Author Colin Comer takes us through the story of the greatest Mustang in history. Our Book Garage series showcases what every enthusiast should add to their library. 

If you’re going to write a book about the Ford Mustang, you might as well write one about the best Ford Mustang. Obviously, I’m talking about the Shelby Mustang, the pony car to end all pony cars. Whatever the normal Mustangs could do, Sheblys did better, both on and off the track. Shelby Mustang: The Total Performance Pony Car is yet another fine entry from Motorbooks that looks acutely into all things Mustang.

Earlier this year, I read another one from Motorbooks by author Donald Farr about the Boss Mustang. It doesn’t look like they’re going to break the chain of their successes any time soon on the topic of the Ford Mustang.
Six Ways From Sunday

Shelby Mustang: The Total Performance Pony Car is written by Colin Comer and features a rather nice forward by Lee Iacocca, Mr. Mustang himself. The subtitle alludes to Ford’s racing slogan from the 1960s. Henry Ford II got a real bee in his bonnet about racing for some reason. He didn?t want to just win here and there, he wanted complete domination. Total Performance was the slogan FoMoCo came up with, and Total Performance is what they got. They won at Indy, they won in NASCAR. Ford won at Le Mans and their corporate backing of the Cosworth engine assured them of Grand Prix immortality.

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