[DeTomaso] '70 Muscle Car Mustangs

[JDeRyke at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/18/08 7:20:44 PM, rimov at charter.net writes:

> I have heard many say the 71-73 fox body mustangs rode and handled much 
> better than the earlier fox body style mustangs, looks with standing of 
> course... Did all the 71-73 come with Cleveland's ?
> 
Handling for what? In a current interview with Carroll Shelby in Hot Rod 
magazine, he mentions that even with Ford's money and Shelby's star-studded cast 
of So-Cal workers, the '67-up Mustangs were too big and heavy to rework into 
decent handling racers. Lower down the performance pecking order, in my limited 
auto-x experience (only in Nor-Cal, only for 10 years), the most successful 
autocrossers were '65 Mustangs. No one ran later versions more than once. And I 
could be wrong but it seems like most '70-73 Mustangs with a 351 got the 
common Windsor engine rather than the rarer Cleveland. FWIW- J DeRyke



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