Electric Mustang records 1.94-second 0-60 time, builder sets 200 MPH goal

Posted on Feb 7, 2018 in Featured | 2 comments

In the old George Romero zombie flicks, the living dead shuffled around like narcoleptic grannies in their bunny slippers. More recent movies have the undead jumping, climbing and running as fast or faster than those fighting them off. Mitch Medford’s zombi-fied electric Mustang falls squarely into that latter camp, as shown by the 0-60 time of 1.94 seconds that he recently cut with it.

The 0-to-60 time comes amid a number of personal bests Medford has set with the car since completing it late last year, including a 10.24-second quarter-mile run at 140.8 MPH and a 6.7-second 1/8-mile time at 111.5 MPH, both of which he ran last Friday at the grand reopening of San Antonio Dragway. From those dragstrip numbers he determined the 0-60 time using the Wallace Racing Calculator.

For comparison’s sake, a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport can hit 0-60 in about 2.4 seconds. A Porsche 918 in about 2.2 seconds. A Chevrolet Corvette Z06 in a galloping 2.95 seconds.

Medford, who began working on his dream of converting vintage Mustangs into fully electrified cars capable of supercar performance with the help of longtime electric drag racer John Wayland last year, originally envisioned 0-60 times of about three seconds and quarter-mile times in the mid-10s. On one of his initial runs in the car last summer, Medford recorded a quarter-mile time of 12.1 seconds and a 0-60 time of 3.5 seconds.

For the most recent runs, Medford has installed a pair of GearVendor overdrive units, a 2.47 rear gear out of a 1980s Lincoln Town Car, and has upgraded the electrical system to run each of the two 11-inch motors at 222 volts for a total of 440 volts and 3,600 amps.

The times come within a hair’s breadth of Wayland’s White Zombie, which has recorded a best of 10.258 seconds at 123.79 MPH in the quarter mile, with a 0-to-60 MPH time of 1.8 seconds.

They also come a couple months after Medford took the Mustang to the Texas Mile to try his hand at land-speed racing. While the speed that he hit—174.2 MPH—came just short of his 175 MPH goal, Medford did break the Texas Mile record for a street-driven electric vehicle, which previously stood at 155 MPH. Medford said he’s going to add a third GearVendor overdrive in his quest to hit 200 MPH at the next Texas Mile event this October.