lucastrex

67 evil eleanor, is that your stable in those photos. i am not a purist, and would enjoy those babies any day! What part of the country are you in?

plainsman1876

I love the Eleanor Mustang , it deserves it's respect also , but I 'm keeping my 65 2+2 as close to stock as possible , one reason 90% of the people that see Her comments how beautiful she is or if she is for sale , and that she's a show car , so keep it simple but thats a personal choice

73 mach1 stroker

the gt 500 is a gt 500 the original Eleanor was a 71 mach 1 posing as a 73 mach 1 and built by H.B. Halicki. The gone in 60 seconds with Nicolas Cage was actually a remake the fisrt one was filmed in 1975. I love the 67 fastback bodystyle, but I perfer the 71- 73 mach 1's the true Eleanor's.

Norm Peterson

This IRS vs stick axle thing started over a comparison made between a relatively recent IRS and 60's stick axle technology that may have had to comply with some obscure60's competition rule. Live axles have evolved since.

Comparing the M3 against [regular] production live-axle cars isn't exactly a level playing field, as the M3 is something of an in-housetuner car with lots of other things going for it. Then again, the original Lotus 7's had live axles . . . Anyway, comparisons involving "real" tuner Mustangs or F-bodies (as opposed to appearance-driven efforts) with streetable wheel rates would be appropriate.

I wish I could get at the SCCA's website from here (work computer), so I could look up autocross resultsfor M3's and various stick axle cars, at similar levels of preparation and driven with a similar level of talent. Looking ahead a week or two, it will be interesting to see how Sam Strano does at this year's Nationalsin F-Stock (running a Mustang after being in F-bodies for many years) vs the A-Stock and B-Stock M3's. Sam is a member here, I think.


Norm

fast66

Ok Norm, perhaps a better comaprison would be to take any regular current3 series BMW then, its the same rear end and teh M3 anyway. Even try a 350Z. Thats got to be comparable to eventodays mustang live axle. Forget the 60s stuff.

fast65

Definetly too many Eleanors running around. I love the body kit and the paint scheme, but it's just way over done. It's a shame too, because it was definetly one great looking GT500, I can't really enjoy it now.

USMCrebel

I hate the Eleanor kit, it was cool in Gone In 60 seconds, but then everyone start cutting the **** outta the already beautiful classic cars just to have an imitation of her wtf?