What does it take to create a racing program these days? How about a dream and a nearly endless supply of
inexpensive, long-wearing donor cars?
Brett Madsen, an SCCA autocross national champ with a pair of high-output Mustangs in the stable, came up with Spec P71, a Southern California time attack series for decommissioned Ford police cruisers and similar sedans.
These Ford sedans are basically big, comfortable, long-wearing Miatas, he explains. “It’s slow, it body rolls, but good God is it fun at the limit and fun to compete with,” he says of his personal ex-cop car. “It’s also the most reliable of the three cars that I own–120,000 miles on it, and I got it with 85,000. A lot of those miles were track miles, and I haven’t had to touch anything on the engine at all. It just keeps chugging along like it’s nobody’s business.”
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