After wrapping up 2006 with a Street Car Shootout win at Maryland’s Cecil County Dragway and finishing second in the track championship, Bradford decided to step up to heads-up Outlaw 10.5 racing this season. “I 
like that first-to-the-finish-line racing,” he says, but that meant another trip back to Drummond’s shop for the Mustang to again undergo major surgery over the winter as the firewall had to be restored to its original position, stock front frame rails had to be put back in place and a new 738 c.i., aluminum-block Ford with four stages of nitrous went under the hood. “It was a big expense to go backwards like that, but to be legal for the class you’ve got to have it, so that’s what we did.”
Still, despite its now hardcore racing pedigree, the mighty Mach I remains surprisingly street legal. “It still has tags and insurance on it and has all its lights, turn signals, all that stuff, the only thing missing are the windshield wipers. Twice a year we have a real big car cruise here at Ocean City, so I always take it down there. It’s actually not a bad car to drive around in,” Bradford claims.
