One of the cars promoted at the events: the soon-to-be released (for '88) Stallion Saber gen3 Afterburner.
Entering the challenge is a 4 door sedan version’s shell (as no regular 2 door coupes exist in the body styles for the model, only a hardtop as seen above) with the production 366ci-based de-bored and heavily retuned to a 360ci V8 pumping out 423hp. That shell has been modified (the rear doors are non-functional) and interior stripped, then fitted over a tubular steel spaceframe chassis. Using a beefed up race-spec 4 speed manual, the V8 sends power through a locking differential to the rear wheels.
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So I think a fair few of you will have cottoned onto who my team really are: it’s Penske Racing and the driver is of course the incredible Mark Donohue. As many of you will have heard from me by now, Stallion is an homage to AMC, who went racing in NASCAR with the Flying Brick, the Matador coupe, under Penske. The thing is that by 1987 Mark was already dead by this time but I’m just going to RP this a little differently by making him go to NASCAR at the end after his F1 episode and then lay the character down. The Saber mk3 is a modernized Spirit stretched up to the size of a Concord, and the Afterburner is something that visually mimics the Spirit AMX but actually goes more for something like a GNX in terms of performance. More on that soon. That V8 used here is something like a gen3.5 AMC V8, but again, it’s all Stallion. Anyway, so hopefully it does as well as the Matador did in real life 