Bobby Johnson’s Mid-Engined 1970 Mustang With Ford GT Power May Be The Most Awesome Car On Power Tour

Jun 12, 2015Apex Car Feature, BangShift APEX11

Bobby Johnson’s Mid-Engined 1970 Mustang With Ford GT Power May Be The Most Awesome Car On Power Tour

(Photos by Jeff Lee/HammerHead IRS) – When people decide to do unnatural things to classic cars it normally doesn’t turn out the way they (or anyone else) wanted. It takes some incredible skill and creative thinking to change the entire configuration of a classic car and keep it looking right and actually improving on the cool factory. The 1970 Mustang Mach 1 is a car that seems nearly impossible to make better buy Bobby Johnson did not believe that. In fact, he thought doing one of the most drastic things possible would make the car better. By replacing the engine with a blown overhead cam mill from a Ford GT and then placing said engine exactly where it would have been found in the mid-engine GT but keeping all of the clean and crisp looks of the 1970 Mustang intact, Johnson has a car for the ages.

Yes, there have been other people that have build mid-engine Ford GT “Mustangs” but the reality is that no one else has packaged the stuff into the stock dimensions of a historic Mustang body. The incredible car that Eckler’s built a few years ago used the Ford GT chassis and then a modified and stretched Mustang body over it. While this car lost a couple of seating positions and the ability to haul your groceries home in the trunk, it did not lose an inch of 1970 styling. With the decklid and hood closed, it looks like a nice pro touring Mustang. With them open it looks like something that has come straight out of the funny papers.

Johnson fabricated the entire chassis that the car is on and inside he used a 1999 Ford Mustang dash. Johnson stands at almost six and a half feet tall and claims that he can drive the car for hours on end in comfort so you know there is some leg room in the cockpit. This thing needs to be road tested or better yet track tested on video. We would love to see how the car performs with with has to be a vastly improved front to rear weight balance. Undoubtedly it can plant the tires and really shake when that 500hp, supercharged GT engine is let loose through the gears. We have seen photos of lots of interesting stuff on the Power Tour this year but we’re thinking that this car takes the cake. What do you think?

CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS OF THIS TRULY AMAZING CAR –

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11 thoughts on “Bobby Johnson’s Mid-Engined 1970 Mustang With Ford GT Power May Be The Most Awesome Car On Power Tour”

  3. Tedly

    That is a thing of beauty. The fact that he kept the Mustang’s look unchanged is badass. That’s the way you do it!

  5. Mike Carter

    I love Mustangs, always have BUT I THINK THIS MUSTANG HAS TO BE ONE OF TH BEST I HAVE EVER HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SEEING OR READING ABOUT!!!! Awesome, fantastic, bodacious, beautiful!!!! If it was a woman, I’d propose Marriage to it!!!! {AHHHH, PLEASE DON’T TELL MY WIFE, IT JUST MAY PUT HER IN A “MURDEROUS MOOD”!!!!

  6. Tom P

    Some brilliant engineering there to keep it looking like a 70 Mustang should. Love the hatchback idea and the stock dash contours fitted with modern stuff.

    1. John T

      did you actually read the article? they mention that car and make the point that this is stock bodied.

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