Drag racing has a way of changing the way your brain is wired. Once you’re hooked on the sport, you’ll do whatever you can to find ways to go faster at the track. Logan Ferneau was raised in the church of Mopar, fell in love with drag racing, and has built an awesome 1972 Duster.
Mopar aficionados are some of the most loyal car enthusiasts on the planet. Logan’s father was into cars, specifically Mopars, and that of course rubbed off on him. The family went to car shows, the Mopar Nationals, and Monster Mopar Weekend. All of these activities just pushed him further into the Mopar camp.
Of course, Logan had to get his own Mopar to wrench on, and that led him to the race track.
“As I got older, I started getting into the pro street cars, and in high school, I started working on a ‘73 Plymouth Satellite. It was actually a car my Dad had sitting around, and it needed a lot of work. I got it running shortly after graduating from high school. After graduation, I built my first engine, it was a 500” big-block wedge. The racing addiction started after I took the Satellite to a Friday test-n-tune at our local track. Ever since that night, I was hooked,” Logan says.
The Satellite went through numerous combinations as Logan’s quest for speed grew. A boosted combination was created with an F2 ProCharger after Logan swapped the engine’s internals into an aluminum block. Logan continued to run the Satellite at test-n-tune events, along with some fun on the streets from time to time.
Logan went to a Street Car Takeover event in 2016, and got to experience small tire racing for the first time. This was life-changing, and Logan just had to get in on the fun. Logan knew the Satellite was just too big of a car to be successful at small tire racing, and this is where the story of the Duster begins.
“The Duster had been in the area for quite some time. It had been bought and sold several times over the years. I knew the current owner, and I also knew he wasn’t doing anything with it, so I asked him if he wanted to sell it. I ended up purchasing the car for just $900. I started working on the car right away. I pulled the engine and drivetrain out of my Satellite to use in the Duster. I was able to get the car put together and ready to do some racing towards the end of the 2016 season,” Logan explains.
Logan built the 25.5 roll cage, did all the fab work, and even painted the car in his shop Ferneau Performance Solutions. A STR Chassis…
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