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Re: Look what's back - GT 350 naming

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Subject: Re: Look what's back - GT 350 naming
From: Thomas - Sweden <csp311@telia.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 16:40:06 +0100
>From what I remember 350 was the hp SAE gross rating or
what they were going for. There was a GT500 K.R. (King of
the Road) and the King of Sweden own one. What other car
would have a more suitable name?

Thomas

SPL311RDST@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 1/7/02 7:08:33 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> bholland@hayes.ds.adp.com writes:
>
> > The cars height, 40 inches.  If we're on that subject, what does the 350 in
> > GT350 stand for?
>
> I know  this one... When they were trying to figure out what to name the car,
> they were standing 350 feet from the shop building and that's what stuck.
> This was per Carrol Shelby, don't know if he was trying to pull our leg or
> not.  When they up-rated to a larger engine it became the GT500 because it
> was a logically larger number.
>
> Laurie :-)
> 70 SPL311
> AzROC
> Chandler, AZ
>
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