From Sanair Super Speedway’s dragstrip in Quebec, we bring you one of the strangest heads-up races we’ve seen in a while. In the left lane is a 5.4-powered Ford Crown Victoria that has been converted to row-yer-own by using a Tremec 3650. Pier, the man behind the YouTube channel “p71c1” is well-known in the Panther world as one of the big proponents of doing the manual-trans swap on the big cars and he builds them to drive…violently. Given the number of Crown Vics that he’s messed with (according to my research), it’s impossible for me to tell which particular car he’s running, but it sounds healthy and launches off of the line cleanly.
In the other lane? A Mercury Villager. Yes, that rolling abomination of a minivan is in the other lane. But it’s packing one pissed off 351 and is in a hurry to dispatch the big Ford with prejudice. The result of this race? The Vic ran a 14.57@93 with a 1.989 sixty foot. The Mercury blasted out a 12.55@108 MPH. Take it from me, I’d love to watch Brian announce this particular race in person.
I must have more information about this 351 swapped Villager. Attempts at Googling that completely fail.