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I'm pretty confident with that statement, mostly because I'm likely the only one crazy/stupid enough to waste my time on a K-based car. 
That being said, here's my Shelby. It's number 707 of 800, and even being one of the later numbers it was one of the first built. Its' a light-gray Recaro cloth interior/5-speed car - Only 395 Lancers were so equipped, with 400 being dark gray leather Recaro/auto-trans cars. The remaining 5 were press cars that were leather/5-speed cars. To the best of my knowledge there were no cloth/auto cars built. All Lancers from Shelby were Graphic Red, although Chrysler offered the Dodge Lancer Shelby in Frost White during 1989 as the only other option. Lancers are the last car I believe to be built in the Whittier, California plant before Carroll moved his operation to Las Vegas.
This is also one of the 60 or so Lancers that Thrifty Rent-A-Car purchased in an agreement with Shelby and Chrysler back in the '80s, and was delivered June 6th 1987 to Thrifty Rent-A-Car in Hollywood, California. It was stolen from the Thrifty lot in 1990 and had the stereo and number plaque stolen [these are one of the first American cars to feature a factory-installed CD player, a Pioneer DEX-77 with 10 speakers, a 12-channel equalizer and separate amplifiers for each channel]. It was then sold to someone in Arizona with about 30k on the clock, then in 1991 the old guy I bought it from picked it up with 48k on it. He drove it off-and-on as the family road-trip car until September 2007 when his son drove it to work and popped the head gasket. Then it sat in the back of the garage until July '11 when I bought it. Mileage at that time was 88,034mi.
Also of interest to note - Since the original signed number plaque was stolen, the previous owner contacted Shelby directly in 1991 and ordered a replacement plaque ... as far as I have found in addition to what others in the Turbo Mopar and Shelby scenes have been able to find, Number 707 is the last replacement plaque to be made, and was shipped on October 16, 1991. Enclosed with the plaque was a final invoice, the Shelby Supplemental Service Manual, and a note from Jan, Carroll's secretary, on company letterhead, to the previous owner. Everything is still in original packaging, and my anal ass will probably leave it there, haha.
This car still has the signed Shelby steering wheel built by Personal, and currently has a Chrysler-Infinity premium audio tape deck with auxiliary input to replace the original Pioneer unit. Only the original Pioneer door and rear deck speakers remain, the dash tweeters are missing for some reason. The wheels are 15x6.5" +35 Shelby One-Piece cast mesh, in 5x100 PCD. A set of these in worse condition, without the center caps [I have all 4 btw] or tires sold for over $1200 a few months ago on eBay. These came with an intercooled turbo 2.2 Chrysler Common-Block counter-flow SOHC inline-four, making 175hp @ 12psi, and features a Shelby-only "scramble boost" function that allows boost to spike to 15psi for up to 15 seconds - conveniently enough, the same amount of time it took these cars to run the 1/4 mile at sea level.
Between one of my commutes between Salt Lake City, Utah and Albuquerque, New Mexico, a motor mount broke causing the engine to rotate forward and destroy the passenger-side axle. Said broken mount also punched the oil pan and unseated the cork [wtf Chrysler] gasket. I limped it back to Albuquerque, where a dying oil pump and leaking pan were the original engines' demise. Thankfully the original liquid-cooled Garrett T3 was salvageable, sadly nothing else is [including the head I put almost $1k into 3,000 miles prior].
This poor bastard has been sitting behind my boss' motorcycle shop which I'm currently staying at since the middle of November. Since my daily-driver Chrysler Conquest is giving me fits and is soon requiring service, I've decided to start tinkering with the Shelby to get it ready for ultra-low DD status.
That being said, here's my Shelby. It's number 707 of 800, and even being one of the later numbers it was one of the first built. Its' a light-gray Recaro cloth interior/5-speed car - Only 395 Lancers were so equipped, with 400 being dark gray leather Recaro/auto-trans cars. The remaining 5 were press cars that were leather/5-speed cars. To the best of my knowledge there were no cloth/auto cars built. All Lancers from Shelby were Graphic Red, although Chrysler offered the Dodge Lancer Shelby in Frost White during 1989 as the only other option. Lancers are the last car I believe to be built in the Whittier, California plant before Carroll moved his operation to Las Vegas.
This is also one of the 60 or so Lancers that Thrifty Rent-A-Car purchased in an agreement with Shelby and Chrysler back in the '80s, and was delivered June 6th 1987 to Thrifty Rent-A-Car in Hollywood, California. It was stolen from the Thrifty lot in 1990 and had the stereo and number plaque stolen [these are one of the first American cars to feature a factory-installed CD player, a Pioneer DEX-77 with 10 speakers, a 12-channel equalizer and separate amplifiers for each channel]. It was then sold to someone in Arizona with about 30k on the clock, then in 1991 the old guy I bought it from picked it up with 48k on it. He drove it off-and-on as the family road-trip car until September 2007 when his son drove it to work and popped the head gasket. Then it sat in the back of the garage until July '11 when I bought it. Mileage at that time was 88,034mi.
Also of interest to note - Since the original signed number plaque was stolen, the previous owner contacted Shelby directly in 1991 and ordered a replacement plaque ... as far as I have found in addition to what others in the Turbo Mopar and Shelby scenes have been able to find, Number 707 is the last replacement plaque to be made, and was shipped on October 16, 1991. Enclosed with the plaque was a final invoice, the Shelby Supplemental Service Manual, and a note from Jan, Carroll's secretary, on company letterhead, to the previous owner. Everything is still in original packaging, and my anal ass will probably leave it there, haha.
This car still has the signed Shelby steering wheel built by Personal, and currently has a Chrysler-Infinity premium audio tape deck with auxiliary input to replace the original Pioneer unit. Only the original Pioneer door and rear deck speakers remain, the dash tweeters are missing for some reason. The wheels are 15x6.5" +35 Shelby One-Piece cast mesh, in 5x100 PCD. A set of these in worse condition, without the center caps [I have all 4 btw] or tires sold for over $1200 a few months ago on eBay. These came with an intercooled turbo 2.2 Chrysler Common-Block counter-flow SOHC inline-four, making 175hp @ 12psi, and features a Shelby-only "scramble boost" function that allows boost to spike to 15psi for up to 15 seconds - conveniently enough, the same amount of time it took these cars to run the 1/4 mile at sea level.
Between one of my commutes between Salt Lake City, Utah and Albuquerque, New Mexico, a motor mount broke causing the engine to rotate forward and destroy the passenger-side axle. Said broken mount also punched the oil pan and unseated the cork [wtf Chrysler] gasket. I limped it back to Albuquerque, where a dying oil pump and leaking pan were the original engines' demise. Thankfully the original liquid-cooled Garrett T3 was salvageable, sadly nothing else is [including the head I put almost $1k into 3,000 miles prior].
This poor bastard has been sitting behind my boss' motorcycle shop which I'm currently staying at since the middle of November. Since my daily-driver Chrysler Conquest is giving me fits and is soon requiring service, I've decided to start tinkering with the Shelby to get it ready for ultra-low DD status.
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[For the record, Dodge had the Lancer moniker in the '60s, a few years before Mitsu]
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