The Phony Pony Funny Ford Mustang was each a true funny car and a true “phony” automotive! The car was engineered by drag racer Junior Brogdon back within the late 1960?s. It was a Ford and was primarily based off of the Mustang, hence the “pony” in its name. Bordgon engineered the car to induce into funny automotive racing when he had great success racing Super Stock within the AHRA. However when he built Phony Pony the automobile ended up being funny in an exceedingly different way. A completely different approach than simply being a haul car with an altered wheel primarily based and a flip high. It had been funny because it absolutely was additional like a dragster with a automobile body on prime of it!
The Phony Pony was a slingshot dragster with a Mustang body on top of it (currently you recognize why it’s phony) with it Brogdon would run a few totally different set ups, the most common founded was 2 Ford 289 HIPO motors. The 289s would sometimes be carbureted alternative times each would Injected. Other set ups he would run would just be one injected 289, a single blown 289 or just one 289.
When the Phony Pony debuted the NHRA would not consider it a real funny automobile thus Brodgon continuously had to run it at Match races only. Even at Match Races most of the fans and spectators didn’t want to determine it, they weren’t huge fans of the faux funny cars and didn’t need to work out a dragster with a car body. (Weird because I think its cool as hell!)
The best time Phony Pony ever ran was eight.thirty six seconds @ one hundred sixty five.
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