"FACTORY OUTLAWS" Dick Brannon vs. Phil Bonner.... Drag Racing Art

Limited-Edition Print of 350 ( 13x19) print Signed and numbered by the Artist. In 1965, Ford won the  "Manufacture Of the Year" award, as their new SOHC 427 was a dominating powerplant in all the forms of motorsports. I find these two Fords, one of the more interesting stories in the history of the altered wheelbase FX match racers!              In 1965, the Automotive Manufactures wanted to get heavily involved in Drag Racing. Chrysler and Ford were going to go at head to head, with one small problem...           NHRA mandated, that the new Factory Experimental (FX) cars, could have no more then a 2% wheelbase alteration, this was carried out by Ford, and their new Mustangs. However, the 2% rule was passed an enacted, only after Chrysler had already built a fleet a radically altered wheelbase Coronets, and Fury's.  The new FX Mustangs were no competition for the radical Chryslers; so Ford put-out a press release announcing that their FX Stangs would not be allowed to com