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Guess How Long to Live in it and Win a New 2011 Stang!

Published by AMRick on June 15, 2010 in Contests. ( View Comments )

Live in it to Win - Guess the Time contest

Here’s a new, fun contest from AmericanMuscle: How long do you think someone can sit in a new Mustang and outlast three cabin mates in order to win that Mustang? Maybe weeks and weeks. Honestly, the twisted minds in AM’s contest department don’t care about that. What we want to know is how long it takes a person to get fed up with the others in the car, quit the contest, and leave the car. Now that takes guts.

Make a guess – but you only get one – and submit it via the form below. If your entry is the winner, you’ll receive a nice front end appearance prize consisting of new headlights, a billet grille, and chin spoiler for your own Mustang.

Details follow below…

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Coming Up: AM At NMRA Atco, NJ Event

Published by AMRick on May 11, 2010 in Events and General. ( View Comments )

This coming weekend (5/14 – 5/16), the NMRA Keystone Ford National Series brings their third event of the season to the Atco Raceway in New Jersey. AmericanMuscle will be there!

Our two sponsored NMRA drivers, Tim Matherly and Bart Tobener, will both be on hand for the competition, and AM will be videoing their qualifying runs. We’ll be hanging out during the day on Saturday, walking the vendor midway, and cheering on our own Karen Baum and Brick Spurio as they compete in the local true street classes.

“Bad Bart” Tobener has been drag racing since 1998, and is competing this season in the EFI Renegade class. The competition is incredibly tough, but after his amazing qualifying run earlier this year at Bradenton, Bart is confident that he’s going to be a points front-runner in his class all through the season.

Tim Matherly is the reigning 2009 NMRA Real Street Champion, having won the NMRA Real Street class at four different events in 2009. In June of ‘09, he set the then-top speed Real Street record of 146.050 at Atco in his MVPerformance Mustang. This year, Tim returns with a 2010 Mustang that is really race-styled and ready to challenge his prior record.

Here’s the schedule for Atco (courtesy of NMRA):

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And, the May Ride of the Month Winner is…

Published by AMStanger on May 1, 2010 in General and Ride of the Month. ( Closed )

Angela Leggett’s 2003 Dark Shadow V6 Mustang. Here are the details of Angela’s awesome ride.

Year: 2003

Model: V6 Mustang Coupe

Color: Dark Shadow

Wheel style & size: Cobra R 17X9

Comments: “I have no trophies and consider this Mustang a work in progress. I have just added the Eibach pro-line springs, struts, and shocks and it rides, drives, looks, and handles 100% better, best mod I could have done. I’m working on many more things as the money comes. I call this Mustang the Dark Horse because it is an under dog being a V6 and my hopes are to change that soon with a super charger and some power upgrades.”

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AM-Sponsored Muscle Shatters Speed Record

Published by AMRick on April 14, 2010 in Events and General. ( View Comments )

This past weekend, rookie driver Eric Swarr ventured onto a mile long WWII-vintage Army airbase strip in Maxton, NC with one goal in mind: set an East Coast Timing Association (ECTA) Blown Fuel Super Street land speed record. His ammunition? A 2006 Ford GT Supercar, owned by Bob Self and sponsored by AmericanMuscle and Swarr Automotive.

Nearly everyone is familiar with the concept of land speed records, and for the most part, when you hear about a really eye popping speed run, it’s coming from Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Here’s a little trivia factoid. The quest for land speed records actually started on the East Coast in the 1920’s and 30’s on the hard sands of Daytona Beach, Fl. When most speed trials started moving out West, a void was left on the East Coast. ECTA was formed to fill that void, and they selected an abandoned runway in Maxton, NC as the staging ground for speed record runs.

Saturday and early Sunday runs by Swarr were part of the ECTA rookie development program. He first had to make 125 MPH and 150 MPH runs on Saturday, to satisfy ECTA that he could safely pilot the vehicle. On Sunday, he made one last development run of 175 MPH, and then was given a single opportunity to open it up, and break 200 MPH. And open it up he did…

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And, the April Ride of the Month Winner is…

Published by AMStanger on April 2, 2010 in General and Ride of the Month. ( View Comments )

[drumroll; pass the envelope, please...oh, we're so excited we can barely contain ourselves...]

Paul Bledsoe’s dark blue 1988 Fox Body Mustang GT. Here’s the particulars of Paul’s very sweet ride:

Year: 1988

Model: 5.0L GT

Color: Dark Blue

Body style: Fastback

Comments: “This car is a junk yard purchase, fully restored, from empty shell to show car level, taking 4 years. It is a tribute to our son, Patrick, who died suddenly in 2000. His younger brother and I finished in 2006, what he started in 1999.”

Paul hails from Louisiana, and his ’stang recently nabbed a first place trophy in the Modified Class, 1964-1/2 to 2010 at the Mustang Club of America (MCA) National Show in Pensacola, Fl., along with a similar win at the 45th Mustang anniversary bash in Birmingham, Al. in 2009.

AM March Ride of the Month

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AM Exclusive First Look: A New Kind of “Muscle”

Published by AMRick on April 1, 2010 in General. ( View Comments )

The voicemail on my office phone was time stamped at 3:17AM, and the frantic message that followed was left in an almost unintelligible whimper:

“Dude. You are so not gonna to believe this. Check your email first thing in the morning.”

I could hear quiet sobbing in the background. “When my wife finds out about this, I. am. a. dead. man. She’ll have me listing my pony on Craig’s List before the day is out so she can do the down payment on this thing. Don’t ask me where I got this. Dude. I’m so upset I can’t even sleep.” ((click))

My interest piqued, I opened my email, looked at the attached image, and promptly fell out of my office chair. Immediately after picking myself up, I started working the phones. Here’s what I’ve been able to dig up so far:

After nearly two decades of focus groups, demographic research, and secret concept vehicle development, a hand-picked team of top designers and engineers were brought together in early 2004 at an abandoned Flint, Michigan auto plant. The team’s mission: Break the mold on family oriented transportation. They were instructed to spare no expense in development, and informed that they would not see the light of day until the finishing touches on a production-ready prototype were nailed down.

The result? For the soccer mom (or dad) who wants a little kick to their family ride, a new hoss is coming to town: the 2011 WindStang GT.

2011 WindStang GT