Throwback Thursday: 1992 SAAC Mk1 Fox Body Retro Review
You almost have to be told this car exists. Ask anyone what the rarest Fox Body is, and they’ll likely quip it’s the Cobra R. With 107 of those made, they’d be pretty darn close. However, the SAAC Mk1 Shelby Cobra had only 65 produced. You can take that tidbit of knowledge with you to your next car show.
This car’s performance is relatively tame these days, but as you can see in the “Retro Review” below, for the time, it was fairly stout. 295 horsepower and 334 lb/ft of torque push along the 5.0. The 0-60 time is in the range of yesteryear, with 5.8 seconds covering the dash. Quarter-mile times are nothing to brag about, either, with 14.2 seconds being the stated target.
But considering this was the very early ’90s, that’s some pretty stout performance. SAAC backed up that performance with a fully-customized interior that featured leather throughout. Every one of the 65 was painted in the usual Shelby embellishments of white and blue. There are a few different reports out there that suggest not all of the 65 are quite the same, though. All of them dipped into the Ford motorsports parts bin, but some of the Snake models were a bit more stripped down.
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