SPRING SPECIAL ’STANG

SOMETIMES, RACING is just something that happens, even if it starts later in life. Just ask Chelsea, Michigan, resident Bill Kulenkamp. Like so many car-crazed teens, Bill tested his stoplight sprinting prowess during his formative days in high school, but unlike many of his budding weekend warrior contemporaries during the muscle car heyday, Bill didn’t pursue his penchant for speed any further once school ended.

Instead, Bill did the adult thing, which included a 36-year career as a diemaker at Ford Motor Company. It was after his retirement when the racing bug really hit, by pure chance, and at the helm of a what turned out to be an exceptionally rare Blue Oval, as he recently explained to us.

“Back in 1991, I was shopping for an old Ford when I ran across a 1971 Torino Brougham. It wore its factory red paint and it turned out to be a low-mileage survivor that had never been touched. What was interesting about it, and what really