The second winner of six possible winners in Ford’s “the ‘10 unleashed” dream Mustang contest was revealed to be a fresh faced, fresh-out-of-high-school, young man from Orlando, Florida area. Derrik Murrell recently graduated from Lake Mary high School north of Orlando where he had dreams of racing his auto shop teach for “pinks”.

Like every high school gear head’s dream, Murrell hoped that Ford would help him out. The difference being that Murrell actually filled out the contest entry at Ford’s website and Ford chose his dream to become a reality. Of course, just being given the chance to slide behind the wheel doesn’t mean that you’re going to win the race! Ford sent a couple of stock 2010 Mustang GT’s to Livernois Motorsports in Detroit for special outfitting. Livernois basically turned both of the Stock GT’s into Ford’s CobraJet drag racers with parts from Ford Racing including stuffing a crate 5..4 Liter “aluminator” aluminum engine, in full race trim, into the front of both ponys. You may recall (or you may not have heard if you didn’t read our previous blog) that Ford has not yet released (or even made!) the 2010 Mustang Cobrajet yet. So you are left to “build it yourself”.

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Ford 2009 Mustang Cobra Jet Drag Racer

Sema (Specialty Equipment Market Association) has announced that FORD will be the official car manufacturer of the  2009 SEMA show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The SEMA show has grown significantly over the past decade with the rise in popularity of such automotive customizers (and their television shows) as

Chip Foose 2009 Mustang Convertible

Chip Foose and the late Boyd Coddington. SEMA is a trade show for industry professionals to have the opportunity to either show off their product lines, or for retailers/buyers to make purchases and at least contacts for the coming year. It is not open to the public. Last year was the first time I got to visit and I regretted only having two of the four days SEMA ran to cover the event. Sema is held at the Las Vegas Convention center, and let me tell you that place covers a lot of acreage! (more…)