Jim and Mike Ring’s creations are well known for their high-end, high quality creations that start life as standard muscle cars such as the “Recoil” 1966 Chevelle and the “Afterburner” 1964 Fairlane. For SEMA 2015, Ringbrothers unveiled their newest creation, a carbon fiber wide body 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback that they have dubbed “Espionage”.
Espionage’s shape is two inches wider on each side of the car, and other small adjustments were made to make the Mustang’s shape unique to Ringbrothers. Good luck seeing the carbon fiber underneath the BASF Glasurit Waterborne paint, which is fittingly enough, “Spy Green”. A spy naturally needs to be able to perform, and Espionage does, with a Wegner Motorsports-built and Whipple supercharged LS7 427ci hooked to a Tremec T56. 959 horsepower and 858 ft/lbs of torque hustle the Ford around properly while blasting out a warning through in-house built headers and a fabricated exhaust fitted with Flowmaster Super 44 mufflers. Brakes are Baer 14″ disc and six-piston calipers at all four corners, to which custom HRE Wheels fitted with Nitto Invo tires are bolted to.
“’Espionage’ has been a huge undertaking for our little shop. Over the past few years it has been an incredible challenge but one that’s also been incredibly rewarding,” says Jim Ring. “When Mike and I build a car, we always try and come up with something that nobody’s ever seen before and I think that the work we’ve done on “Espionage” really qualifies that statement.”
Should be named Traitor.
Should be crushed for being a foreign agent and its builders sent to one of those secret torture chambers run by the CIA!
…where they’d be forced to read all your trolling on this website.
There definitely is something to this fascination or insecurity of cross pollinating Ford cars with GM engines.
In this case we have a trailer queen that I doubt will see more a token few miles on it with an inherently ugly engine choice.
The Ford engine line has no holes in it. In addition they run just as well and judging by the results of the past 10 years of the Factory Stock Shootouts ( CJ, COPO, Drag Pak) Fords are the most potent of the bunch.
So while the craftsmanship looks great, the concept kinda kills it for most Ford aficionados I would guess.
I’ve looked at a hundred pics from SEMA this year and have yet to see a Vette, Camaro, or vintage GM anything with anything but a GM engine in it. Boring!
Seems like a lot of work to end up with a ’65 Mustang look alike that the GM dog took a dump in. Sorta like dressing Megan Fox in a wool turtle neck.
You must have missed the yellow ’55 Chevy “BadMan” gasser with a 392 Chrysler Hemi. It was in the 2013 SEMA Show. You can find it in this gallery: http://autophocus.com/sema-show-group-6/.
Another “Creation” by the brothers. Almost as Butt ugly as the last few that were built. No taste in design at all. They are from the school of ” if some is good- more is better”. Would someone please let them know Billet Aluminum has been out of style for a number of years.
Maybe they should take their Creations and have Chip and Overhaulin rebuild them correctly.
A bow tie in a blue oval is not cool.
Almost understated compared to the trinket laden stuff they’ve done in the past. I am not bothered much at this point with the engine selection – it’s not really a Ford – it’s a “body” just like one of those quasi ’37 MInotti (sp?) deals that the street rodders were enamoured with for a while.
That said, this is really not ground breaking in any way – just a collection of current clichés. The blown LS is like a 350 Chevy, and these guys put them in everything they build. The blech paint color is a lift from Foose & Trepanier’s lead and will become dated in a couple years. They kinda too a lead with the assymetrical theme a couple years back, but that is also played out looking.
A nice example of an expensive show car that will be easy to walk past within a couple years.
Well, I like it. It’s a solid, sane SEMA vehicle. I’d take a dozen cars with mismatched engine brands than any one of those ridiculous SEMA brodozers.
Love it or hate it, I heard in an interview that the customer wanted the LS, so when you build cars for a living, do the math.
I think this is one of their better builds. The only negative is the taillight housing, looks bulky and out of place with the rest of the car.
It would have been better with a Terminator or Coyote but if customer wants LS, customer gets LS.
It’s a flaming turd. The End.
At least the LS will lay down simple reliable horsepower. I would have preferred a blown AMC 360 or new Cummins 5.0 v8 diesel, but it’s not my car or my money.
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