Happy 25th Birthday: 1986 Shelby GLHS

[Marcus86GLHS]

Just a shout out of recognition to hitting The Big Two-Five for Carroll's first Dodge model to come out of his new Whittier, California facility. It was 25 years ago that he announced plans to produce a special version based on the GLH Turbo and designate it the GLH Shelby (later he was known to refer to the car as the GLH Somemore). The initial prototype rolled out about this time twenty-five years ago, and customer shipments began around June.

Here's a collection of some of my favorite examples of the '86 GLHS.

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/632619/1986-shelby-glhs/page-22


Please share your pix and stories.

[BadAssPerformance]

Hard to beleive its been 25 years! These cars were WAY ahead of their time!

Great idea for a thread! For all of our 86 GLHS owners, post up a couple pics and yout car numbers lets see how many we can get! :nod:

[dodgeshadowchik]

Time flies when you're having fun! :)

[cordes]

Very cool pics Marcus.

[Turboomni]

Although not a GLHS I remember my only new car purchase was a 1986 GLH Turbo that I bought in late 1985. Added the Mopar upgrade computer when it came out for the turbo 1 motor. I drove that car for 12 years every day till it rusted out. I still have parts from it in my basement. Great memories.

[86Shelby]

Here's a pic of my old GLHS #420 from about 2002. Paint was faded badly, the rain that day did wonders to make it look glossy. I did enjoy my time with the car; made a short throw shifter, added seats from a Shelby Charger since the originals were thrashed, ended up with a 2.5TII/555 combo but kept the rod linkage. I did my best to stay away from cutting up the car for any mods; or if a piece was modified it was only a bolt-on affair. The scoop is from a Rampage with the 2.2 package on a regular Omni hood. It was my daily from August of 2000 until Sept 2004 when an accident took it out of comission. Now it resides broken and in storage in the hands of a collector somewhere near the Chicago area.

http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/photopost/data/868/thumbs/100_0160_0001.jpg (http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=15488&title=glhs-420&cat=868)

[ScottD]

My car is #408. I just started a project log on it and have some pictures there with more to come.

[spyder]

142 still.....

http://i55.tinypic.com/2d7vaty.jpg

[omni_840]

Cool thread! My goal is to buy one of these:)

[black86glhs]

Like In my signature, #161 1986 4dr. Over 175,000 miles on it. Charger seats. A555. ANOTHER engine built for it. Lots of odds and ends to replace.2832728328283292833028331283322833328334

[168glhs1986]

It's hard to believe I'm getting that old! Maybe we can get Carroll out to SDAC to celebrate with us? Work on that Barry, it is within the realm of possibilities.

[jonnyb]

Good thread Mark!

Happy anniversary #141
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and #215!
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[Marcus86GLHS]

i wish i could read/see the replies but all i can do is enter this thread and click on "reply" at the very top...if i try to pan down to read any of the replies my browser crashes.

i miss the old turbo mopar format.

[cordes]

What browser are you running? I don't think anyone else is having this problem.

[jonnyb]

Sounds like a virus...been looking at a lot of porn lately Mark? :p

[Marcus86GLHS]

here's a cool pix taken at the Larz Auto Museum just outside of Boston, summer of 2008, i think this was one of the larger (if not the largest) gatherings of 86S cars in New England at one event:

http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2531/2389/6326194003_large.jpg

[30 PSI SHADOW]

Think we can beat that mark???

[Marcus86GLHS]

^great to shoot for but maybe not going to be easy. for example, Jonny would have to bring both #141 and #215 since he owns both now (he only owned #141 when the pix was taken and both are included in the group of cars in the picture). and we need Seth to finish his 86S (ya right thats never going to happen). the stars were aligned perfectly the day this pix was taken, not sure if that will happen again.

[Chad T]

#088 here. Glad to see you were able to get back in Mark. The wheels are off of the Daytona at the top of the page. Same set. :nod:


http://www.motorgeek.com/gallery/d/94661-1/overhead4.JPG?g2_GALLERYSID=e59690be83ab204e5c260d f20290baf2


http://www.motorgeek.com/gallery/d/94673-1/overhead6.JPG?g2_GALLERYSID=e59690be83ab204e5c260d f20290baf2

[30 PSI SHADOW]

seths car is running and he is driving it.. dont give up on that...

[Marcus86GLHS]

#088 looks great Chad. Happy Birthday to Schmelby.

BILL i wasnt aware Seth had the car completed, good for him, so maybe we will see it at the track this summer? What # is his car? I've asked him many times to share pix and info on the build-up but for some reason he doesnt seem to want to share. [for those not familair w/ Seth's 86S, its a T3].

[30 PSI SHADOW]

its a T3 with FAST. custom intercooler, and a stage 3 .63 turbo.

[jonnyb]

Yup - starts up and purrs like a kitten (well, at least as close to purring as those rackity T3's are possible of...LOL!). We brushed 2 feet of snow off of it last weekend and got it cleared up enough to open the hood and drivers door, he put the key in and it turned over for a 2 seconds before it fired right up to life. This was in ~18 degree weather, so I think he's got the cold start up and idle right!

[PEDEN]

I was only 4 when this car came out.http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs260.snc1/10725_506566452649_303800251_195751_3661416_n.jpg
#85, sorry if the link dosent work i am in a third world country trying to use the internet.

[168glhs1986]

On the track where we're the happiest.