No helmets no rolls bars , the good old days of racing .Never get away with it now. Use to love these races.
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Carryfast should put his old clunker in there, he fancies himself against the likes of Peter Brock. 
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AI designed a new 2025 Ford Mustang fastback, what say you?
Didn’t the MGB lose chrome bumpers due to the yanks about 50 years ago?
Looks like a pretty motor, that is probably quite beaten down the list of priorities these days with safety and fuel economy considerations.
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If it’s ‘new’ for 2025 it obviously can’t/won’t be a 289 small block pushrod.Let alone the 427 that the big block should have had instead of 390 and 428.
I think Rousch has done an electric conversion with a six speed manual.Might as well go modern.
There’s just something about the mustang that is iconic, not mad about the colour though
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The 289 on the rego plate is a tribute to the largest available engine in the original car. Big blocks were not an option on MY 64½ or 65 Mustangs.
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Ironically the 427 wasn’t an option on the Mustang at all.
Unlike the contemporary Galaxie.Tribute indeed.
Who said it was? You are the only one to have mentioned that irrelevant motor.
So what is the relevance, then?
The point was that the 289 Mustang isn’t worth such a ‘tribute’ v the 427 Galaxie.
The 289 motor was far better suited to a Zodiac and the AC Cobra and Sunbeam Tiger limited to the European market.
Irrelevant indeed.
Most definitely irrelevant indeed. The car was never supplied with a big block, Detroit two stroke, or Briggs and Stratton engine.
It was supplies with a choice of two six and two eight cylinder engine, the 289 being the halo engine, that is what the 289 is referring to.
Everyone else gets it but you. 
The Halo engines for the Mustang were actually the later small block 302 and big block 390, 428 and 429.Unfortunately Ford chose not to fit the 427 in it at any point in its development.
The 289 iwas rightly put in Zodiacs by after market tuners and in small sports cars like the AC Ace and Sunbeam Tiger here.Because of its packaging v power combination replacing 4 and 6 cylinder motors.
Weird how Ford thought that the Mustang was better offered with a less than 5 litre V8, let alone a 6 cylinder motor, than the 427 in that regard.
The first were definitely not the Halo Mustangs.Boss 302 and 429 and to a lesser extent 428, were, at least as I remember it.The 427 ‘would’ have been the real Boss.
The 289 is a Windsor block. At the time of the Mustang’s release that was the greatest capacity offered. The Windsor was also produced in 221 and 260³" displacements. Sometime in the late '60s the block height was increased to accommodate displacements of 302 and 351³" displacements.
This engine was superceded by the Cleveland block, offered in 302 and 351³" displacements.
The Cleveland is physically larger than the Windsor engine. A Windsor engine can be retrofitted into a two series Volvo, with ease whereas a Cleveland cannot.
Are you now able to see why the 289 was the halo engine, or are you going to emphatically refuse to be wrong, in contradiction to proof.
The 427 was available in the Galaxie before the Mustangs’s release.There was only one ‘Halo’ engine and Ford then and the 289 Mustang obviously wasn’t it.Which leaves the question of 429 v 427.
Le Mans and NASCAR results show which one of them was the Halo Ford engine.The 427 side oiler is an iconic deserved legend .Why Ford never built the Mustang around it is a mystery.While in the absence of that the ‘new’ concept car would have been far more credible carrying the 429 badge not the Euro sized 289.
Wow, talk about obtuse.
I don’t think it’s obtuse to suggest that the compromised 289 Mustang was way overrated in the day with the 427 Galaxie already established and certainly not worth celebrating with a new tribute act.Especially in a world devoid of pushrod Ford V8’s at least since the OHC 4.6 replaced the 302.
But you obviously are. The Mustang was one of Ford’s most successful cars, only beaten by the F100.
The original Mustang was built on the same platform as the Falcon. Neither car had the strength or space to accommodate a big block, ergo 289 was the biggest engine able to be fitted to the original Mestang. That makes the 289 the halo engine in the original offering.
Sorry, it can’t be made any simpler for you.
Strewth, yon Carryfast fella knows some stuff. ‘The fount of all knowledge’
Us older lads (mere plebs in the greater scheme of things) are indeed indebted to him/her for imparting his superior knowledge to us. We are humbled.
Keep it coming matey. 
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Just pointing out that they saved the best and most iconic Mustang until last.The first didn’t cut it and not worth a tribute act.
But the inconvenient fact is that Ford unarguably realised that the ‘Mustang’ wasn’t going to continue to be sustainable as a saleable product limited to 302 let alone 289 power within around 3 years from the start of production.Ultimately ending up at 429 in an attempt to stay with big block GM competition in the form of Chevelle and even in the event Camaro and we know Corvette.
Or for that matter stuff like the MOPAR 426 Hemi Challenger and Dart.Among lesser 383, 426 Wedge and 393.The latter two alone being way more than a 390 Mustang could even get close to.
You’d like to think you know a bit about cars.About as much as you know about trucks and driving them.