CARROLL SHELBY

Let’s fast forward a few years to the first time Nerren was exposed to drifting. While serving our nation in the United States Navy, he was stationed in Yokosuka, Japan. There he met Toshihiko Kubota, who painted the cars for the movie Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift and was involved with the local drift scene. Jonathan was fascinated by the types of cars from the Fast and Furious movie that Toshi was repairing in his shop. He eventually started shadowing Toshi to learn the ins and outs of the drift scene. Today, Jonathan Nerren has earned his Formula Drift Pro 1 license and will be competing in the 2020 Formula Drift Season with his Shelby SuperSnake competition Mustang. 
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Building The Carroll Shelby Tribute Mustang

Shelby is arguably one of the most iconic names in the automotive and motorsports world. Nerren had the idea of paying homage to the late, great Carroll Shelby on a ride home from the West Coast with his crew chief, Nic Snyder. They needed a second car for the SEMA Show in Las Vegas back in 2018. Jonathan and his team had recently finished his Shelby Super Snake competition Mustang at Throttle Junkie Tuning, which was planned to go to SEMA.
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Vince LaViolette, Vice President of Shelby American, and the rest of the Shelby team had big plans for the Super Snake competition Mustang. Shelby American wanted Nerren to debut his 2018 Shelby Super Snake competition Mustang at the Shelby American facility in Las Vegas to give ride-a-longs during their annual SEMA party. With just a month before the show, Nerren and his team needed to get to work on the Shelby Tribute Mustang to make it to SEMA. 

Jonathan tells us that the Ingot Silver, 2017 Mustang GT was intentionally purchased to be his daily driver. That didn’t last long! With the SEMA crunch in full swing, Justin Tambasco had a two-week timeline in which to finish the full SuperSnake wide body conversion on the Mustang.

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Jonathan had this idea of creating a “weathered” race livery on the Shelby Tribute Mustang. “We wanted the new model Shelby Mustang to look like Carroll had been racing the car, kicking Ferrari’s ass of course,” says Nerren. “Then he parked it in a field to sit for the last 50 years.”  Jonathan reached out to a close friend of his, Jason Brozak who owns Just the Dipz, to put their idea in motion. Jason has been applying Plasti-Dip to his personal Mustang and several client’s vehicles for years. 
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