OCTOBER 2021 RPM MAGAZINE TEASER

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.............................................................. CHRIS BIRO editor@rpmmag.com V.P. MARKETING/CUSTOMER RELATIONS.................. TRISH BIRO trish@rpmmag.com EVENT MEDIA.................................................. events@rpmmag.com EVENT SUBSCRIPTIONS COORDINATOR........... SHERRIE WEBER sherrie@rpmmag.com ART DIRECTOR............................................................

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Total Overview of Ed Brown’s 2016 Ford Super Cobra Jet Mustang

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Watch Rob Meisch’s Turbo LX Mustang

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Often Imitated, Never Duplicated—For 22 STRAIGHT YEARS RPM Magazine has been the ORIGINAL Voice Of Wild Street Machines and Extreme Drag Cars WORLDWIDE! Don’t Settle For Less! We DELIVER Insane Fast Cars and Bring You NO POLITICS... JUST ACTION! Your ONLY “Real Time” “Real World” Car Mag...PERIOD!

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8 Rob Meisch will take his 7-second Mustang to the grave with him!

Moore Power! .......................................................... 26

Chris Moore shifts his boosted Camaro to 7-second ETs, then goes out for ice cream!

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46 This LS boosted Vega is cocked, locked and ready to rock!

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Fans of the Yellow Bullet Nationals were treated to another hard hitting, straight shooting competition, with the much anticipated “Fall Edition” on Labour Day Weekend.

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Story: George Pich Photos: Randy Pugh

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That’s right, we said “7-second Mustang”!

And yes, it still packs a Ford small block between the frame rails, and one more thing, it is still street driven! Sounds like the perfect Fox Body build.

Rob Meisch decided in the fall of 1993 that he wanted to buy a new car. Of course the impact of Ford’s 1979 to 1993 Mustang platform, in particular the addition of the roller 5.0L for ’85 and up, had a solid grip on performance enthusiasts everywhere. What else could you buy for under 20 grand that was so much fun to drive and would The slick chameleon paint work with flames was done way back in 1996, yet still looks fresh. A cowl hood is the only non-Ford panel on the car, and headlight covers (very big in the 1990s) are painted to match, too.

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The interior also retains its stock look with the factory dash and trim panels. A custom fabricated cage, race seats with RJS harnesses, analogue gauges, including the big-face Monster Tach, along with a TCI shifter and electronics mounted on the custom topped console have been installed to help Rob reach those 7-second ETs, and do so safely.

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See the LX in action!

pound out 14-second ETs at will on any given Friday night, not to mention dust most anything else light to light.

Meisch opted for the 1993 over the newly released 1994 body style and wanted something fairly specific, “I wanted a black with black interior combination, but with the 1979 to 93 body style production ending, at that time of year there was only a white notchback and a red GT available. Not being crazy about either color I was giving up and was going 14

to buy an F150 instead.” So that’s it, Rob had thrown in the towel and was opting out of the Fox Body craze, that is until he got a call from his sales rep. “My sales guy called me that weekend and said that someone ordered a black LX and canceled the order. I told him I’d take it! Then he called again and said it had a black interior, I told him again that I definitely wanted it.” After a little digging, Rob came to find out that it was actually the last black with black interior 5-speed ’93 sold in Ohio. The next

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It was actually the last black with black interior 5-speed ’93 sold in Ohio... weekend Meisch was in the driver seat and we don’t have to tell you what happened from there. Just like so many others, he loved it!

Unfortunately by that time the Ohio winter was coming and the car went into storage, but not before Rob could bang some gears and wear some meat off those

Gatorback tires.

When spring hit, Rob hit the dragstrip for the first time, entering the Stock class at Norwalk Raceway Park. He showed up at 7AM as the cars piled in and, of course, there were more Fox Body Mustangs than you could count, but by 6AM the next day Meisch