Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords – October 2019

In the battle within the

battle, Henry Crawn’s diesel-

powered 1968 F-100 emerged

as the top Ford pickup of the

weekend, finishing just inside

the Top 20 in the Classic Car

Liquidators GTV class. He also

picked up a free set of tie-

downs from Mac’s Custom Tie

Downs for having the worst-

looking tie-downs in the pits.

Daytona International Speedway is a special place.

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slightly different from a typi-

cal weekend, in part to make

the financial numbers work.

That meant the Falken Tire

Road Course Time Trial and

the PowerStop Brakes Speed

Stop Challenge were held on

the first day, and the first day

was a Friday instead of the

usual Saturday. That allowed

the series to run the QA1

Autocross on the go-kart

track on Saturday while the

Champcar Endurance Series

took to the big track.

The field was also larger,

which resulted in Ford rep-

resentation in most of the

seven classes that competed,

including the newly formed

Outlaw Class, which is not

eligible to compete for the

Frank Watson couldn’t

have picked a better

venue than the high

banks of Daytona

for the debut of his

1968 Ford F-100 in the

Optima series.

Optima Ultimate Street Car

Invitational (OUSCI) title

but does still offer an invita-

tion to the SEMA Show and

the opportunity to compete

for the class cup in Las

Vegas.

Ken Kelley of Classic Car

Liquidators brought out his

recently acquired Fox-body

Mustang, which had done

John McKissack came a long way from San Leandro, California, to have his weekend

shortened by engine issues. He did manage to salvage an autocross run, netting him

the FireAde Great Save of the Weekend Award, which included a free fire extinguisher.