Thread: Shelby American working with Ford on the GT-40?
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Old 10-19-2003, 12:31 AM
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Remember that the ORIGINAL design was called "Ford GT". The "GT 40" moniker came later so they could put some distance between the original Lola design (Eric Broadley) and the 'new'
car after the humiliations of the first outing when the GT was rushed to LeMans without proper development. It would be odd to call the new car GT40 when it's almost 45" tall, and it would dilute the 'halo' value, IMHO.
As for the new Shelby/Ford Mustang.....there are rumors floating about the Ford group that the V10 one off they dubbed Boss351 has some very interesting potential........I believe they tested the car in a recent Motor Trend, as did AutoWeek. IF FoMoCo has the cajones to put out something even close to the Boss 351 concept under the GT350 moniker it would be one heck of a car, maybe the best Mustang EVER, and just in time for the 40th anniversary of the GT350. It would be nice for Ford to get ONE of the Mustang anniversaries right! Looks like it's gonna be hard to decide where to spend the car cash pretty soon...........
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