asked:
– What in heaven’s name have you done to it!!?
The Quarter Horse
He told them but also explained what he wanted to do with 1965 coming up. He said Chrysler’s Hemi machines would probably
sweep the track with everything next year and that he wanted to build a Mustang like this, but even better, with a plastic body and tube chassie to meet the competition. He hoped that Ford would, just as with the Thunderbolts, build a hundred pieces and he also had the name ready: Quarter Horse. (America’s most common breed type western horse, agile and
muscular). Ford’s racing manager Jacque Passino took the concept and went.
Ron was overjoyed. He sauntered home and waited in the winter. Christmas came, the New Year came, it became spring and Ron knew that
he had to start booking the racing season. He he had to start booking the racing season. He went out with him showing the new concept car in May 1965.
1965.
went out with him showing the new concept car in May 1965.
In April 1965 Ford announced that they did not like the fiberglass concept. Ford also had waited so long with the announcement that Ron’s racing season and the commitment was shattered. He stood without a car with three weeks to the first planned drag race in Gary, Indiana. He had also promised to show up on the Memorial Day 1965
which took place on 31st May.
Now he founded, together with his friend Chuck Vesely, an utopian, crazy project. He tore loose a car from Ford. Consider that this was when the Mustangs were hot hottest and newest new. The factories could not produce Mustangs with the demand.