HPI Customs: 67 Mustang Fastback Project
 

So, its been awhile as I have been busy with my new son and house renos, but heres something that has been going on at HPI. For those who know about the "other" fastback we are building, that is going to be a different thread! (That car is coyote powered, and is the mule for our new Mustang chassis that we are developing!)

This is a more toned down mustang build!

So its a 67, getting a throttle body injected 347 stroker backed by a T5. The car is riding on TCP suspension, and has a whole lot of subtle mods. All the goodies like Vintage air, Ricks stainless tank, Custom exhaust, shaved firewall, custom vents and spoiler, and so on and so on. It will all follow in pictures!

The body came from Florida, and we had to do a fair amount of sheet metal replacement, inlcuding floor patches, drip rails, quarters, wheel lips, firewall, wiper cowl, rear window lip, trunk floors, and quarter extensions. We also made quarter panel end caps to eliminate the pot metal seamed piece.

We made custom brake styling scoops, but unfortunately the body shop that was to paint the car cut them out and sent them home in a box for us, replacing it with their own. Unfortunately, their own version looks like 68 shelby scoops, and the car is a 67. I liked ours better, but whatever. Needless to say, they didnt paint the car, and we had to shoot the engine bay and chassis so we could carry on !!! We also made a custom spoiler, and put a sheet metal shelby tail light panel on.

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We made a roll bar that fits a little nicer than a shelby style bar, it is arched to match the roof and the down bars are arched to match the interior panels!

It is just a "show bar" due to the arching, but it is on 6x6 plates like its supposed to be..... the shelby bar just bolted into the roof bracing so this should do!

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We put TCP suspension in front and rear. Nice stuff, but we had to modify the rear suspension to fit.

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The color that the car is going to be is Ford White Chocolate. We shot the engine bay that color already. The dash and all the accessories are being done in charcoal mist, and we are doing a charcoal stripe on the bottom of the car.

Can't wait to see the progress on this one, looks awesome so far. What size wheel and tire combo are you going to run?

67-68 Mustangs are my favorite years. Nice project.

The wheels the customer supplied us with don't fit........ :willy: so now its up to us to pick something with a bit more.......um style? I can only go with a 9.5 and 285's out back, we didnt mini tub it. After we did all the metal they came out with the new mustang minitub stampings.

Go figure!

As always....badass man! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

mini tubs
 

I searched for the mini tub stampings and couldn't find any. Do you have a link to them? Scott