Sale of Matt Farah’s Ford Mustang will Support Charity

Smoking Tire host is auctioning off wicked Fox Body Mustang, and partial proceeds will help out charity of buyer’s choice.

Matt Farah is best-known for being the founder and host of The Smoking Tire YouTube channel, but his black Fox Body Ford Mustang notchback has become almost as well-known. Farah built this car to be a road racing beast while also looking pretty badass, and he succeeded. The resulting car looks great and likely handles like it is on rails, and it is available for sale right now.

According to Road & Track, Farah listed his Ford Mustang on Bring-A-Trailer and as a unique twist, half of the selling price of this built Fox Body will go the charity of the buyer’s choice. There are currently seven days left in the bidding process and with the auction getting so much attention, the car being so solid and the charity aspect being included, the bidding has been hot and heavy early on.

Farah’s Custom Fox Body

The 1988 Ford Mustang LX shown here started its life as a California Highway Patrol car, serving as a police car from 1988 through 1994. Once Farah got ahold of it, he began transforming it into the road-handling beast shown here.

Farah modified the car in just about every way, creating what is likely one of the best road racing Fox Body Mustangs on the road today. Best of all, the majority of the build was done with Ford parts, along with some aftermarket support.

Unique Look

On the outside, Farah’s Mustang has widebody fender flares to make plenty of room for the forged HRE wheels measuring 18-inches by 10.5-inches at all four corners, all of which are wrapped in Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires. It also has a Saleen front air dam and black paint that was applied when the body work was done a few years back.

On the inside, this Fox Body has Recaro race buckets with unique fabric centers and matching fabric on the door panels. Farah has removed the rear seat, added a 6-point roll bar, installed all-new gauges and replaced the Ford steering wheel with a sporty Momo unit. Also, the car is equipped with Cool Shirt in-car driver cooling system, so if you are going to take it road racing, you will be kept cool on the track.

Performance Upgrades

This 1988 Ford Mustang is powered by a 302-cubic inch crate engine from Ford Performance that is mated to a 5-speed manual transmission. The engine makes around 270 horsepower at the wheels on 91-octane gasoline, but this car wasn’t built to be a high-powered muscle car. Farah installed the independent rear suspension from a 2004 Cobra, along with the brakes from that SVT Mustang and a full Bilstein suspension setup, making this 3,100-pound Fox Body a corner-carving machine.

Charity Benefit

As mentioned above, whoever makes the winning bid on Matt Farah’s 1998 Ford Mustang will get to pick a charity group that will receive half of the selling price. Right now, the winning price sits at $65,000, so if there are no other bids, the charity of the winner’s choice stands to get $32,500.

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Patrick Rall

"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.

"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.

"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.

"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.

"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.

"Being based on Detroit," says Rall, "I never miss the North American International Auto Show, the Woodward Dream Cruise and Roadkill Nights, along with spending plenty of time raising hell on Detroit's Woodward Avenue with the best muscle car crowd in the world.

Rall can be contacted at QuickMirada@Yahoo.com

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