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CAPTURING A MOMENT IN TIME

ONCE-LOST SHELBY PROTOTYPES REBORN AS TIMEPIECES

Once lost, now found and restored to Shelbys, as excess sheet metal from
their original glory, a pair of historic both cars has been carefully built into
experimental Shelby Mustangs – the design of an extremely limited
“Green Hornet” and “Little Red” – Swiss-made timepiece collection.
took the collector car world by storm The company behind the concept is
in 2018. Many car fans were sure these the Denmark-based REC Watches,
cars had been destroyed decades ago standing for Recover, Recycle, Reclaim.
and lost forever; even more people “REC Watches has gone to
questioned they had ever existed. extraordinary means to find unique
But exist they did. The painstaking artifacts and put these into a brand-
restoration of the Green Hornet led new timepiece,” said Jackson. “They
Barrett-Jackson Chairman and CEO keep the patina and build the watch
Craig Jackson and his team to the to represent the vehicle. There wasn’t
discovery of the near-mythological much excess sheet metal to work with
Little Red in a Texas field. The … but there was enough to build
only Mustang notchback coupes these unique watches in very limited
ever produced to wear the Shelby numbers.”
nameplate now stand fully restored,
side by side, taking their rightful Just 318 Little Red and 282 Green
places in automotive history. Hornet timepieces will be made.

Now, discerning individuals can own “The Little Red and Green Hornet
a piece of these near-mythological watch project has been more than
a year in development, as we

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