The Dominator Mustang, built by JBA for a Road & Track shootout almost 20 years ago, is for sale (I'm not affiliated with it in any way). This is an interesting Fox-body Mustang and is worth a look, at least for historical puposes. Asking price: $41,000. Currently running with a 5.8 V-8 and T-56 (replacing the original 302, which used variously a Toploader 4-speed and a Doug Nash 5-speed). The car also uses SVO disc brakes (aka a mashup of Crown Vic cop car and Lincoln parts that had also been used on the Mustang SVO, Lincoln LSC, and Saleen Mustangs). The original Capri hatch (alledgedly more aerodynamic) has been replaced with a Mustang hatch and large wing.
I remember this car very well from my Mustang days in the eighties and early nineties. It was an inspiration for my own '91 GT build-up ( link to my 91 GT buildup page ), although I didn't take it anywhere near this far due to Ford's plans at the time to replace the Fox mustang with one built on the MN-12 platform itself. Ford then cancelled those plans and the SN-95 Mustang was the result. Arguably the Dominator's abilities were exceeded by the SVT variations of those.
After the initial top-speed runs, the car was re-equipped with a transplanted Thunderbird IRS. Unfortunately, no pictures of this are available, nor is a description of how the transplant was accomplished. This would have been interesting to know at the time, since it's something I very much wanted for my own '89 and '91 Mustangs.
Follow the link in the title of this post to the Team Dominator site for complete information, including photos and PDFs of the original press articles. This is interesting reading!
The sale is currently running on eBay and ends on February 26th: eBay (right-click to open in new window).
One more historical note. I find it amusing that JBA took care to highlight the benefits of it's special front lower crossmember brace. I visited JBA in 1991 and bought one of these, flying it back home in my suitcase and eagerly installing it on my '91 (I didn't even have to raise the car). The brace itself was originally invented by Ford, and was first seen on Ron Smaldone's Muystang SVO at Nelson Ledges when it ended up upside down and was photographed with the non-stock peice showing. That peice soon made it's way to the Saleen Mustangs, and then to JBA. The peice itself was a short peice of box steel tubing and a pair of bolts. You could literally and exactly duplicate it yourself with a visit to the local hardware store and 10 minutes of work - there wasn't anything more to it. But it did work, and it was a hot peice of "technology" in it's day.
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