History of MPR's personal 86 Mustang SS/F Car

Mark Tallent · 01-03-2008, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Don Sofranko

Great thread here, I missed that period of National event racing. That must have been a wild bunch of Detroit natives on the loose! Mike.... did anyone get some video of that car in the day? What year did you guys quit running that piece? Was that car at Indy in 1989 or 1990? A friend of mine decided to get hitched in the 1989 Indy weekend! No one should have scheduled anything on that weekend, ever.!!!

It was a great period from the late 70's thru the 90's. I think it will probably go down as the all time best period of class racing. I went to Indy in 1990 and taped all of the class runoffs. Those were some good days. I think Indy 1990 had 245 entries in SS. Now that was a tough field.

see ya

Don, Any chance you will bring your car back in SS/L we need more participants to say the least.

MPR · 01-03-2008, 09:25 AM

Don,
I think 1989 was the last Indy I went to with the old Mustang. I do have some old video but I haven't watched it for years and I don't know if they are any good now. The hood on the car now is not a stock Saleen hood and we didn't convert the car to a Saleen for hood clearance. I first ran the car as an 85 and in 87 the front facia, bumper cover, tail lights and rear bumper cover changed so we updated the car. After running it at only a race or two we converted it to a Saleen mainly because we liked the way the Saleen looked better than the LX. Too bad about Loyd Bray, we raced a few times back then. I think Ron Goodell built Loyds Mustang and Loyd and D.G. ran a Cobra Jet.

01-03-2008, 09:25 AM	#2
MPR Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 48 Likes: 0 Liked 23 Times in 8 Posts	Re: History of MPR's personal 86 Mustang SS/F Car Don, I think 1989 was the last Indy I went to with the old Mustang. I do have some old video but I haven't watched it for years and I don't know if they are any good now. The hood on the car now is not a stock Saleen hood and we didn't convert the car to a Saleen for hood clearance. I first ran the car as an 85 and in 87 the front facia, bumper cover, tail lights and rear bumper cover changed so we updated the car. After running it at only a race or two we converted it to a Saleen mainly because we liked the way the Saleen looked better than the LX. Too bad about Loyd Bray, we raced a few times back then. I think Ron Goodell built Loyds Mustang and Loyd and D.G. ran a Cobra Jet.