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Playing Walter Mitty on the high banks of Daytona International
Raceway in an EcoBoost-powered 1986 Mustang
LAPS OF
HONOR:
ROUND 2
A
few months ago you may have
read about our adventures in
the 24 Hours of LeMons road
race at Road Atlanta and seen
the awesome video (mustang-360.com/
features/1902-laps-of-honor). We had a
riotous time in a pair of Mustang road race
cars—even under the horrible Georgia
winter conditions of freezing rain, ice, and
snow. The weather was miserable, but the
experience was incredibly fun.
During that December race, we had
planned on racing the Rustang—a visually
clapped-out but fully capable 1967 Mustang
hardtop—as well as a Fox-body with a 2.3L
EcoBoost swap. Because of the horrid
conditions, the team from Innovation
Performance Technologies (IPT) in North
Carolina decided to park the much nicer
(and more expensive to fix after piling it
into a concrete wall or tire barrier) Fox
and concentrate on the Rustang. Those
conditions also forced us to pack up and
head home with even worse weather on its
way, with a vow to make up for lost time at
the next event on the schedule.Rob Kinnan TEXT • MaryBeth Kiczenski PHOTOGRAPHY