History of MPR's personal 86 Mustang SS/F Car - Page 2

Bob Rice · 01-02-2008, 11:52 AM

Smitty,
I found the VHS tape with that show on it. I will try to get you a copy made.
Bob Rice

01-02-2008, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob Rice

Smitty,
I found the VHS tape with that show on it. I will try to get you a copy made.
Bob Rice

Bob,

Thanks alot, I will gladly pay you for your trouble and the tape. I will pm you my info later today.

Smitty

MPR · 01-02-2008, 06:50 PM

My Mustang appeared in several magazine articles in the couple of years it was raced. I saw it at Martin, MI a few years back with a bracket motor in it. The Mustang was built from a new 1984 LX pilot car obtained by my racing partner at the time and friend George Wright. It was built just like the GT cars we are building today except the frame rails were 2x3 rectangular and now all the Super Stockers are round tube. The Mustang kinda got me started in the chassis building business and was really a fun car to build and race! We won a bunch of awards at the Cobo Hall Autorama in Detroit and then went to Gainsville for its debut. Travis, we went to the barn way too many times!

sstSteveM · 01-02-2008, 07:21 PM

Motyka's are hard core Ford guys and race a lot of NMRA.
Here it is last year. Very pretty car.

Don Sofranko · 01-02-2008, 10:22 PM

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

01-02-2008, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by sstSteveM

Motyka's are hard core Ford guys and race a lot of NMRA.
Here it is last year. Very pretty car.

Very good looking car, the article I have shows the car actually built as a GT not a Saleen. I guess a few years down the road the favorable hood clearance won out over the flat hood. My friends in North Carolina built a similar peice around that time also, the drver was Melvin Revels and they ran the 285/324 HP cmbo in SS/F also. I will see if I can get some pics of their car scanned and post it. It was and still is a decent car but not built as nice as Mikes.

01-02-2008, 11:13 PM

Here is picture of my friends former SS/F AND SS/GTB Mustang. The car had Lafayette Ford on the side before the painted over it and before when it was mostly white it had Kreative Kustoms on the door when it
ran in SS/F.
Can someone tell me how to upload a photo to my message or I can just send it to them to post.

Stephen & Horace Johnson · 01-02-2008, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Terrance Smith

Here is picture of my friends former SS/F AND SS/GTB Mustang. The car had Lafayette Ford on the side before the painted over it and before when it was mostly white it had Kreative Kustoms on the door when it
ran in SS/F.
Can someone tell me how to upload a photo to my message or I can just send it to them to post.

anyway of finding out if this car is for sale or not??

Doyle Evans · 01-02-2008, 11:26 PM

Hey Smitty,

How are the Revels doing? I haven't seen them in a long time. Great people!

I will also look for the tape on Vince. My old camaro was on there next to Steve Evans (no relation -lol) so a buddy got me a copy.

Doyle Evans

01-02-2008, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Doyle Evans

Hey Smitty,

How are the Revels doing? I haven't seen them in a long time. Great people!

I will also look for the tape on Vince. My old camaro was on there next to Steve Evans (no relation -lol) so a buddy got me a copy.

Doyle Evans

They are doing pretty good, their dad passed away about 3 or 4 years ago however. They kind of fell out of class racing when he got sick. I talk with Melvin often, he is bracket racing their old car with his son driving.
As for that NHRA today piece, I don't know where I was that day when it was on but I missed it. Vince's shop was only about 10-15 miles from where I gre up and I actually bought house near where the shop is, only about 2 miles from it now but no one has been in it since his son went to jail. Lot of history and memries in that place over there. From the times I had the chance to meet Vince he seemed like a real cool guy.
How are you guys doing with the Vette?

01-02-2008, 11:52 AM	#11
Bob Rice Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: New Bern, NC Posts: 617 Likes: 0 Liked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: History of MPR's personal 86 Mustang SS/F Car Smitty, I found the VHS tape with that show on it. I will try to get you a copy made. Bob Rice

01-02-2008, 06:50 PM	#13
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 My Mustang appeared in several magazine articles in the couple of years it was raced. I saw it at Martin, MI a few years back with a bracket motor in it. The Mustang was built from a new 1984 LX pilot car obtained by my racing partner at the time and friend George Wright. It was built just like the GT cars we are building today except the frame rails were 2x3 rectangular and now all the Super Stockers are round tube. The Mustang kinda got me started in the chassis building business and was really a fun car to build and race! We won a bunch of awards at the Cobo Hall Autorama in Detroit and then went to Gainsville for its debut. Travis, we went to the barn way too many times!

01-02-2008, 07:21 PM	#14
sstSteveM Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 49 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: History of MPR's personal 86 Mustang SS/F Car Motyka's are hard core Ford guys and race a lot of NMRA. Here it is last year. Very pretty car.

01-02-2008, 10:22 PM	#15
Don Sofranko Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Iowa Posts: 110 Likes: 0 Liked 111 Times in 28 Posts	Re: History of MPR's personal 86 Mustang SS/F Car 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

01-02-2008, 11:13 PM	#17
Terrance Smith Guest Posts: n/a	Re: History of MPR's personal 86 Mustang SS/F Car Here is picture of my friends former SS/F AND SS/GTB Mustang. The car had Lafayette Ford on the side before the painted over it and before when it was mostly white it had Kreative Kustoms on the door when it ran in SS/F. Can someone tell me how to upload a photo to my message or I can just send it to them to post. Last edited by Terrance Smith; 01-02-2008 at 11:20 PM. Reason: Couldnt ad pic

01-02-2008, 11:26 PM	#19
Doyle Evans Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 141 Likes: 0 Liked 16 Times in 6 Posts	Re: History of MPR's personal 86 Mustang SS/F Car Hey Smitty, How are the Revels doing? I haven't seen them in a long time. Great people! I will also look for the tape on Vince. My old camaro was on there next to Steve Evans (no relation -lol) so a buddy got me a copy. Doyle Evans