Bobby Fazio gives us a ride in his high-winding, 9,000-rpm Super Stock Ford 1965 Mustang. Watch as he rows the gears in his Jerico 4-speed and learn what makes it go!
Had a buddy that had a 302 boss motor in a maverick around 700” lift solid lifter cam! It literally sounded like it was gonna blow during every shift! Not too mention best sounding motor i have heard
@@manher4335 302 boss is a natural revving engine, it would be very expensive to get a 289 to rev to 9,000 rpm reliably, the inertial forces are incredible.
@@Joetrout I have an old early Mustang with a early 302 in it, does sound along with my old Ford and Merc Flathead, the best sound of any V8's, 350's do not sound nearly the same or as great in any form, stock or not.
I had a friend in high school who owned a 64 Falcon Sprint with a built 289 hypo. That little car was super fast. The 289 is an engine you can really wind out. I was with him when he raced a 396 Chevelle in Salem Oregon. He flat out walked away from that big block Chevy. I couldn't believe how fast that Falcon was. I would later buy a 1964 Comet Cyclone with a 289 hypo. It was all stock but I put a close ratio 4 Speed in it. I still wish I had that Comet Cyclone, you just don't see those cars around anymore.
Absolutely LOVE this car! not only is it a FORD, but it has a FORD motor in it! So sick of the LS swaps! My first car was a '65 GT 289 with Melling cam I turned 7 grand.
i am 70 years old now , back in 1972 i bought my first car from a dealer , it was a 1965 mustang 6 cyl 3 speed, i put a 289 4 barrel dual points in it; what a job, boy did i get in trouble that car back in the day, yep and it was red, wish i had it today. thanks for the memory.
The 289 V8 was one of Ford's best engines. Great BHP per Cubic Inch, even in stock form. The 289, although not made anymore, is still earning its keep in NHRA Super Stock Eliminator as seen here. Very stylish looking Mustang too!
MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR IN WHITTIER/LA MIRADA HAD A 65 TANG...2 4BBLS ON A TUNNELRAM...I HEARD IT SCOOTED WELL...NEVER GOT TO SEE OR HEAR IT RACE...DANG IT...
This is the MAN'S version of a drag car boys and girls...... No air shifted automatics,delay boxes,bullshit,ETC. Using all your hands and feet to drive this car. :)
I've always had a love affair with these small block high revving Ford engines. I loved them back in the day when these cars were new, and this one just kicks my ass. I could watch this all day.
the previous owners name is Alan Felong in michigan, hes a good friend of my dad. that car is a multiple time NHRA record holder. i have pics of that car at detroit dragway back in the 80s when we trailered the car there for Alan. my Dad, Alan, and my uncle Wayne Fitzpatrick were all buddies, all drag raced 4 speed 60s mustangs, previous to this car, Alan owned a black 68 fastback with a 351boss and a toploader. at that time my had a 69 mustang with a 351 boss and liberty top loader. my uncle still owns his 67 coupe he bought new in 67, its had many FEs and now SBF in it. its driven by my cousin, Joe Fitzpatrick.
@@bobhoffman5581 this car was originally from Georgia when my Dads freind Alan purchased the car in 85 or 86 i cant remember. the for sale add was in national dragster. at that time it held 4 NHRA records, all the stickers were on the windows. it had a hand painted name on the rear 1\4s that Alan removed using his bare hands and rubbing compound so he wouldnt damage the beautiful burnt orange metallic paint. Pat Flanagan sounds familiar, was the boss hoss 65 mustang his car??
Great old car. As a former ER physician and a super stock racer, I'd like to see Bobby wear a neck restraint and gloves. Even a 125 mph car can hurt you badly in a wreck if you have a mechanical failure......and fireproof gear is only good for 9 seconds of direct flame contact if you happen to experience a fire.......but, all in all, a great car to watch and hear.
Me too. The local thug had a ratty gold '55 Chevy with a 265 that he would wind the piss out of every time he pulled out onto the main road. Cheater slicks, scavenger pipes, no bumpers, that was the shit in 1964.
☑️ Yeah, and the next best thing was that he mentioned racing at our local tracks, Cecil County Dragway(northeast Md) and Maple Grove Raceway(southeastern Pa). The only way this video couldve been even better, was for him to have sang something like, "fly Eagles fly, on the road to victory"! That would be the trifecta of excellence! 🥰👍
Back in the day I watched a 65 fastback with a 289 and 4 speed and he always left about 8 to 9000 ram and it carried the wheels about two feet off the ground. The amazing thing is that as hard as he flogged that car I never saw it break and I was there most every weekend.
I love the 289. They are a great little engine. In high school I had a 66 Mustang with a 289 built by me with street dom intake Holly 650 double pumper and more cam then I needed. Had a top loader 4 speed 9" with 411. It was a little rocket ship and the sound that came out of those headers was music that would just make your heart pound. There were quite a few Trans-Am's that saw her little tail lights!!
SWEET STANG! LOVE THE 289, EVERYTHING I DROVE WAS POWERED BY A 289 OR 302. 73 MAVERICK ,67 COUGAR, 67 MUSTANG, 65 F100, 69 F100, 74 F100, 88 5.0. BY FAR MY FAVORITE.
Well they still ran restrictor plates when they made everybody go down to 390 CFM carburetors because they were still making too much horsepower and NASCAR try $750
You got that right John. I have lots of content you might like. Subscribe to my channel and watch all the interviews with various Stock and Super Stock racers.
PRO STOCK was an absolute blast to watch, "back in the day"...Butch Leal(my favorite), Bob Glidden, and 'The Professor' with his OLDS, etc. Yeah...been to the US Nationals many times, and the racing was tremendous !! SUPER STOCK cars are just unreal. I'm a Pontiac guy, by ownership of a 1970 GTO 4spd....but love Super STOCK cars of all makes. They are an absolute blast to watch.
I used to love Pro Stock back in the day when there were several makes and manufacturers. I don’t even watch the new Pro Camaro class. NHRA ruined drag racing over the past few years, don’t even watch it anymore.
@@nealivers7479 Hey Neal, I hear ya loud and clear. I miss the days of stick shift racing. I had the original Mr. Gasket V-gate, (that this guy now rows the modern version), in my Goats and FBs.
Ford's 289 was one of, if not THE best small block V8's ever produced! Sturdy and very reliable. That's why Carroll Shelby even stuck them in the GT40 with lots of success. The 427 of course dominated LeMans for 4 years straight. Poor Enzo...
OMG, An overall 1st gear ratio of over 18-1!! Talk about a buzz bomb. Glad to see the Jerico, plowed with the V-gate. Had the original Mr. Gasket back in the 70s. Great shifter...great times. Well done here.
Brings back memories of racing my 340 Duster in AHRA HA2 back in the 70s. Believe it or not it was lbs per cubic inches and the 289 Mustangs ran in my class! They were not very competitive in the auto class. Not enough torque for a good launch. We also had 400 cu in Pontiac GTOs and 350 Nova's. Great memories!! Love the Stock and Super Stock class racing!❤
1984 I got a one owner 1966 Ford fairlane with 70 thousand original miles 298 two barrel ugly car bench seat however that 289 was a sweet smooth reliable engine.
Back in the 70s in high school here in Southern California south orange county a friend had street mustang like this except he hsd Cleveland heads very fast it was maroon color no mags just the hub caps that look like chessy spoke rims lol but thats look he wanted understated. Another friend had a super clean red 65 ford falcon w a Ford Cobra speced 289! Dam that thing screamed torque thrust mags and slaper bars it was slightly lifted nothing crazy. I had 68 Fastback Torino GT 390 w a 428 Cobra Jet cam which i totaled huge bummer. I wasn't alone though, red Falcon friend never took it to Orange County International Raceway so no scatter shield one night street racing he missed a shift grenaded the fly wheel and pressure plate the shrapnel hamburgered pretty much everything under the dash as well as the dash, body work sheet metal, his ankles and last but not least killed the Cobra speced 289 motor it was the worst pressure plate explosion carnage id ever seen in person. Another friend took out 80 feet of chain link fence w a super clean orange 69 Roadrunner the car didn't survive. Lots of muscle csrs didn't survive back in the 60s and 70s thevreal bummer is today most could've been repaired but back then the cost to repair vs replace was to much so off to the junk yard.
Clutch explosions are scary as shit ! I was in a buddy's '66 GTO, and he was slamming the gears...the revs were "Taching Up", but the Goat was pulling like I thought it should, so I (luckily) pulled my feet up, just before pieces of bellhousing came thru the floor, hit the ceiling, and landed in the back seat. You could hear the piece of metal "hissing" it was so HOT. The explosion left a small "crater" in the street as well. Yup, I had a Lakewood scattershield on my 4spd 1970 GTO...my buddy, did not. We were both lucky to walk away with feet still attached.
Not a big Ford fan or a Mustang fan. But this thing is the shit. Lime to see small motors rev to the stars and make music. This car for what it has in regards to limitations working against it carb size, limit on heads and other stuff its still AWESOME. I was way big on the turbo V8 stuff for a long time. But now im back to purist N/A stuff. Oh and old school blower motors.
This is sort of old school drag theory and I love it! Small displacement and lots of revs. I can remember being a boy back in the 80's and going with my dad to the races. I seem to remember 2 speed poweglide setups with manual valve body, with the theory being you have so many revs you only need to shift once. But all of that is a faint memory. I do remember a car that belonged to a friend of my dad. A corvette with a de-stroked 327 (290-ish?) Again, faint memory from childhood but I remember a big tachometer with a red line set around 10K. The diff on that car looked like something out of a Mack truck.
My dad bought a 63 1/2 Fairlane new. Hipo 289. He pulked and blueprinted the motor . I can remember seeing the motor out as a kid. He raced it through 65 or so in Montana and then at all the small now closed tracks in California. He would drive it to the track put 8 inch slicks on put 513 gears in it , in cork the headers and shifted it between 9 and 10,000 ram. After out running one of carol Shelbys gt 350's on the street got invited to Shelbys . Carrol Shelby told him you are that guy with that fast Ford. He said nobody out runs my cars. Then he asked my dad if he wanted to ride in a real fast Ford and took him for a ride in his personal Cobra at Carrols facility.
The first 289 I built revved over 8000 rpm. Stock crank. Stock pistons. X code heads. Ohio George Montgomery worked the “x” code heads. Could I have put more into my “lil engine that could”? Absolutely. But, why? 1967 Mustang. Factory motor, numbers matching. 3 speed manual IIRC. Beast.
@@ScottKenny1978 I am aware of the fact that the Cobra Daytona did 425.... but what part of SHELBY do you not understand, lol? Nothing stock there. Webers, heads, cams, crank, etc. The only thing stock was the block. This car in the video had to be totally stock including the carb. Plus, the GT40 ran a 427, 351, and 302. In either case, the GT40 and Cobras were freaks.
I BELIEVE IN SUPERSTOCK! LONG LIVE SUPERSTOCK! I cut my mechanics teeth on that engine when I was 19 and in mechanic training. The 2bl 3 on the tree 289 in the 65 was my first tune up for pay. I breathed so much life back into that little engine he thought I was some kind of race mechanic wizard. That car got a good roil out of first gear and a good spin out of second. All I had to do is address all of the tune systems. I freshed and adjusted everything to factory spec which that little motor happily accepted and ran literally like new. And the car was already 15 years old in 1980. The 298 was the easiest motor I ever worked on to this day. I could literally rebuild one with my eyes closed. Square little mill. But YEAH! I believe in Superstock. That's where the fun really is.
I had a 1964 spoft coupe with the Challenger 289 2bbl wouldn't give you any nosebleeds but got you everywhere you needed to go. Also auto on the floor. Not my first car, a good one tho. An A code225 hp.1965 2+2 was my first.
It's a dying talent, I watch the manual classes at some of the cash days events when I get a chance, I raced with a stick for 12 years until I started making to much HP for my pocket to afford a clutch and Trans to match the Power, man I miss those days.
@@michaelwynne4346 Same here. Best i had was a crash box & a ram clutch. Those have their limits. Would love to row the gears in a Jerrico or Liberty tranny.
How can you not love this car. First off, a manual trans....who runs a manual trans? Second, no chebbie ls. LS motors are like assholes, everyone has one. Third the rear tires are big but not monsters. Unless you need a humongous tire, the large tire can actually slow the car down. Finally, one of the younger generation enjoying what us old farts always love- lots of rpm and a stick shift. Welcome to the real world!
I built a '66 289 for my 31 model A truck- pulls hard to 9grand but I set rev limit to 8500. Stock block,heads,crank,rods.ported stock heads w/crower parts,Edelbrock rpm, holley double pump. Custom ground solid Lazer cam. Crazy power!
My name is Thomas from Jackson Alabama I was raised old school my dad's mopars 440. Four-speed 383 4 speed you made just inspire me to build another four-speed car
Wow the power of gear ratios! I don't know about the rest of you guys but running a 10.59 at altitude with a 470cfm carb and roughly 289 ci is pretty dang impressive for sure!
Running 10.50-11 secs NA with just 289ci, and a 470 CFM carb, anybody would be like, there's no way. I mean I'm even shocked tbh /\ that really doesn't make sense 😆
Wow one awesome small block, you have to give the props to the 289 just a awesome motor. What a awesome 65 mustang, sounds so great. Love the video Evan, thanks for sharing.
nice video, Stock & Super Stock classes, The only organized NHRA drag racing segment I have any interest in with the exception of nostalgia Super Stock and the wonderful Southeastern Gasser Assoc.
"Fuck Yeah"! You are the man running a 289 rev at 8,000 rpm. I've been waiting to see a set up like this. 289 is one of Ford's best engines. A reason Shelby put this engine in his cars. If it came with 4 bolt mains, this engine would be stuffed in Chevys and Mopar. 😆
Nah we have small journal 283s. Ran one in a 1969 chevy nova, camel hump heads, Torker 2 intake, isky cam and a 650 double pumper (thing was built in the 70s) dipped into the high 12s
@@waddell7354 My first Camaro had a small journal 327--L60x14 Mohawk Super Mag 60's, with 4.11's in the diff. 15 mph, 3,500, in first gear. MAT the loud pedal, SHIFT--NOW! Had to, with that stiff gear out back. I used to put at least a car and a half hitting second, on almost every car I ran against. At LEAST 100 (street) races, and I WON at least 70... Rusted quarter panels, but that '67 RS beat a LOT of "pretty" cars; some had a lady passenger, and when I was running the right lane, more than a couple gave me a look, like "I'd rather be riding with you!" My then girlfriend (she was younger, and had a 11pm curfew, courtesy of "Dad!") wouldn't have liked that, and I respected her too much to try it! lol
My godness thats whats missing in my life that i need back Years ago i had a 71 comet setup close to yr friends mustang it had a maverick front clip so it had rhe best if bolth worlds in my opinion The comet tailights The maverick grille & bumper except 393 windsor w/mopar 833hemi shift with shortend input &adapter plate running a ford mccloud pp & a 10in mopar fine spline disc &6.00 Diff....what a feeling dumping the clutch of the 2step at 9.500 & pulling the handle to second while yr still looking at blue sky lol...untill youv had to manhandle those kind of beasts down the track not everyone gets all of the Dichotomie's like MANCARD,MANSHIFTED so 👉💪👍👍to the ladies who have driven the 2step launching highwinding front wheels in sky when shifting monsters of the dragstrip who what its like to get down the strip In one of these manual monsters or super stockers i speak of cuz its a feeling like no other ......it takes cohonay's to grab gears when yr looking at th sky.......boy i went of reminiscing lol....... 💕 Yr channel evan
Chevy, Pontiac, Plymouth, Mercury and now ford guy here. Love the 65 (Yah i know 64 1/2) to 68 Mustangs. They always gave me an itch for one and now i have a 65 Vert 4 speed in white skin and blue guts. Engines spinning over 6,000 make we sweat but Dang i love the song of a high flyer and popping wheelies too boot. Steep gears in that 9er and a strong Transmissions(down to the joints) in this toy is my thrill to have 👀.
I had a friend in high school with a white '65 coupe, 4-speed K-code (I think it was K-code 🤔) with intake, carb & headers. It ran pretty damn good to be a little 289.
Non-Shelby K-codes were and are extremely rare. In years of being an engine builder, enthusiast, and commited Ford 60-73 muscle car fan, I only saw one non-Shelby K-code engine. Came out of a rusted 65 GT coupe. And it was then swapped into a Pinto(!). The rest were plentiful by comparison - low, medium, high risers, SOHC's, Boss 302, 351, 9's, SCJ's.....
