In 1999, as a young 19-year-old Marine, Jake Conant was driving by a local Dodge dealer and noticed a black
Dakota R/T pickup. “I thought it was the coolest truck I had ever seen, so I bought it,” Jake remembered. Not too long after, while on weekend leave, Jake was invited to the dragstrip by some friends; Cecil County Dragway in Maryland. He ran the truck down the strip and busted out a 14.50 elapsed time at 95mph, and right then and there, he was hooked!
The truck would get some mods over the next few years and would eventually hit the mid-thirteen second zone in the quar-ter-mile, but Jake was about to experience the next level in drag racing... While spending some time home in 2002, he had the opportunity to go for a ride in a new 2003 Mus-tang Cobra; “I was floored and immediately traded the Dako-ta for a brand new silver ’03 Cobra,” he said with a smile. The Cobra would be Jake’s daily driver for the next several years and he spent time in his parent’s garage adding parts whenever possible.
