The Ford Mustang is a popular car all over the world, and it is a damn good race car through and through. Racing series in a veritable alphabet soup of countries center their racing series around the Mustang. One such racing series is the V8 Masters in South Africa, which features Owen Ashley-built Mustang-based race cars powering 5.5 liter V8 engines. They’re fast, mean, and loud cars…and they make for a good video.
South Africa recently began holding its own annual hill climb race after the model of the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Called the Knysna Hill Climb, it’s a brief race up a hill…and we’ve got in car video from the V8 Masters car of Fabio Tarfini.
The Owen Ashley-built V8 Masters Mustangs look like low-slung Mustangs with a chopped roof. Under the hood is a 5.5 liter V8 making 435 horsepower backed by a 5-speed manual transmission. That should make for a quick climb up the hill!
It does, taking just 45.194 seconds to shoot up Knysna Hill, which started as a one-off race but was so popular that it became an annual event in the same vein as the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The hill climb is the core event, one of many, and watching this Mustang fly up the hill makes us want to go all the more. Maybe we’ll catch one of these V8 Masters races too.