Poose Posted April 29, 2012 Report Share Posted April 29, 2012 My wife and I have recently become the owners of Shelby Dakota X2. My father-in-law worked and raced for Shelby American in Whittier in the 80s and 90s, and we got the truck from him. This is the white truck that was in all the magazines at launch and I understand that it set a speed record at Bonneville(?). Can't find any verification of this online, but we do have an extra specifically programmed ECM. Anyway, this was supposed to be #43 or #44. We don't have the #43/#44 plaque, but ours does have the X2 plaque -- image attached. I've been lurking a while and it doesn't seem that these trucks are all that valuable. We're going to restore it, but I was looking for opinions on what level it's worth restoring to. If this was a Shelby Mustang, I'd be planning my retirement. But if this seemingly unique truck isn't worth 10K, I'm not going to put 20 or 30 into it for a frame-off. We have the unique light bar and all the other important pieces, but even locating the most basic parts is a struggle. Dodge doesn't stock them from what I can tell. This is the first of probably many posts, so opinions welcomed. Thanks, Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLHS0136 Posted April 29, 2012 Report Share Posted April 29, 2012 That's very unique,, congrats. I have a white Shelby Dakota too. Its all about what its worth to you and what you want it to be. If you do a half a$$ job on a restoration, it is you that has to look at it all of the time. I have an old article boasting the Shelby Dakota was the world's fastest production pickup in the world beating out all other contenders from GM to Toyota, that might have been your X2. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelbymotorsports Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Welcome to the Team Shelby forums, glad you found us. Your father in law must have a last name starting with the letter H Anyway X2 is just that, its truck number X2. Shelby Dakota's #43 & #44 were normal production red paint Shelby's. The extra computer you have is probably the one sold out of the Shelby Performance catalog, basically a 360 V8 computer with some timing/fuel tweaks. S/Dak #X2 did have one of the earlier light bars compared to the majority of the trucks that used a later design light bar. Its hard to put into words the difference between the two light bars but if you had them side by side you would easily see the difference between them. And yes you are correct on the trucks value. Restoration costs on any of the Shelby Dodge's far exceed their value, you will always have more into the restoration than what you could sell it for. Even with a pre-production truck like X2, a $20k restoration would probably get you at best a $10k sale and that's only after waiting for the right buyer to come along. Just the way it is with the Dodge vehicles, almost 30 years since the first Dodge Shelby's were built and the majority sell for pennies. Best advice is to restore the truck if you're going to keep it in the family. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poose Posted May 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2012 Yes, his last name does start with H. Thanks for the input. We've been going off information he'd given us (such as it was supposed to be re-numbered), but it was just an average, everyday truck to him. He wasn't caught up in the details. It has over 300K miles on it, so needs some attention. We're planning on restoring it, just won't sweat trying to find NOS parts. It's been hard enough finding a fan switch. And yes, the light bar is different and thankfully there -- just held together with a bunch of rivets, but can be fixed. I'm sure we'll be checking in with questions. Thanks. Welcome to the Team Shelby forums, glad you found us. Your father in law must have a last name starting with the letter H Anyway X2 is just that, its truck number X2. Shelby Dakota's #43 & #44 were normal production red paint Shelby's. The extra computer you have is probably the one sold out of the Shelby Performance catalog, basically a 360 V8 computer with some timing/fuel tweaks. S/Dak #X2 did have one of the earlier light bars compared to the majority of the trucks that used a later design light bar. Its hard to put into words the difference between the two light bars but if you had them side by side you would easily see the difference between them. And yes you are correct on the trucks value. Restoration costs on any of the Shelby Dodge's far exceed their value, you will always have more into the restoration than what you could sell it for. Even with a pre-production truck like X2, a $20k restoration would probably get you at best a $10k sale and that's only after waiting for the right buyer to come along. Just the way it is with the Dodge vehicles, almost 30 years since the first Dodge Shelby's were built and the majority sell for pennies. Best advice is to restore the truck if you're going to keep it in the family. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAssPerformance Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Sounds like you got a nice Shelby Truck! Got any more pics of it? If you need any parts, I'm sure some of the SDAC folks can probably help out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poose Posted May 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2012 Sounds like you got a nice Shelby Truck! Got any more pics of it? If you need any parts, I'm sure some of the SDAC folks can probably help out! No pictures yet. It's pretty rough. Working on getting it running again this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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