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.
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