The Mongrel Project, from Matt at Urchfab, is one cool project that we’ve been having a great time following. It’s the melding of a cool, old, English Ford 100E and a Mazda Miata. If Ford had made the 100E into a race car, this is what Matt envisions as that race car. We surely think its rad, even if we aren’t sure Ford would have thought so at the time. What’s cool about this video is that instead of being about all the fabrication on this cool little machine, this one is about blending all the body modifications so that it DOES look like something the factory might have built for themselves. Smoothing out this kind of major transformation is a hard job, but Nostalgia Matt knows body work and he is on the job so watch out. In this video he goes into detail on some of the work he’s done to make it pretty and we think it is cool as hell to see things from this perspective.

When you say bodywork, most people immediately envision Bondo and sanding and priming and painting. But the truth is there are way more steps than that, and a lot more processes than just spreading mud and sanding it off before paint. Getting something that once had rust, and once had a different floor and chassis, to be straight and pit free then you’ll have to do some shaping and welding and shaping and welding and more. There is plenty of good metal in this car now, but that doesn’t mean some of the past rust hasn’t effected the final work load. Watch and listen to Matt as he explains what he’s done and what’s to come.