Filed under: LA Auto Show, Motorsports, Sports/GTs, Mitsubishi
Click above for high-res gallery of these fun '70s Mitsubishis
We might have skipped the Mitsubishi booth altogether this year at the LA Auto Show if it hadn't been for this pair of eye-catching cars from the '70s. While checking out the neighboring Audi booth we spotted a toad-green FTO and then caught a glimpse of what looked like an old F1 car. The racecar turned out to be the last single-seat racer Mitsu ever made, the 1971 Colt F2000. It actually won the Japan Grand Prix that year. It was powered by a 4-valve dohc 1,994 cc R39B that put out 290 PS. It was also one of the first open-wheelers to use those side-mounted radiators that became the standard in many forms of single-seater racing.
The other car was a 1973 Galant FTO GS-R. Fittingly painted toad-green, this little beast had warts all over it. Built between 1971 and 1975 the FTO was a rear-drive coupe that could be had with a number of different Neptune and Saturn fours ranging from 86 hp up to 110 hp for the top option 1,597 cc mill found in the GS-R. A spiritual predecessor to the Evos of today, both are some fun finds here at an otherwise somber LA Auto Show.
Live photos copyright (C)2008 Frank Filipponio / Weblogs, Inc.
LA 2008: Mitsubishi shows a pair of '70s novelties originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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