[Gaoler1973]

I have seen some pictures from back in the day with Mr. Shelby standing by a Sante Fe Blue and silver 85/86 Daytona. This car apparently is referred to as the "Daytona 4" and had a TII with all-wheel drive. I find this car to be very interesting, but I have had a hard time finding much data about it.

Any information and pictures of this car would make for an interesting thread! Anybody know what became of it?

[shelbymotorsports]

I know which car you are referring to but I'm not sure if the name is right, could be just can't recall at the moment.

Also if I recall it had a 4 valve per cylinder head, 4 wheel drive and 4 wheel disc brakes. Or maybe it was just 4 cylinder motor, 4 wheel drive and 4 wheel discs.

The best article on the car was in either Hot Rod or Popular Hot Rodding Magazine.

Steve

[shelbymotorsports]

Best article on the prototype is from the January 1986 issue of Hot Rod magazine.

Steve

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[rare_ram]

An interesting article here.

http://www.front-run..._daytona_4.html

This post has been edited by rare_ram: 29 July 2009 - 08:04 PM

[Gaoler1973]

That "Frontrunners" article is a good one. I have seen it before. In fact, it was reading that article that had got me interested about the car! I am somewhat surprised that there seems to be only a couple of articles on such an interesting car!

Thanks for the replies

[shelbymotorsports]

Rare Ram, thanks for the linky.

Here's a copy of the Hot Rod article:

Hot Rod Article On The Daytona 4

[rare_ram]

You're welcome. I love talking to the people over there, they are a different breed. We can complain about parts availability, but they really have a hard time of it.

[rare_ram]

Talking about the frontrunner people made me have to post again. About a month ago I had posted a pic of the engine that I had just painted for my Caravan project. The following weekend I post a new pic of it fully assembled. One of the people there posted this. I laughed so hard...

Errr, do you mind slowing down a bit, we don't opperate at quite that pace.

Ill do your scheduling:

July - fit head,
August - fit ancillaries,
Sep - rest,
Oct - belts,
November - rest,
December - nearly Christmas, so rest

2010

January - too fat and lazy post Chistmas to do anything,
Feb - stand in garage looking at engine going "ppphhhhhh where did i get to?",
March - buy some shiney bits
April - change your mind about engine colours.
May - choose engine colours
June - put project on hold due to stress of choosing engine colours.

We could keep up with you then.

[Gaoler1973]

rare_ram, on Jul 30 2009, 08:31 PM, said:

Talking about the frontrunner people made me have to post again. About a month ago I had posted a pic of the engine that I had just painted for my Caravan project. The following weekend I post a new pic of it fully assembled. One of the people there posted this. I laughed so hard...

Errr, do you mind slowing down a bit, we don't opperate at quite that pace.

Ill do your scheduling:

July - fit head,
August - fit ancillaries,
Sep - rest,
Oct - belts,
November - rest,
December - nearly Christmas, so rest

2010

January - too fat and lazy post Chistmas to do anything,
Feb - stand in garage looking at engine going "ppphhhhhh where did i get to?",
March - buy some shiney bits
April - change your mind about engine colours.
May - choose engine colours
June - put project on hold due to stress of choosing engine colours.

We could keep up with you then.

Maybe I'll move over there... sounds like I'd fit right in.