4 ON THE FLOOR - 4-speed manual transmission

BIG BLOCK Usually an engine that has a big bottom end as well as lots of cubic inches, like in the Sixties big blocks were 427 , 406, 428. The ironic thing is that if you bore out a small block big enough it can equal a big block in size but is still called a small block

BILSTEINS A high quality German shock absorber

BLOWER mechanically driven air pump put atop an engine, moreFormally known as superchargerBOSS Name coined by Larry Shinoda for the Boss 302 Mustang. Also used on Boss 429 Mustang.

BULLITT A Mustang built by Ford in honor of Steve McQueen’s movie BULLITT which had one heck of a car chase

CHEATERS Tires with hardly any tread for better grip

CHIN SPOILER To keep the nose from lifting in a race car

CID Cubic inches

COBRA: Originally a sports car with a tube frame and aluminum bodyMade by AC and supplied to Shelby American who installed Ford engines.Now ubiqious due to replica cloning.GT Originally meant “gran turisimo” as in “grand touring” which meant a car you could drive across Europe in at relatively high speeds.

KNIGHT RIDER A silly ass TV show but it stars a GT500KR Shelby so we love it

KNOCK OFFS. Wheels held on by a two or three eared piece that has to be knocked off with a special hammer. On all real AC Cobras.

KONIS a brand of Dutch made shock absorber offred in the early Shelbys

LAKES PIPES Some describe the side pipes on a car as this because theHot rods on the dry lake beds ran such pipes. Others call them “sidemount” exhausts

LE MANS STRIPES Two parallel stripes running front to back as on the ’65 Shelby MustangsMAGS wheels made of magnesium, though many people use the word forAluminum wheels as well

MONZA QUIK FILL Aluminum gas cap used on some Cobras. It could be snapped open and slammed shut which is why they were called Quik Fill

NACA DUCT A flush deck air scoop so it will be low drag. Named after NASA’s predecessors

QUAD four barrel carb . Dual quads is two four barrels

RAIN TIRES Especially grooved tires for the rain

RIVETS Flat headed rivets used on Cobras to stop hood from delaminating

RAM AIR System to take cold air into a car through a scoop and ram it into the enginefor more power

R-MODEL The racing model GT350 was called the R model, “R” for race

ROUSH Jack Roush is an entrepreneur in Detroit who makes modified Mustangs. He has over 50 businesses, and is an avid racetrack sponsor. He also flys a P51 Mustang.

SHELBY : Former East Texas failed chicken farmer, sometime race driver who won the 24 Hours of LeMans for Aston Martin in 1959. Later went on to build Cobras and Shelby Mustangs.

SHINODA, A famous Japanese American designer. Larry Shinoda was a hot rodder just after the war, did a lot of Corvette designs for GM then came over to Ford in time to do the Boss 302.

SMALL BLOCK Smaller displacement V8s like 221, 260, 289, 302

TACH Tachometer or revolution counter

TRANS AM Back in the Sixties this was a sedan racing series. Mustangs raced in it when the notchbacks were considered four seater sedans

SPOILER A wing on the rear deck or ducktail that adds downforce to the car at speed

TELLTALE TACH A rev counter that can leave a needle pointing to the max rpm the car attained so you know who to blame when the engine blows

TERLINGUA A place in Texas that even buzzards wouldn’t go to, but Shelby once marketed some land there by holding the Terlingua Chili Cookoff. Later he and his friends invented the Terlingua Racing Team and the badge was everywhere

TURBOCHARGER A blower but derives its power from siphoning off some of the hot exhaust to drive an wheel

VORTECH A brand of supercharger that is available for Mustang