4est_4est_Gump
Run Forrest! RUN!
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Why, what big thighs you have...
Try outrunnin' this mule:
Okay, we'll do 100 meters back and forth over a 10 meter course.
Let's see the SOB beat me in the turns.
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There used to be a guy named George Montgomery who raced a 33 Willys A/Gas Supercharged coup. This Willys brings him to mind.
After two years of selling the Shelby G.T. 350 Mustang, Shelby American sought to broaden the appeal of its upgraded pony cars. When Ford announced a significantly revised Mustang for 1967, Carroll Shelby saw his opening, dropping Ford’s 428-cu.in. Police Interceptor V-8 between the fenders of a significantly restyled Mustang fastback. The result was the Shelby G.T. 500, a kinder, gentler supercar that marks its 50th anniversary in 2017.
Shelby’s first modified Mustang, the G.T. 350, hit the streets in 1965. Beloved by racers and masochists, it was broadly panned by those needing a car for more than just track duty. Critics complained the suspension was far too stiff, the Detroit Locker differential was too noisy (terrifyingly so, some would say, as it sounded like the axle was shearing every time the diff unlocked) and the side-exit exhausts were deafening. The clutch was too stiff for day-to-day driving, and perhaps worst of all, the G.T. 350 looked too much like the Mustang on which it was based.
The G.T. 350 was softened for 1966 to make it more livable on the street, but that still did nothing to set the car apart, appearance-wise, from production Mustangs. That changed with the introduction of the 1967 Mustang, which retained the original’s wheelbase but grew in overall length, width, and weight. Enlisting the help of Ford stylist Charlie McHose, Shelby American tasked him with designing a fresh look for the Shelby G.T. 350 and its new stablemate, the G.T. 500.
Up front, the 1967 Shelbys received a new fascia, new grille and new, longer hood. Perhaps the most notable change was the relocation of the high beams to the center of the grille, where they resembled driving lamps (but, as Shelby would soon learn, conflicted with certain state laws relating to the minimum distance between headlamps, necessitating a change for 1968 later production). The longer hood (and longer fascia to accommodate this) was no accident; Shelby himself believed that extending the car’s front end made it look faster, even when parked.
A museum director says a 1913 Rolls-Royce once owned by the daughter of the 19th century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was vandalized ahead of an appearance in Maine, but all the pieces stolen from the car were recovered within hours.
Kevin Bedford, of the Owls Head Transportation Museum, says the car, valued at $1 million, was stored inside a trailer overnight Friday in Portland when someone broke in and took several items, including a radiator cap with the "Spirit of Ecstasy" emblem.
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Police say a 37-year-old man arrested early Saturday during a house break-in was found with the hood ornament.