Win a 42-Mile 2021 Shelby GT500 Carbon Fiber Track Pack in Twister Orange + $20,000

What you're looking at

A 2021 Shelby GT500 with 42 miles on it. Not 42,000 — forty-two. This is a car that came off a transporter, got parked, and was left alone, and the Shelby American Collection is handing it over with $20,000 attached to soften the tax bill.

Under the hood is the 5.2-liter Predator: cross-plane crank, not the flat-plane Voodoo from the GT350, with a 2.65-liter Eaton supercharger sitting in the valley for 760 horsepower. Behind it is the TREMEC seven-speed dual-clutch — the first time Ford built a GT500 with no manual option at all, a decision that irritated purists right up until the first time they used launch control.

The part that matters most to a collector is the Carbon Fiber Track Package. That was an $18,500 tick on the order sheet, and it separates a fast Mustang from a serious one: 20-inch exposed carbon fiber wheels, a GT4-style adjustable rear wing, a carbon fiber instrument panel, Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, and no rear seat. Stack on the Technology Package with the B&O audio, the painted black roof, and Twister Orange paint, and this is about as loud as the last of the S550 GT500s ever got from the factory.

Why it matters

The 2020-2022 GT500 was the end of a line, and the market has sorted it accordingly. Ordinary examples have drifted down toward the mid-$60,000s, while low-mileage Carbon Fiber Track Pack cars have stubbornly held near six figures. That gap is the whole story: the package, the color, and above all the odometer are what this car is worth.

Which sets up the classic dilemma for whoever wins it. A 42-mile GT500 is not a driver, it's a preserved artifact — and the instant you enjoy it the way it was engineered to be enjoyed, you start spending the premium that makes it special. Some winners will park it under a cover. The more interesting ones won't.

Be realistic about what a car that has sat needs before it's used in anger. Fluids and fuel go stale on a schedule that has nothing to do with mileage, and Cup 2s in particular age out and take a set regardless of how much tread is left — a set of tires is cheap insurance on 760 horsepower through the rear wheels. The dual-clutch is a stout unit, but service history on a static car is a different conversation than service history on a driven one.

The fine print worth knowing

Entry is structured as a donation to a 501(c)(3) museum in Boulder, Colorado, run through the TapKat sweepstakes platform. Reported donation tiers start at $25 for 24 entries and scale upward, with progressively better entry counts at higher levels plus a bonus-entry promo code the museum advertises on its own site. Entries close August 30th, 2026 at 11:59 pm MDT, and the winner is drawn September 5th, 2026 at 3:00 pm MDT.

A few things here are genuinely reassuring compared to the average car sweepstakes: the sponsor is a real, named nonprofit museum with a physical address, the drawing is administered on a third-party platform rather than self-run, and the museum publishes its winners by name and hometown going back to 2018, with drawings held in front of crowds at the building. The official rules hosted on the entry platform are where the no-purchase entry route and the eligibility terms live, and those are the documents to read before you donate.

Two caveats on the numbers. The museum doesn't publish an approximate retail value or a cap on entries sold, so the odds aren't calculable in advance. And the $20,000 for taxes is helpful but not a solution — a six-figure prize is taxed as ordinary income, and depending on your bracket and your state the real bill can land well north of that figure. Budget accordingly before you start dreaming in orange.