Lincoln Continental after the “Jay Leno’s Storage” account tweeted in help of it.

The one 2021 fashions within the bracket, the Mustang Mach-E and Bronco Sport, every misplaced within the second spherical.

The profitable Shelby GT350 was seeded second within the “Piquette” area — named for the unique Mannequin T plant in Detroit — behind the Mannequin T, which it eradicated 79 % to 21 % within the fourth spherical.