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[What's Burning?]

I'm saddened by this news today.

[What's Burning?]

Damn... one of the greatest names in the history of GT sports cars dies and not a single person replies to the thread!

[geetface9]

I'm not worthy to!! May the car gods bless his soul.

[bud]

RIP. a true legend.

[What's Burning?]

Only man ever to win Le Mans as a driver, as an owner and as a constructor.

[madbrad]

Weird thing is because of when I was born, I came into driving age when All manner of K body base FWD cars were being Shelbyized. That makes them the ones that evoke my fondest memories of things Shelby, despite being the least sporting of all of them.

[What's Burning?]

Weird thing is because of when I was born, I came into driving age when All manner of K body base FWD cars were being Shelbyized. That makes them the ones that evoke my fondest memories of things Shelby, despite being the least sporting of all of them.

it's okay, we've all done things in our past we're deeply ashamed of.

[madbrad]

But I would still take the Lancer.

The Shadow CSX was extremely quick. They briefly offered the intercooled turbo then pulled it, apparently because the lawyers feared too many fatalities in them. At the time, a salesman at a Chrysler dealer told me he had a paid order for an intercooled one and he had the enviable task of breaking it to the customer that he was not going to get it. Then it was just the non intercooled one. They also had variable vanes on the turbos to combat lag. It was cutting edge but they only had it for a few years then went back to fixed vanes. When Chrysler stopped marketing Shelby cars they also drifted away from turbocharging altogether, then there was a period when there were very few turbo cars on the market at all in North America.

[geetface9]

My dad used to have an '85 mustang...thing was sick!

[madbrad]

Why do you tell us that here? Carroll Shelby wasn't doing anything with Ford then.

[geetface9]

Looked exactly like the red one in the picture above. Just reminded me of it, i didn't know shelby wasn't part of the ford game any more by then

[madbrad]

That's not a Mustang. It's an 84 Chrysler Daytona Shelby Z. At least in Canada the Daytona was a Chrysler, maybe in the US it was a Dodge. That post was talking about the 80s Shebyized K body based FWD.