Video: Racing A Ford Fairlane On The Nurburgring

American muscle cars aren’t just popular in America. Across the Atlantic Ocean, many European car enthusiasts pine over our abundance of big, powerful cars packed with loud V8 engines, while they are stuck with tiny roadsters that have about as much displacement as a bottle of Mountain Dew. A lucky few have managed to get their hands on classic American sheet metal though…and they don’t fool around.

This video found by Bangshift highlights the running of the famed, 13-mile Nurburgring race track…in a 427-powered Ford Fairlane.

The ’64 Fairlane 500 was the definition of muscle car, and Ford dropped an impressive array of engines into this car straight from the factory. Perhaps the most legendary was the 427 engine, which conservatively made 400 horsepower. The car in this video is run by Team Classic Driver, a group of gearhead Germans who take their classic American cars seriously. Backing up this 427 engine in the Fairlane is an aluminum Toploader transmission.

But that’s not all! The car itself sports a fiberglass hood and body, dropping hundreds of pounds in weight off this bad boy. We’re going to assume the way this monster tackles corners at high speeds that the archaic suspension has received at least a few minor updates as well. It blitzes past all sorts of small Euro cars, and even a Mustang (around the three-minute mark). Just listening to the engine roaring is sheer automotive bliss, so take a few minutes and watch this Fairlane make mincemeat of the competition.

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