Well all of this was done while Iococca was head of Chrysler and seemingly Shelby's efforts were an attempt by him to get back into the good graces at Ford?
What did it in for me was when the Shelby Team had one of these cigar boxes running around one of the race tracks with the turbo dialed up faster then they could get an R model to go.
I mean, to me, this was like a crime against Nature. A crime against the Universe.
In addition it seemed like the base vehicle wasn't ugly and repulsive enough? Shelby had to enhance that.
Talking about a counter culture personality? Wow. This must be what Devil worship is like?
Iococca was doing the "the Deuce" song and dance again about having a real Italian sportscar. He bought about a dozen Detomaso Panteras and sent a couple out to Shelby in California. There they pulled out the Cleveland and installed a 318 turbocharged in two of them.
Fortunately those are the only two, This was when Lamborghini was in financial trouble and Chrysler bought them out. The 91 Diablos have Chrysler VIN tags on them. Fortunately Iococca forgot about the 318 engine in those and left the Lamborghini v12's in.
The only way I'd have one of these Shelby Dodges in my driveway would be if I was having a "let's set it on fire and burn it to the ground" party?
Even with the Viper, it's an ok car especially if you consider this ass backwards design philosophy over at Chrysler that they have to redefine ugly as desirable, but with all of their engineering prowess, they needed a V10 to equal the performance of a Ford 427?
Really? Something definitely wrong with them over there?
Get out of here with that Dodge crap. That's all it is.