Usually, it's various police cars (not just Mustangs) chasing different other vehicles - not the other way around - on the streets. But anything can and will happen at the local quarter-mile dragstrip, believe that.
Because everyone should always obey laws and abide by common sense, we never encourage street racing – no matter how often Hollywood portrays it as something that can't go wrong, or when it does, there's no harm done to the ones involved. It's exactly the other way around, actually.
Anyway, there are many people who actively try to persuade folks to do the right thing – and take racing to the local tracks. And there's no need to take our word for granted, as we have an eloquent example involving the eternal Fox Body Mustang, one of the best little platforms for significant quarter-mile dragstrip modifications on a budget.
It comes courtesy of the videographer behind the Race Your Ride channel, which has been pretty absent these past months – but is now returning with a nice bang. Said crazy vehicle is a black 1988 Ford Mustang GT that was modified to impersonate a police car – though only at Byron Dragway, where it arrived for some feisty brawls.
It's a sight to behold, irrespective of the light and siren package, as the stickers say it all: 'Behind Bars Race Cars,' 'Street Racing Prevention Unit,' 'Illinois Beat the Heat,' 'Dare to resist drugs and violence,' and our favorite – 'Not for Prisoner Transport!' Anyway, we also find some of the technical details – it has meaty rear tires and a fresh-looking 347ci (5.0-liter) V8, rocking some shots of nitrous.
With that in mind and the bulging hood in sight, it's pretty clear this Fox Body Mustang GT was there for business (and our pleasure) at the dragstrip located in Byron, Illinois, United States, about one-and-a-half hours from Chicago. Interestingly, someone decided it was best to feud with a modern representative from the Mopar area, a Dodge Charger SRT 392 R/T Scat Pack.
While we don't know how much horsepower the modded Mustang GT had under its hood, the SRT 392 Hemi-equipped Charger R/T Scat Pack usually rocks a 6.4-liter featuring 485 ponies and 475 lb-ft (644 Nm) and is always a force to be reckoned with at the track. Well, as it turns out, despite the driver's best efforts, his Mopar ended up pursuing the Mustang GT rather than the other way around, as the 'police' Ford easily won both skirmishes.
If you're into classic cars, there is also a third brawl at the 2:14 mark, and maybe you can help us identify the make and model of the competitor in the left lane as we didn't catch a good look at it because we were busy watching the Ford Mustang GT smoke it good!
Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution. Full profile
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