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BAKIN' CANADIAN
The Markhams' Windsor-Grown, Windsor-Powered, Pro Stang II.
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Greg Markham's recipe for this clean, practical Pro Street Mustang II is simple. First he bought a stock '78 model, drove it daily for a year to recoup his investment, then convinced his wife, Linda, that she could own the neatest grocery-getter in their hometown of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. All she had to do was finance the operation while he and brother-in-law Mike Sales handled the construction, with Bear's Performance's assistance for the chassis work.
The biggest modification involved tucking a pair of Cragar SST-mounted 31x18.5-15 Mickeys under the lengthened rear wheelwells. A subframe was built with 1 1/2 x 3-inch tubing onto which the stock leaf springs were relocated to hand a 44-inch-wide, 9-inch Ford rear. Traction bars optimize the torque fed to the Strange axles by the 3.70 Richmond gears. The torque machine itself is a '68-vintage 302 Windsor V-8. The block was deburred, decked, and fitted with a main bearing support kit in preparation for a polished crank and Badger .040-over pistons on Boss rods. The Block was then topped with ported and polished 351W heads featuring 1.94- and 1.6-inch Chevy valves bumped by a Crane camshaft and TRW rockers. A Melling pump housed by a Moroso pan provides the lubrication, while fuel delivery comes from a pair of Holley 390s bolted atop a Weiand tunnel-ram manifold. Bent to clear the stock power steering, the homemade headers wrap around a Mike Dresser-prepped C6 automatic transmission.
Before fitting new black carpeting and Jaz bucket seats, Greg installed an eight-point roll bar and relocated the battery to the trun, which still sports plenty of space for groceries. When Linda tells Greg she's taking the Mustang on a grocery run, you can bet she's got this white-hot Canadian bakin' 'n' shakin'.
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