Where are all the "Shelby" type guys?......

When Carroll Shelby stuffed a 260 / 289 Ford V8 into the AC Ace he created a high-performance legend-the original Cobra. Cobras dominated every race they entered whether it was on a road course or a drag strip. The Cobras success caused Zora-Arkus Duntov to push Corvette development. Others tried stuff like this. A friend of my dad's had an Austin Healey with a 327 Chevy stuffed in it. The buff magazines called this swap the "Poor man's Cobra".  Through the '70's my friends and I built cool stuff, with some help from the buff magazines and companies like Hooker. My dad and I built a V8 Vega when I was in high school. A girl I knew had a V8 Pinto.  Another friend put a 350 into a Chevy LUV pickup. That truck was brutally quick since the LUV had something like 4.33:1 gears in the rear end.  My dad and I put a 350 Chevy into a Datsun 240Z. My cousin had a Datsun SPL311 with a 215 inch Buick V8 and a Muncie 4-speed. Guys were always fooling around with stuff like that and the cars were always great fun to drive and really fast. I guess maybe newer cars have just too much electronic nannies to mess with. I mean you don't see someone putting a small-block Chevy into a Saturn Sky or a 5.0 Ford into a Miata.  Maybe they just plain won't fit-I don't know anyone who has tried. Once in a while you'll see a small-block Chevy in an S10 pickup.  I saw a Pontiac Fiero that had a supercharged 3.8 V6 and transaxle in it's mid-engine compartment. It was undgodly fast. I think we need more of these projects. I'll do some research and see if their feasible. Maybe we can do a "Project Junkyard Dog" and put a Supercharged 3.8 out of a Riviera in an '80's Firebird, or a Supercharged 3.8 Ford out of a wrecked T-Bird into a '90's Mustang. How about a Dodge Dakota with a 360 Magnum stroked to 410 inches?  Any one else have any suggestions?  Mastermind