Wrecked Fox-Body Mustang Resurrected On "Fastest Cars in the Dirty South"
This beast crashed and burned on its first pass, and Team 256 gets it back on the dragstrip.
Eric Malone and Team 256 are back for the second season of Fastest Cars in the Dirty South! It's been a rough year for Muscle Shoals' preeminent grudge racing team. Track closures due to the pandemic mean half the racing season has gone by with no racing to speak of, but worse, Britt Berryhill spun and wrecked at the finish line on his first pass in his freshly built 1989 Fox-body Mustang.
"The Bull," Britt Berryhill's 1989 Ford Mustang LX, was set to live up to its name with the 645-cubic-inch Ford big-block topped by a Gary Williams 1600 Dominator carburetor and a two-stage Nitrous Express kit. Hefty!
With its Bullet .980-inch lift solid-roller cam, Trick Flow single-plane intake and "A" heads, Maximizer 5 progressive controller, 275-series Pro Mickey Thompson drag radials, PTC Powerglide transmission and torque converter, and a Quick Performance 9-inch spooler with 4.10s and 35-spline axles, Team 256 expected this bullish Fox-body to charge down the eighth-mile in the mid-4-second range. But the best laid plans have a way of coming undone.
(photo credit: Discovery)
