A race where Ranes (center) paid pro racers to come to his local track in Alaska

Ranes car in its new owners shop

A true crime of greed and corruption that could very easily end up as a made for TV movie has unfolded in Alaska.

It starts out with a welder just trying to make a living.  He ends up welding hidden compartments in trucks for over-border marijuana smuggling and starts a makeshift business to do so and launder the money earned.  It ends with murder and 30 years behind bars.

Thomas Ranes Outlaw 10.5 Drag Race Mustang, among many of his  other assets have recently become available via police liquidation.  We won’t try to quote a police PDF for the whole story, read it for yourself..

PDF #1

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• And he walked away….
• Holley files for bankruptcy protection, Again.
• 2010 Ford Mustang RTR and RTR-C