Now THIS is awesome. Back in 1965, Wyoming resident Roger Slump decided that he needed a Mustang fastback drag car with a Ford Cammer engine in it to terrorize the drag strips of NHRA Division 5. He completed the car that year and from 1966-1972 it was raced by a guy named Dave Mullins with success within it the division. As the car sits today it still has the same roll cage and the same rear axle that Mark Williams put together in 1965 underpinning the car. How awesome is that? It also wears the magnesium Halibrand wheels and hilborn mechanical fuel injection as well. This thing is freaking awesome from the color of the body right through every other element of its existence, including the flake steering wheel that has been on the car for 50 years as well.
Restored years ago by Bob Becker, this is one of the coolest old drag cars we have ever stumbled upon while searching eBay. In fact, I can’t even take all the credit for finding this one. I am employing my home-for-the-summer eight year old to cruise eBay and find good stuff and HE actually located this sucker. How great is that?!
The car has cammer engine #247 in it right now and that is the engine that was run in the car when it competed (as the ad claims) in the A/FX category back then. The engine was gone through in 2012 and upgraded in several areas of the rotating assembly to keep it happy and strong running as it is used at nostalgia events and other races these days. The transmission is a Ford C6 automatic and as mentioned, the rear end is filled with Mark Williams axles that were first installed during the initial build in 1965! How is that for a testament to quality?!
Equipped with the latest in 1965 suspension tech, the machine has clamped leaf springs and traction bars to get all the power to the ground. The original Simpson parachute from 1965 lives on the back of the car, and the original roll cage is inside it. The best the car ran was 9.97 back then before it was put out to figurative pasture in the early 1970s. The car has been a racer since DAY ONE. There is not a spec of rust on it and honestly if you wanted to “restore” a Mustang it would make a solid body candidate because of the condition the original steel is in. That being said, we’d hit anyone who took this car apart with a shovel…hard.
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Flat side of the shovel, flat side of the shovel…….
That Mustang has been around,all over the country! Looks nice,last time I saw it [CHRR] they were having trouble sorting out the electronic fuel injection,converted mechanical individual runner type!Good looking car!!
Shovel? Chainsaw more like!
How neat it would be to make this baby streetable – 5 or 6 speed Tremec gearbox, EFI conversion keeping the neat injector stacks and perhaps making the suspension more amenable to corners.
That’s how to improve on perfection!
Is that a “cowl induction” hood?
Sold for $35K. Per the ad, was already computer controlled. The 9.97 was at Denver, so there’s more in ‘er!!! Let’s see it at Meltdown 2016!
no sale, reserve not met! No way in hell would they only sell it for 35thou. The cammer is worth way more than that! Awesome car!!!
My husband’s name was Roger Schlump