This is among the most awesome American Powertrain Parting Shift videos we have ever posted. For starters the car is magnificent. You’ll be riding in an absolute hammer of a 1968 Mustang. Packing a medium rider 427 FE big block Ford engine, it is a reconstruction of a car campaigned in England by racer Martin Birrane. The car is one of three that were built for export by Holman Moody for blue oval racers on the road courses of Europe. The crazy thing about this car is that it has aluminum heads and an aluminum intake manifold that were actually produced by Ford for their export race cars. Apparently, these parts were never even offered to racers in the USA. This car has ’em all and holy smokes it is a monster.
You are going to see the car competing at Portland International Raceway during the Portland historic races in 2013. This race happened to be a Corvette anniversary event and the good news is that a Corvette was leading the field…on the pace lap. Yes, the Mustang qualified on the pole and led all the other cars around the track like dogs on leashes. You will see a 1969 ZL-1 in the wink mirror a time or two and there are flashes of other cars in the side mirrors every now and again but this Mustang was the dominating star of the show.
The noise and violence of this car are both things to behold. I purposefully started the video a couple of seconds before the driver got the green flag and hammered the gas. You can see him on the back straight with the revs primed and the car ready to leap and boy does it ever! The acceleration is amazing and the sounds that the medium riser 427 FE engine makes are just the baddest thing you’ll hear all day.
The car makes power everywhere. The driver does not have to row the thing like a boat because the car is so strong down low he can pull hard out of the corners even when the revs are down. This is one absolutely brutal road racing Ford!
A sincere thanks to John Jenkins for the tip on this absolutely awesome car!
