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This Fox body Mustang running high 9 second passes at a Street Car Takeover event started life built for a very different kind of high speed pursuit. Ford’s Special Service Package Mustangs were built for the California Highway Patrol and dozens of other agencies, reinforced from the frame up for real police duty. When those cars retired, their stiffened chassis and the massive 5.0 liter aftermarket turned them into some of the best cheap drag car donors around.
A ’55 Chevy Bel Air nicknamed ’55 2.0′ built a six-race winning streak in no-prep racing, a format designed from the ground up to punish anything except perfect throttle control. No-prep events leave the track surface untreated on purpose, so raw horsepower matters less than a driver’s ability to manage traction that changes run to run. Cars in this world often exceed 1,500 horsepower using nitrous, turbos, or superchargers, all crammed into bodies that still have to look like the muscle cars they started as. Running on less than a full nitrous system and still winning says something about where the real advantage lives.