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New Holland, Illinois' Blake Neeley has seemingly always found himself seeking thrills of all sorts.
Racing motorcross and 4-wheelers early on, Neeley later moved into the family melee that is demolition derby, which he thrashed, smashed, and
crashed in for 18 years. After returning home from deployment, the Army National Guardsman made the move to a small-tire street car and drag racing.
“I was just fed up with demolition derby,” Neeley explained. “Drag racing is a different type of enjoyment and money. With demolition derby, the investment in a car can be gone really quickly.
With racing, you see your efforts and they don’t just disappear suddenly.”
Originally campaigning F-body Chevys, Blake Neeley didn’t want to be “that guy” with yet another turbo LS Fox body, but in trying to achieve consistency with the power and performance level he was after, he felt he had no choice.
Neeley’s first foray into this arena came behind the wheel of a 2002 Chevy Camaro, a real street car that packed a 408ci LS engine and air condi tioning.
“Things went from very mild to very extreme in 4 years,” Nee ley said of the Camaro’s transfor mation under his ownership.” By the end of the year, it was gutted and built strictly for racing.”
Neeley competed in numerous small-tire and no-prep classes with the Camaro, as well as with a re placement one, but ultimately felt it was tough to get the torque-arm sus pension of the 4th-Gen F-body to be consistent.
“I would not have a Fox body be cause everyone had one,” Neeley told us. “I asked myself, ‘Do you want to be consistent, or constantly fight a chassis.’”
After two years with the F-body plat form, Neeley finally switched to a Foxbody Mustang.
Purchased out of Florida, the Mustang was a rolling chassis that Neeley put his fabrication skills to work on.
Paint work was completed by B&B Kustoms in St. Louis, Missouri, in a gold hue the exact mixture of which is be ing held close to the vest. The car retains its OEM steel roof and quarters with fiberglass doors, front nose and deck lid and carbon rear wing.
