Many of us don’t realize it but the Mustang is an immensely popular car in places other than the USA, in fact a large percentage of Mustang car clubs are located outside this country. Thomas Hauge, from Norway grew up in a gearhead family. His dad drag raced and thus Hauge spent a lot of time in the pits at the drag strip when he was a kid.

It was after a ride in his dad’s BOSS 429, that Hauge new he wanted a manual transmission equipped Mustang someday. That ambition would come true at the age of 14. A neighbor was restoring a Mustang for his own son, and had bought a second car as a donor. Hauge bought the wrecked ’65 coupe as a project, intending to repair it and get it on the road in time to get his driver’s license.

Flash forward to 13 years later, Hauge, now 27 still has his ’65 Mustang, which was originally imported to Norway new in 1965. Through this season thee car sported a 289, and a toploader four-speed transmission. Hauge has completely repaired and restored the car to drivable condition, but the type of driving he’s doing with it is something we doubt that neighbor would have imagined when he sold the car to young Hauge 13 years ago.

Hauge regularly drag races the car, and lately he has been spending some time getting the car up to street legal standards as well. The car has run a best of 12.50 in the quarter-mile, and plans are in the works for a BOSS 363 engine build and a new Jerico four-speed to really get the car moving down the track.

Hauge also says he’d someday like to get the car over to the USA and take part in a NMRA event, just to mix it up with other Mustangs and take in all the racing action. Maybe someday, but for now it’s a schedule of drag racing in Norway. You can follow Thomas Hauge and his endeavors on his Facebook page.