Rare Ride: The 1991 Dodge Spirit R/T, Big Performance Much like when Carroll Shelby applied sporty touches to the compact Dodge Shadow to make the Shelby CSX, Dodge added zest to the midsize Spirit in the early Nineties to create the Spirit R/T. Let’s go. This won’t be our first rodeo with an R/T badged vehicle, as that honor goes to the Daytona IROC R/T featured early this year. Customers for the Spirit were a little more practical, and knew they needed all four doors present and accounted for in their sports car. The Spirit was born in 1989, as a replacement for the aging 600 and Lancer midsize cars. It was smaller and less expensive than the Dodge Dynasty and shared one year in showrooms with a midsize dinosaur, the Diplomat. Among all the K-car platform variants, the Spirit was a new AA: a K stretched a