If
you ever saw Ronnie Sox
drive, it was something
you’d never forget. “Mr.
Four-Speed,” as he was called,
could work a shifter like Hendrix
worked a Stratocaster. Ronnie
came up through the ranks of professional drag racing before computers controlled the clutch, before
inline shifters made slamming
gears mistake-proof, and before
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technology became a co-driver
and drivers became steerers.
Moving from Mercury to Mopar
in the mid-1960s, Ronnie and
partner Buddy Martin hit their
stride, creating a Hemi-powered
dynasty that sports teams can
only dream of.
“We loved it when Sox and
Martin came to town,” an old
enthusiast told us. “The question
wasn’t, ‘Would they win?’ It was,
‘Who would they beat to win?’”
Having conquered the world
with Plymouth, it may have
seemed an odd leap that in 1990
Ronnie Sox’s signature hot rod
would be a Ford Mustang. But the
5.0 Mustang ruled the world back
then. Nothing else delivered so
much power for so little money.
Mustang was the center of the