By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

When I was nine and we were visiting my grandparents in Phoenix, my dad went and did a weekend course at the Bondurant School of High Performance Driving instead of taking us kids to Disneyland. And now, after riding along for some hot laps with a Bondurant instructor in one of their c6 Corvettes, I kind of get why he did that. Bondurant had a nice little cone course set up at the Motor Trend Proving Grounds at SEMA. Comically, some Fiesta Movement rides were also running the course in amongst the burly Vettes. The Z51 coupe I rode in has a 430 hp Ls3 mated to a short-throw Tremec six speed–I can’t even imagine how rad it’d be to thrash one of their LS7 Z06′s out on the track. Click below the jump for videos of all the action!

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By Jim Brennan

UDMan

Welcome to the CarDomain Obscure Muscle Car Parking Lot, a regular feature which aims to expand the notion of what a muscle car is, and to learn something new while doing so. Performance was seriously lacking during the first half of the 1980′s. With emphasis placed on ever more stringent environmental regulations on top of growing concerns about fuel economy, there seemed to be no place to turn if you wanted an affordable, fast, and fun car. That was all starting to change after 1982, when Ford dropped their 5.0L HO V8 under the hood of the then 4-year-old Mustang. Finally, a new car with that old V8 soundtrack, and it seemed like utopia during the dark days of the “Malaise” era. But something else was on the horizon at Ford. It took a requirement from the Bob Bondurant Racing School of High Performance Driving, and a couple of engineering mules, to produce an invisible performance car. Let’s take a look at a 4-door Mustang, the Ford LTD LX.

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