The Cobra Jet, technically an FR500CJ, was priced at $69,900. So, late last year, Ford Racing reintroduced the Cobra Jet Mustang in a very limited run of 50, as a 2008 model, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the original Cobra Jet’s debut. By the early 1970s, though, factory interest in the horsepower party quickly wound down because of tougher emissions and safety standards, spiking insurance premiums, and the Arab oil embargo. From about 1963 through 1969, these drag-pack specials engaged in an ever escalating horsepower war of historic proportions. Each of the factories built cars made especially for drag racing-the Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt and 428 Cobra Jet Mustang, Chevrolet’s Z11 427, Pontiac’s Catalina with the “Swiss cheese” frame holes, the Hemi ’Cuda and Challenger from Mopar, and the COPO Camaro. Maybe we’re doing something that’ll get young people interested and involved in Sportsman racing again.”ĭrag-racing old-timers will recall that in the late 1960s, Detroit’s Big Four automakers ruled America’s quarter-miles. “It was great seeing a young couple, the kind you haven’t seen down in the Sportsman pits all that much in recent years, checking out the cars. “It was like one of those classic, old-time drag-racing poses, like Linda Vaughn in the 1960s,” says Jesse Kershaw from Ford Racing’s Performance Group. She sidled up next to a new Ford Mustang Cobra Jet drag car, arched her back, hand on hip, tilted her head and smiled with a little smirk while her male companion snapped a photo.
She was young, cute, built, and knew it-poured into tight-fitting jeans and an even tighter top.
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