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Taken from a US forum:

The car is a 1989 notchback with a 351 dart block stroked to 427 cid. I run tfs-r heads ported by TEA and an efi spyder. The blower is a procharger F-2. I tune the car via an accel gen VII. To many people's surpise, the transmission is a lentech AOD. I drive the car all over the place and don't own a trailer. It is by no means a gutted race car. It has a full interior and a stereo with a 10 inch subwoofer in the trunk. The car weighs in at a porky 3650 with me in it.

The thing that throws off most people about the car is that it pretty much looks like your average 13 second mustang with a set of 17 inch rims on it. The car has a stock hood and everything runs through a set of 3 inch tailpipes. The car sounds healthy, but nobody expects it to run the numbers it does. My current best et is an 8.91 at 160 mph.

I actually got my NHRA competition license on 17 inch rims. I think I might have been the first person in history to do that.

Anyway, here are some pictures:

exterior shot after an nmra race (normally there are no stickers on the car):

mmffshoot1.jpg

Pulling a heavy 17 inch wheel off the ground:

launchpic.jpg

Just your average notchback:

frontside.jpg

Interior shot:

interior1.jpg

Motor shot:

a2wmotor2.jpg

I do have a set of drag rims, but have not actually made a full pass on them.

alumastarsidesunny.jpg

does anyone else thing they look like an XF coupe?

YES!

I first glanced at the photos an thought.. "geee.. another bogan that made their XF run on VB and got their mate to push it to the pub in under 8 sec"

Very impressive though..

Hmmm considering its LHD, it looks like the pipe going to the cooler would be going drivers side of the cabin? That seems like a weird setup, where in the cabin is the cooler located?

Absolutely phenomenal car though, crazy crazy numbers to be running!!

Nice find, Adrian.

This is exactly my kind of car, low key, no fuss, clean and tidy looking on matching 17's, nice engine set-up and under bonnet detail, with serious grunt and outstanding results on the strip!

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