Street Racing Articles - Page 6

SuddenDeath · #51 12-09-2011, 01:30 AM

This is the engine as I saw it in 1995. The twin turbos were done by Jack Roush in 1980/81 not long before Ruggirello sold it. From what I've read, it was lifting the front end under boost. I don't know if the car ever made a full pass under boost. It had no electronics, waste gates, nothing.

SuddenDeath · #52 12-09-2011, 01:42 AM

This is the engine shortly before I took the car apart for paint/body work. It does still have the original 505" stroked 460 that Roush built for it years ago.

4onthefloor · #53 12-09-2011, 02:34 AM

I think this is the article you wanted...It was in Hi-Performace Cars-July 1970 issue

**YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY** · #54 12-09-2011, 02:34 AM

Wow!!

SuddenDeath · #55 12-09-2011, 03:28 AM

Cool stuff!

**flyingn** · #56 12-09-2011, 04:07 AM

This is how I saw it about 4 years ago at a car show in English creek nj.. What part of Jersey did you find it in? English creek is not to far outside Atlantic City

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SuddenDeath</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Tenney..I'll have to register on that forum and talk to Eric Shiffer, as it seems he is a wealth of information on these cars!

Back to the Ruggirello Mustang II...I had searched for this car for years and finally located it in a storage lot in New Jersey. I saw it once before at Gainesville Raceway here in Florida for sale in 1995, but it got away not to be seen again.

It appears it left Detroit for Florida back in 1981, then left Florida for Indiana around 1995, then New Jersey in 1997. However, I have not spoken to anyone who actually "owned" it or was close to someone who did yet.

I got the car in January 2010 and have been restoring it since. Currently doing paint/body work which should finish next month. I spent months just getting the car safe to start/run/drive again after many years of neglect and poorly done modifications to the rear suspension.

This is how the car looked when I found it. Photo taken in the NJ storage lot. I'm sure hoping Mr. Rifkin might be able to shed some light on it.

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SuddenDeath · #57 12-09-2011, 11:49 AM

I got it from a guy in Sicklerville, NJ. Looked to have spent years outside in the weather, paint peeling, tires dry rotted, all aluminum oxidized, etc.

whitetop · #58 12-09-2011, 01:46 PM

Are you going to replicate the mismatched silver paint?? LOL

**Dave Rifkin** · #59 12-09-2011, 02:00 PM

Tom thank you for taking the time to return this car back to it's original state. I remember reading the articles about that car when it was first built and fell in love with it.
Imagine how I felt when I saw it years ago for sale at the Atlantic City auction in such horrible shape. I guess it sold during the auction and I lost track of the car until a year or so later when I saw it parked in front of a freight service company on Delilah Road in Egg Harbor Township, NJ with a for sale sign in the window. (I can get the name / number of that company for you if you'd like to try and contact someone there)

Keep the pictures coming of the project; looks great so far.

**Fast67VelleN2O** · #60 12-09-2011, 05:08 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SuddenDeath</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I got it from a guy in Sicklerville, NJ. Looked to have spent years outside in the weather, paint peeling, tires dry rotted, all aluminum oxidized, etc. </div></div>

Wow! Thats one town over from me and I have never seen that car before!

-Matt

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