There’s a lot of new stuff here on the show floor at SEMA 2013 but some things stand out above the rest and the one single thing that most people are kind of freaking out about here is the Ring Brothers carbon fiber widebody 1965-1966 fastback body. This piece is so light that the guys at Ring Brothers claim that the Dynamat sound deadener inside the body actually weighs more than the body itself. Make no mistake, the Ring Brothers have no designs on selling thousands of these things but they are playing this deal the right way and will be selling the carbon fiber components a la carte to whoever wants them. While there may be a very limited market for a complete carbon fiber bodies, there is a vastly larger market for guys looking to buy carbon fibers trunk lids, fenders, bumpers, doors and other components that will help to take a ton of weight off of their cars.

While there are plenty of semi-weirdo looking carbon fiber race car bodies for sale out there in the world, this is no one of them. The body is made lots thicker than something designed to skin a tube chassis and the manufacturing process utilizes a vacuum infusing process to get the resin to fiber ratio correct for maximum strength while keeping weight down. The Ring Brothers know that if they went to just simply create the most paper thin body possible it wouldn’t serve the duties necessary out of a car that will spend time on the street or in environments where stresses could be placed up on it. The body is not a stock replica of a 1965-1966 Mustang, it is widened by 2″ on both sides to give it a more muscular look and to provide the width necessary for the fitment of some mondo rubber in the rear of the car. We dig this modification because frankly 1965-1966 Mustangs do not have the “shoulders” of their 1967 and up bretheren so they kind of look like the spring chickens of the group. The width enhancement solves that problem although it also means that the doors will only work with cars that are also widened as well. The other pieces like fenders, hood, trunk lid, etc will all fit on a stock example.

The panel fitment really blew us away on this thing. Understand that the back end of the car is not some one piece hunk of carbon fiber. This is a multiple piece set up and it all goes together like the factory cars did. Understanding that, pay attention to the precision fit that these pieces have in the photos below. Panel gaps are as good or better than factory and the only way that happens is by spending an exorbitant amount of time getting it right. The Ring Brothers obviously have a reputation of doing that with all of their builds and that same attitude was applied to this body.  Additionally, and maybe more importantly, this car could be painted just as it sits and you’d not have wavy panels or any of the issues the typical fiberglass presents. It may sound completely insane, but if you are looking to build a serious early Mustang and you find a car that isn’t rusted to crap, you are going to pay a pile for it. If you do find a car that is rusted to crap you’re going to pay a pile to get it fixed and modified. If you buy this body, you’re going into the paint booth with very minimal prep and you may end up ahead of the money that you’d be into a steel car. We did say may remember.

Now, we have no idea what the finished product will cost and the guys weren’t going to tell us because they are still finishing the nose pieces back at the shop. They are going to release pricing on this body after the first of the year and we will report on it when they do. Here’s a few things to understand about it. One, it will be big dollars. Two, some people will buy them (they already have one sold to a dude in Moscow!). Three, this is the ultimate option for someone looking to build the pro touring car of all time and there are plenty of dudes wanting to do just that. Four, did we mention that it will not be dime store material? There’s a lot of hours, a lot of sweat, and a lot of investment in creating this.

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