Yes, I know I’m fixated on the Barbie Mustang that the guys at Grind Hard Plumbing Co. have put together, but look at it…tell me you didn’t think of doing something like this yourself when you were growing up. Seven-year-old me was thinking about how painfully slow a battery-powered Jeep was and how much better it’d be with real rubber tires and an engine that actually had some grunt. Back then, I was picturing something like a Briggs and Stratton swap, not the engine from a street bike, and I most certainly was not looking at turbochargers…back then, the only thing I knew they were good for was the penny-whistle noise out of my grandpa’s 1984 Chrysler E-Class.
The Barbie Mustang has already proven itself to be fast and sketchier than buying a bake sale cookie from a stand three blocks due east of The Strip in Las Vegas, but recently a turbocharger was added, because surely nobody at the life insurance company watches YouTube, right? The results are in the video below and without spoiling too much…the results aren’t quite what they had envisioned. Then again, Nostradamus couldn’t have seen this thing come to life…
