Pakrat
Founding Member
In real life I agree, in photoshop anything can be made to fit though, just takes more patience.
I'd be easier if you use a 67 and up, the 64 1/2-66 are not as wide as the later models
You know, that doesn't look half bad, although I would lose the rear wing and make the front chin a little more conservative. 99-04 GT's are dirt cheap right now. That would be a neat body kit. Somebody call Cervini and get this one on the market!
I remember a S197 with classic fenders, doors, quarters in one of the magazines last year. Cant remember which issue though. I believe it was in Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords. Absolutely incredible..
This I understand -- taking a great modern car and giving it the looks of a classic.
But why do so many people want to turn that around? They want an old Mustang that doesn't look like an old Mustang, has an entirely modernized interior that doesn't look like the classics's, modern drivetrain, modern suspension & brakes, modern steering, and on and on and on...
At this point you've spent a TON of dough and have all of the trappings of a new Mustang attached to a weak, inferior structure.
So why not just get an S197 and mod it?
Believe me brother, I'm with you on all counts noted above. I have devoted this part of my life to it. Making a classic Mustang work like a new one is an amazing, worthy, and rewarding feat. My point was that if you make it look like a late-model on top of all that, internally and externally, where is the classic Mustang? It's just an S197 with a different unibody structure.Okay I'll bite on this hook.
I can think of quite a few safer, faster, better handling, and just plain better cars than the Mustang. However, I cannot think of a car that is more fun. I would even argue that some of the reasons that the Mustang is so much fun is precisely because it is not the fastest, safest or best handling car on the road. That is where the owner gets his chance to play automobile designer. I know in my own build I am planning on making quite a few "upgrades" to the brakes, suspension, gas tank, engine, and interior, and those things, because they are so outdated by today's standards, are what make this more like re-engineering a car than modding a car.
I have owned a SN-95, and I currently own a S-197. People mod these all the time, but to me it just isn't the same. On my s-197 I thought about trying to trim the front bumper, give the rear quarters "hips" and fixing the funky lines of the truck and rear bumper, but then reality hit me. I probably will trade the thing in a few years from now, and if I did all that I would ruin the trade in value. I don't ever plan on getting rid of my 66, so I am free to change what I like.
My $.02
The Ring Brothers don't try to make their cars unrecognizable. That's the beauty of their art -- the bodies are heavily modified and often re-proportioned but the end result is still very recognizable as a classic Mustang.Looks like the Ring Brothers have some serious competition coming, that car is almost unrecognizable.
Check this project out... there 5 more videos after that its going to be sick....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htcloaqRIHY
I cant wait for the finished project...
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