I’m not at all opposed to doing chassis swaps on old cars, I did a Caprice chassis swap on my 1956 Chevy way back in 2005 before anyone else had done that particular combo, and I love it. But there are some of these swaps that I just don’t dig because there are wheelbase issues, width issues and because people sometimes try to keep weird parts of the chassis donor, like the windshield. Then you end up with an old car with a modern windshield that is laid back too far and doesn’t match. I don’t think this is going to be one of those kind of projects, but we’ll just have to see. I’m intrigued.
For those of you out there who have never seen something like this, let me give you the quick and dirty on what has to happen. The donor chassis car, in this case the late model Mustang, will have all the body removed from the “chassis” leaving only the floors, firewall, structural supports, etc. The “body” car on the other hand has to have the chassis, floors, and most of the inner structures removed so it can slip over the chassis donor. It really is that simple, in principle, but it takes lots of trimming, fitting, trimming, fitting, trimming, and more fitting, to get it all just right and then wherever there are holes you have to make patch panels to fill them. There will be a lot of welding. Watch.
How many man hours do you have in this conversion of the 50 Ford onto a Mustang and what did it cost the customer?
Please do not build any more black smoke belching polluting vehicles. We’ve already fucked the world up enough.
shut up a hole.
Awesome!!!
What do they plan to do with the ugly gap between the dash and windshield?