Like other Mustang special-edition models, the Cobra Jet Mustang has a legacy of power, performance and victory behind it. On the 40th Anniversary of the Cobra Jet in 2008, Ford racing unveiled a special-edition Cobra Jet that lived up to the legend and won the NHRA Winternationals in its inaugural race. The 2010 Cobra Jet, [...]
Bill Elliott, working Hajek Motorsports and Ford Racing, announced today that he will attempt to break his 22-year-old NASCAR top speed record. Hajek Motorsports owner, Brent Hajek, said that he will work with Ford Racing on the company’s Hajek E-85 Mustang FR500C, which has been reconfigured to NASCAR specs. Elliott will attempt to break his own record [...]
Ford will only be making 50 units of the race-ready 2008 Ford Mustang FR500CJ. One of the units, signed by the legendary John Force, was auctioned off at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., for a total of $375,000. John Force was there on hand to say a few word about the Ford Mustang [...]
We saw the 2008 Ford Mustang FR500CJ briefly last month, but today Ford took the wraps off the race-ready Mustang at the 2008 SEMA Auto Show. Known simply as the Cobra Jet, it will join the Mustang FR500S, the Mustang FR500C and the Mustang FR500GT. The Cobra Jet is the drag racing version of the [...]
FoMoCo is working out the final kinks to release a limited-edition racing car inspired by the 1968 Cobra Jet Mustang. The Ford Mustang FR500CJ recently hit up the Michigan Milan Dragway showing off its skills. Power for the NHRA-legal drag racer comes from a 5.4L V8 used on the GT500 producing 428-hp. Ford says that [...]
