The first Grabber Painted Mustangs were the 1969 Shelby GT350 and GT500 with Grabber Blue, Grabber Orange, Grabber Green, and Grabber Yellow. It wasn't until the next year, in 1970, that the standard Mustang models used the same four Grabber colors. In 1971, Mustang replaced Grabber Orange with Grabber Lime; in 1972, dropped all but Grabber Blue; and then stopped the early Mustang year's Grabber tradition with a Light Grabber Blue in 1974, while skipping 1973. In 2007, Grabber Orange was back by popular demand. There were 18 offerings of Grabber Paint in 9 of the 47 production years of the Mustang. Follow this link to see photos of all Grabber painted Mustangs on this site.

Grabber Blue 1968 Shelby Mustang	Grabber Orange 1969 Shelby Mustang
Grabber Green 1969 Shelby Mustang	Grabber Yellow 1969 Shelby Mustang

In 1969, Shelby stopped modifying Mustangs and sold the remaining cars in work in 1970. How do you tell a 1969 Shelby Mustang from a carry over 1970 Shelby Mustang? Besides the first digit in the VIN, the hood of all 1970 Shelby Mustangs had black stripes.

1970 was the first year of the Grabber Paints on production Mustangs. Three selections were Grabber Blue, Grabber Orange, and Grabber Green which were very popular on the Mach 1, Boss 302 and Boss 429 special sports models. Grabber Yellow was also available in 1970 but only on the remaining Shelby Mustang's carried over from 1969 production. Competition Yellow was available in 1970 as a standard Mustang color and was the same paint as Shelby Grabber Yellow, so in 1971 it was renamed Grabber Yellow due to the popularity of the Grabber colors.

Grabber Blue 1970 Mustang	Grabber Orange 1970 Mustang
Grabber Green 1970 Mustang

In 1971, a new Grabber color was introduced: Grabber Lime which joined the renamed 1970 Corporate Yellow as Grabber Yellow and Grabber Green and Grabber Blue. After 1971, the Grabber colors only came back periodically with only one color offering each special year. Grabber Orange is the offering today.

Grabber Lime 1971 Mustang

Grabber Yellow 1971 Mustang

2007 saw the return of one of the grabber colors: Grabber Orange. Unfortunantly for Yellow Mustang fans, Grabber Orange replaced yellow as a standard exterior Mustang color. The popularity of Grabber Orange has allowed other Grabber colors to come back.

Grabber Orange 2007+ Mustang

Grabber Blue will come back as a standard color in 2010.

Grabber Blue 2010 Mustang

Below is a list of all years and shades of Grabber Paint Mustangs. There were 18 offerings of Grabber Paint in 9 of the 47 production years of the Mustang. Click on the text below any photo to see more cars of the year and color shown. Is your Grabber Mustang in this list? If not, then submit them to us for posting. Follow this link to see photos of all Grabber painted Mustangs on this site.

To see other colors go to the color photo gallery index page.

Jump to year: 1969 1970 1971 1972 1974 2007 2008 2009 2010

1969	Grabber Blue Grabber Orange Grabber Green Bright Yellow (Grabber Yellow)
1970	Grabber Blue Grabber Orange Grabber Green Bright Yellow (Grabber Yellow)
1971	Grabber Yellow Grabber Lime Grabber Blue Grabber Green
1972	Grabber Blue
1974	Light Grabber Blue
2007	Grabber Orange
2008	Grabber Orange
2009	Grabber Orange
2010	Grabber Blue

To see other colors go to the color photo gallery index page.