Northern Raider Photos

Wheel fell off after 100 mph run in Spokane

Another view of a burnout 10-1/2" slicks

Chassis dyno, did it 3 separate occasions to tune car.

Race dress- slicks, skinnies, exhaust dumps

A Mustang with GM cars! Invited there by Camarro Club. Sunridge Mall

Stock, 3 days old, photo taken at Lieut.Governor's Mansion

Trophies from Spokane International Mustang Show: best of class, fastest Mustang and BEST OF SHOW!

Custom battery top fits Optima battery, made of solid aluminum

Piece on left not polished, piece on right is polished. It took 6 hours but it's only "okay", not perfect. More work to do.

Another custom plate to hide wires and tubes.

Chrome is a man's best friend, like diamonds to the ladies.

Amps early version without enclosing box

Amps, voltmeter and sub-surrounds light up with blue light

1000 watt sub woofers installed in front of amps

Visonek sub. All that chrome, why hide it?

Drag Racing

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

I raced the 1987 Mustang for about 5 years moving from the stock 15.7 seconds @ 87mph in the 1/4 mile to 12.3 @ 113 mph on a 3800 foot altitude track. I raced in a number of shoot-outs and did a a number of stints of bracket racing. My home track was Race City in Calgary, but I raced a lot at Edmonton racetrack, once in Medicine Hat and once in Spokane, WA.

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Show Car

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

I showed the car in a number of Mustang International Meets (USA and Canada), and many Show 'n Shines between drag-racing and when I got my other race car. I have participated in up to 15 car shows in one year.

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Engine Bay

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

It was unbelievable how rusty the engine got after only a year or two, considering I never drove the car in winter and rarely when it rained.Regardless, when it was time to detail the engine bay, the engine had to come out.I took the engine out 3 times JUST to detail it or around it.

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Sound System

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

It was my significant other who said "the car looks good but the sound is crap" (Don't you love it when your partner says things like that?) and I had Ford's "supreme sound" system! I upgraded to a 500 watt/15 speaker Alpine system which lasted about 5 years, then changed that out a couple years ago to what you see here- 2400 watt stereo system with 2-10" subs in the back and tweets and midrange in the front.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Northern Raider is the name given to my1987 Mustang Convertible by the editor of a Mustang Magazine that did a feature of the car. This wasmy show car and former race car. It has been featured in 6 magazines and is the winner of over 50 awards including two at the World of Wheels in 1996 and one in 2007. I retired it from racing when I built the 1982 Mustang. In summer I drove this car to work as many days as I could. It was NOT a trailer-queen!

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