To promote the charity Brakes for Brett and have some fun, we located this 1984 Mustang GT350 to enter the Grass Roots Motor Sports $2005 Challenge. Why raise money for Brakes for Brett ? Because a father who lost his son and a best friend who was at the wheel are turning a tragedy into an opportunity. An opportunity to save lives, to promote the safe enjoyment of this wacky passion for cars, and to set an example for the young street racer crowd. Once you go track, you never go back!
This was our first attempt at a Brakes for Brett car, we wanted to prep it for the Grassroots Motorsports 2005 Challenge, and well...
...it needed a little more work than we had first anticipated...
This was all supposed to be a simple assembly project with all the right pieces present and accounted for...can't you see them all?
The good news is, that we have two of 2.3L turbo engines....
The bad news is, this is the one that is supposed to have gone into the car....
The guy helping me with the mechanicals ended up in and out of physical therapy for a bad knee and underwent knee surgery the week we were supposed to race.
I had been scrambling to gather sponsors for the car and pledges for Brakes for Brett. The idea was simple, take on pledges just like one would for a walkathon. Well, we gathered about $3000 in pledges, but had no car, right up to the day before the race...What to do? That is for a different entry!
