Fun Ford Weekend - Horsepower on the Hillside

Winner The Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords Editor's Choice award went to the True Street winner, Richard Markland of Elizabethtown, Tennessee. Markland's LX uses a fuel-injected 408ci Windsor for motivation with an NOS single-stage nitrous oxide system to really wake it up. The '87 Stang ran a 9.46, a 9.45, and a 9.47 to squeak past Jacky McCarty for the win.

Winner Tom Conrad Jr. has been racking up numerous wins in many Fun Ford classes. Here in the Superchips Street Stang final, he broke out against Powell, Tennessee, resident Nick Lucas.

Winner Since changing the class to include four- and six-cylinder engines, Fun Ford has been getting all kinds of interesting entries into Bama Chips Four-Six Frenzy. Chris Parisi of Jacksonville, Florida, took the win with his V-6-powered F-150 when Joshua Wells tripped the red light in the final round.

Winner Bob Cochran's 429ci-powered '48 pickup certainly stands out in JDM Engineering Tough Truck. Maybe that's what caught Kenny Carr off guard when he lined up against Cochran in the final. Cochran took the win thanks to a better reaction time.

Winner Mod Motor champ Robert Hindman (left) has been at the helm of his modular-powered '87 Mustang GT this year, and secured the SHM ModComp win after going five rounds in the 41-car field to defeat the '74 Mustang II of John Pickering.

Winner Known for using rental cars to compete at Fun Ford events across the country, S.D. Wheeler of Crosby, Texas, cracked the wallet wide open and sprung for a Hertz Shelby GT-H Pony in Bristol. The rental evidently liked being raced as S.D. went three rounds in Ford Racing Ultra Stang, defeating Tom Conrad Jr. in the finals for the win.

Winner Former Street Warrior champion Jeremy Martorella had the UPR Cobra back in Borla S/W action, taking the number-one qualifier spot from John Scaro. Scaro took out Kenny Gallman in Round 1, while Martorella enjoyed the bye run. In the final, Scaro was quicker off the bulb, but the Glidden-powered UPR machine edged past him for the win.

Winner Ripley, Mississippi's Tony Atkins was low man on the qualifying ladder in BFGoodrich Drag Radial, and the turbocharged 358ci engine in his '03 Cobra-bodied hot rod took him past Jamie Sarver in Round 1 and pushed past points leader Hale Camerman in the final for the win.