Shelby Dodges: More Turbo Emblems!

Turbo Omni! Turbo Daytona! Turbo Lancer! Turbo Charger! Turbo everything! The Man In The Cowboy Hat loved him some turbocharged front-wheel-drive Chryslers back in the 80s. Say what you will about cheesy 80s turboness- and the soundtrack to this ad is more painfully 80s than your set of Iran-Contra Trading Cards- the Omni GLHS has our Stamp-o-Approval. – Murilee Martin

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1:30 PM on Tue Jul 3 2007
By Murilee Martin
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jpoRS at 04:16 PM on 07/03/07
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I own one of the '87s. It was actually a Shelby, not a badge engineered one like these. Road and Track did a comparison back in the day, and the CSX won.
fiat22turbo at 06:10 PM on 07/03/07
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Lest we also forget the 1989 Top Speed test where the 1989 Shelby CSX-VNT pulled 156mph. Not bad for a 175hp SOHC turbocharged and intercooled 4-cylinder.

Here's are a few more interesting articles:

[www.front-runners.net]
Maymar at 08:45 PM on 07/03/07
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We need another mainstream manufacturer to turbo damn well near everything they make (hell, that'd justify Pontiac's existence).
fiat22turbo at 09:52 PM on 07/03/07
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*cough*Subaru*cough*
danio3834 at 10:15 PM on 07/03/07
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Connectedness Index: 175
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All these cars were pretty good performance for their day. Most under rated probably the Shelby Lancer
Turboner at 05:31 AM on 07/04/07
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@danio3834: Once they got them some intercoolers, that is. Too bad they didn't make a Shelby New Yorker, my mom went through too many piston rings with the "hot" turbo setup.
brandegee at 10:19 AM on 07/05/07
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They probably should've turbo'd everything. I still remember the C&D test of the Sundance America model. They said it would just do the ton, but with enough high-speed thrum to knock out your eardrums.

My vote is for a Plymouth Scamp retrofitted with the full CSX treatment