Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords – October 2019

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COVER CAR I 1986 MUSTANG COUPE

10 OCTOBER 2019 WWW.MUSTANG-360.COM

ANDREW KELLY TRANSFORMED

HIS FOUR-EYED FOX DRIVER

INTO A SCARY-FAST

STREET/STRIP

RETROMOD

P

utting foot to

wood in his

coupe com-

mands all of

Andrew Kelly’s

concentration to keep this

turbocharged machine

tracking straight. This

wasn’t the car he imagined

TEXT STEVE TURNER PHOTOS WAYNE STEWART

when he picked up the high-

mileage four-eyed Fox back

in 1999, but it is the result

of a natural evolution of his

all-consuming passion for

automotive adrenaline.

Growing up in New

Smyrna Beach, Florida,

within a short drive of the

World Center of Racing,

Kelly quickly nurtured a

need for speed. His parents

were teachers, so hot rods

didn’t fill the driveway, but

his father did take Andrew

and his brother, Ryan, to

Daytona International

Speedway and Orlando

Speed World, where the

scents of tire smoke and race

gas coupled with the roar of

fast machines permeated his

every fiber.

Soon his brother went

through a string of cars until

he picked up the one that

really changed everything