The Generation Game: Ford Mustang

[05XR8]

You’ve got the very cool SCCA Saleen Mustangs in Foxbody and SN95 form.

The famous IMSA GTO Mustang.

Championship winning FR500 Mustangs. Just at the beginning of the GT4 era.

First GT4 Mustang to win on debut, in GT4 Australia.

 

[Tornado]

What're the Mustang's credentials on the track?

If you give Ford $350,000 they will give you a car that's slightly slower around a track than a Corvette that costs 2/3rd as much.

 

[MatskiMonk]

What're the Mustang's credentials on the track? I know it raced in the BTCC around the early 70s, possibly even the 60s, when nobody cared how big your car's engine was.

Just a general curiosity.

I recall Marc VDS running them in GT3 around 2010, and them not being very good.

 

[Tornado]

I know it raced in the BTCC around the early 70s, possibly even the 60s, when nobody cared how big your car's engine was.

But to be serious nothing much beyond Trans Am until the mid 1980s when Saleen started racing them successfully in SCCA World Challenge in whatever class was below the one the C4s/Esprits/300ZXs happened to be running in; then in the late 1990s as those three were being shuffled out but the C5s and Vipers and 996s hadn't been shuffled in Saleens were very good in the top class against the NSXs. The Saleen Allen Speedlabs cars weren't able to make the jump to the next "tier" of international competition very well when they were competing against full fat factory teams, but they didn't embarrass themselves.


After that Saleen started focusing his development efforts on getting the S7 into production and into FIA GT and ALMS competition so usage of the Mustangs in that sort of competition fell off a cliff.

 

[NotThePrez]

Foxbodies also raced in the German Production Car Championship, the precursor to the DTM, in the 80s. Heavily modified, 500+ Horsepower Mustangs also raced in the DTM proper in the early 90s.

From what I gather (and the video above), the cars weren't majorly competitive, but they were massive crowd-pleasers all the same.

 

[Chris30]

Foxbodies also raced in the German Production Car Championship, the precursor to the DTM, in the 80s. Heavily modified, 500+ Horsepower Mustangs also raced in the DTM proper in the early 90s.


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From what I gather (and the video above), the cars weren't majorly competitive, but they were massive crowd-pleasers all the same.

Wow nice, I actually like the Foxbody designs but I can only choose one category of the Mustang's. I have to make a final decision by the 7th of this month. I'm sure they were a major attraction to many groups of families back in the day. I'll have to look at more extensive videos about this model. And do more research too.