This one should garner some reactions one way or the other. What you are looking at is a car called Muzilla. It is a 1970 Mustang that has essentially been draped over a late model Nissan GT-R. That’s a massive oversimplification of what happened here but the beating heart, drivetrain, and everything that goes along with it is Nissan. The 1970 Mustang body has been pretty wildly altered to fit the wider and differently proportioned Nissan. People were walking right past this thing today with no idea what it was or how much work had to have gone into making it.
We can hear the Ford purists now freaking out. That’s totally your right but we see this car as a pretty interesting look into what can actually be done to meld the new with the old in an interesting way. This car as an actual 1970 Mustang with a GT-R motor and transmission in it is way less interesting to us than what we are seeing here.
There’s not a panel on this sucker that has not been stretched, moved, massaged, or otherwise altered to make this program work. How about the big humps in the front fenders that look almost like a factory hood with biceps. The way that the hood was raised and opened up to reveal the fact that there’s a VR38DETT engine making all the racket under the hood.
We’re digging the wheel and tire combo pretty hard on this one. Rather than go with some massive wheel and rubber band style tires, this is a more conservative approach. Yes, they are 18-inch rollers but they are holding onto 275/40/18 rubber. The sidewalls are right in the wheelhouse for this era of car.
To us, SEMA is about showing off stuff like this. Ideas that challenge “normal” and make you either expand your own horizons or miss out on seeing the handiwork of the most talented car builders in the world. If anything, this thing is a study on daring to be different and we don’t see much downside with that.
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– Says the Ford purist.
Don’t hate the idea, but man it didn’t come out right.
That’s about my take too. The wheel and tire package and the back fender flares work great – the front end, not so much. The fender tops look like they were trying to get a too-tall Mac strut suspension to clear everything. It would have come out cleaner if they had kept the double wishbone front end and just improved the geometry.
At first I thought it was some Camaro / Mustang mashup then I started reading the details and now I kind of get it.
How many car shows do you attend and go oh there’s a Mustang and pass it by without a second look? The only way to stand out from the crowd is to different.
And the point of this is?
I thought not – just some jello-head with a hard-on for rice whose sugar daddy gave him a Mustang to play with….
I kinda wish it had an LS just for you.
If the fenders and hood werent so wonky, and had different wheels I would like it. Also looks like they forgot to finish the behind the rear tires.
Damn Geordie,you depressed me with that lame remark,step it up buddy!
Yeah, they ruined a perfectly good GTR with that ugly ass Mustang body.
I think it’s great….that they didn’t do this to an AMC.
The car looks good except the headlights/grille area. Proportion is out of whack.
Kinda looks like the love child of a Toronado and a Mustang….
Why do builders try so hard to put old cars on modern car chassis? The proportions of the old car get screwed up so badly every time, what’s the point?
What does it also say about modern car designers? They can make an aesthically pleasing car to save their lives, no matter their budgets?
I bet that hood flopsup and down like a fish at speed!
I like weird and unusual stuff but it has to work….this kind of does but the hood/front fenders are a total mess.Why try and accommodate suspension that doesn’t fit with dopey fender/hood extensions? And all this work so you can use a jap V6…why? Are there no Ford V8’s good enough? Another case of just because you could do it doesn’t mean you should do it…
IT is here in video, and indeed, it will piss some guys off!
https://youtu.be/mGdQIWJndtA?t=3m12s