Competition Profile
Jerry Titus turned Mustang credibility into results.
Titus moved from writing about sports cars to becoming one of the Mustang's first great road-racing names. That change matters because it gave the GT350 and early Trans-Am program a driver who could explain the car and win with it.
Image rights & changes
- Creator
- Charles from Port Chester, New York
- Exact source
- Open source record
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- CC BY 2.0 with creator, exact source, license, and changes identified.
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- Reuses the approved gallery derivative: auto-oriented, resized, and metadata removed.
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- July 26, 2026
Why Mustang people should care
- The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America credits Titus with the 1965 SCCA B Production National Championship in a Mustang GT350.
- Shelby brought him into Ford's Mustang Trans-Am effort, and Titus helped Ford take the 1966 and 1967 manufacturers' championships.
- His 1967 Terlingua Racing Team Mustang season gives buyers and historians a clear reason to treat early Shelby competition records with care.
Mustang connection
Titus is a bridge between the magazine page and the starting grid. Before the internet made every owner a reviewer, he was a racer-writer whose opinion carried weight with the exact audience Ford wanted: people who cared whether the Mustang was a genuine sports car or merely a clever new package.
On track, his Mustang story moved quickly. The GT350 proved itself in SCCA production racing, then the Trans-Am series gave Ford a place to fight Chevrolet and others with cars that looked close enough to showroom Mustangs for fans to care. Titus gave that fight a human face, especially in the 1967 Terlingua Mustang.
What to verify
For any Titus-linked Mustang, look for SCCA logbooks, period entry lists, SAAC registry notes, Terlingua team documentation, ownership records, and race photos that match body details. A Terlingua livery or number on a restored fastback is not enough by itself.
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