Ten years ago, there were hardly any Mustangs racing in the Formula Drift series, despite their excellent credentials. These days of course, things are different what with 5.0 Mustang driver Vaughn Gittin Jr. taking home the 2010 Formula Drift championship. Alas, whole generations of Mustangs have been left out of the drifting fun, including the venerable Fox-body, so we very rarely ever see these burning rubber anywhere but the drag strip.
Then again, there is Yves Faber, a European drifter with a taste for old Fox-body Mustangs. Speedhunters came across this video of him tearing uphill at the Eschdorf hill climb. This Fox was meant to drift.
We can’t quite put our finger on it, but for some reason, but watching a dropped-low Fox-body shred tires around corners just feels….right. Faber comes from Luxembourg, and he has taken this little Fox to a new level with a 6.1 liter stroker engine that cranks out 450 horsepower and over 500 ft-lbs of torque through a 5-speed Tremec transmission. But it still manages to come in at just under 3,000 pounds, as all racers know weight is the enemy of speed.
And man can this guy drive. He’s sort of like the Gittin of Europe, only rocking it old school cool. The engine was built by a German outfit called Redline, and as you might imagine this Fox is laden with safety equipment and fancy suspension features to help it move swiftly around those corners. It’s all very clean though, and makes us wish drifting (as a sport) had come to America two decades ago. Then again, that won’t stop us from doing it ourselves.