(Photo: GT500 SuperSwap via Facebook) Rebodying a new car to resemble an older, more desirable model is nothing new, especially where the Ford Mustang is concerned. When the S-197 chassis (2005-2014) debuted with it’s retro-Sixties shape, it took about zero seconds before the aftermarket was figuring out how to convert these new horses into Boss 302s, Mach 1s, Shelbys, and so on and so forth. We’ve seen some good kits, some bad kits, but there’s usually a tell somewhere on the body that admits that it’s a new car…maybe the roofline is still the new car’s, or maybe the dimensions are just a bit off.

This car, however, is if nothing else, one of the better attempts we’ve seen and when you consider that the conversion took place in a guy’s garage over the course of four years of weekends, and that he performed everything but final body prep and paint, that’s when you have to stand back and admire the work. The man is Dan Burback, and the car is the “GT500 SuperSwap”, a 2012 Shelby GT500 converted to look like a 1967 Shelby Mustang. The sheetmetal is all 1967 Shelby, the flares and spoiler were hand-made, and finished, the car is as close as anyone is going to get converting an S-197 into an older variation. There’s plenty of power on tap from the blown 5.4L V8, and the only real tell is the deep trunk well that is visible below the rear valance. Burback put together a time-lapse of the car’s build from teardown to rollout for paint…check it out!

(Thanks to Charles Wickam for the tip!)