You hit the nail on the head. They handled terrible. On my 65 Tiger with the 302, I could almost burn rubber forever. In 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, and more calm in 4th. If you wanted to street-race somebody, you had to take off slowly. Once up to round 20 MPH, and you stomped on it - it would fly. I had mine up to 130 MPH (at a track) when I started to lose all steering-feel and had to back down.
The lack of proper Ackerman-angle was a big flaw. Ackerman-Angle is supposed to be designed into all cars so the front wheels do not stay parallel to each other when turning. Make a left turn - and the left wheel is on a smaller turning circle then the right - so they have to toe-out when it's done right. Carol Shelby cut corners and did a lousy job on the steering.
Still have fond memories and wish I still had one of the ones I crashed and ruined.
A pure stock 1964 Tiger had a 260 V8 with a two-barrel carb and four speed trans. Tiger II had a 289. Real fun to drive, would cruise easily at 100 MPH, and at slower speeds get 24 MPG. Pretty impressive for the time. And gas was 25-32 cents a gallon. Chrysler Corp ruined the car. They bought Rootes Group and refused to use Ford engines. They tried to shoe-horn a Mopar 273 into it, but soon gave up on that boat-anchor.
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