Fun Ford Weekend - Norwalk Ohio - The Buckeye Beating

The Nostalgia Ford bracket class was fun to watch. Larry Kortkamp rowed the gears in his 427-powered Galaxie wagon to the win in the final round.

The winners from Street Ford, Quick Ford, Fast Ford, Nostalgia Ford and the Quick 16 were paired up (random pairing) for the King Ford challenge.

A new '05 Mustang was at stake, and in the run-off, Doug Baker of Newark, Ohio, became the 2005, FFW Norwalk King Ford winner. Simply winning Quick Ford was a challenge in and of itself, as the bracket classes were made up of over 400 cars.

Nick Yarber graciously accepted his MM&FF True Street award for First Place.

Jeff Zuccarell's '03 Cobra snagged the MM&FF Editor's Choice Award in True Street...

He narrowly missed grabbing the low-11-second prize, too, with an 11.22-second average.

Damon Dais finished Sixth with a 9.98 average. Talk about tough competition. We liked the look of this clean '79 pace car, and the fact that it averaged 9s was even cooler.

Patty Goodman of Pittsburgh averaged 10.79 seconds to finish Eighth in True Street with her '95 Cobra.

V-6 Mustangs take a lot of heat from most Mustang fanatics, but we felt Chris Niebauer's '05 model was quite respectable, having dusted some 34 other competitors with its nitrous-injected 13.03 average.

George Conrad II of Berlin Heights, Ohio, took home the MM&FF Early-Model Editor's Choice award for his baby blue '70 Shelby GT500.

We couldn't pass up photographing Ron Zeigler's ultra-clean '86 Mercury Capri, which took home the MM&FF Late-Model Editor's Choice award.