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Driver Donnie Bowles has proven that propane can be a winner. At the fourth annual NMCA Muscle Car Nationals at Milan Dragway in Michigan this past weekend, Bowles began with "a perfect 0.000 reaction time" and ended with a win following a run of 10.580 seconds at 121.00 miles per hour. Hank Hill would be proud.

Bowles was driving a liquid propane-powered Mustang that uses an all-aluminum 5.4-liter, V8 Ford engine that was designed for the Ford GT. With propane in the tank, it puts out 700 horsepower. To make the powerplant run on liquid propane, Roush added CNC ported cylinder heads, a high performance camshaft and valvetrain and a wet sump lubrication system. Bowles' teammate in the Roush Drag Team, Susan Roush-McClenaghan, drives an identical car and both have managed to reach the final round in earlier events this year, but this was the first win for the team in 2010.

[Source: Roush]

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