The 2000 Cobra R, only 300 in existence, race ready from the factory. As a matter of fact you couldn’t purchase one of these bad boys unless you had an SCCA license. Ford wanted to make sure that its Super Mustang made it in the hands of capable track runners and not hyperbaric chamber hording collectors. These horses were designed to run and run hard indeed.

Fitted with an engine that later gave way to development of the Ford GT, the one introduced during Super Bowl XXXVIII, you know which one, Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl. Anyway, it was a 5.4 liter 32 valve beast, making 385 hp and 385 lbs. torque. This car was fitted with a custom Bassani off road pipe, hardly muffled by three Borla mufflers. Putting down that power came via a T-56 six speed tranny, giving this pony 4.8 second blasts to 60 mph. Certainly Corvette owners never saw this Mustang coming, by the time they did, it was courtesy of dual side pipe exhausts. Something else that has yet to be produced again in modern Mustangs, a 1.01 G skid pad (anybody seen my fillings).

What this $55,000 race car didn’t come with is a radio, air conditioning, rear seats and most of the sound deadening material, Baritone anyone? This machine is raw, evoking visceral emotional response; just listen to this animal making laps on the video provided. One day, oh yes, one day, some dot.com race geek is going to collapse over a mocha caramel macchiato, and I am going to be there at the auction of his car.