Steve,
here ya go- Mickey Thompson campaigned a SOHC 427 Ford funny car and had a tremendous record with it. If you are going to knock Rudy for running a Chevy, then you may as well take those M/T Pontiac Hemi heads you are always talking about and heave them as well. Because the guy that made those heads, eventually defected to Ford.
And look at the record he ran up with the SOHC Ford 427 cammer- 58 wins, 2 losses- and Mickey didn't only run one car, he ran THREE Mustang funny cars at one time.
http://www.dragracingonline.com/special/v8-ford3-2.html
quote from the site:
"Ford hung in there during the late 1960s and 1970. Danny Ongais (below) at the wheel of the Mickey Thompson "Mach-1" Mustang totalled up a 58-2 win-loss record during the first six months of 1969, and won the NHRA Springnationals and NHRA Nationals that season.
Way before there was a lot of anxiety and anguish over John Force’s three cars team of Ford Mustang Fuel Flops Mickey Thompson had already done that. Here are just a few of the nitro burning Mustangs that a variety of drivers drove for the legendary Thompson. Included here is of course Danny Ongias “Mighty Mike” Van Sant, Larry Fullerton and the legendary Johnny Wright."