HPI Customs: 67 Mustang Fastback Project - Lateral-g Forums

64pontiac · #1 06-07-2011, 10:41 PM

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!

64pontiac · #2 06-07-2011, 10:46 PM

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.

64pontiac · #3 06-07-2011, 10:48 PM

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!

64pontiac · #4 06-07-2011, 10:50 PM

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

64pontiac · #5 06-07-2011, 10:51 PM

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.

66GTFB · #6 06-09-2011, 07:22 PM

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?

cjperry81 · #7 12-30-2011, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by 64pontiac

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.

First of all I love your project. Im a huge mustang fan and im doing a 65 Coupe right now. I like your out of the box thinking. Im tired of all the aftermarket mustangs looking the same because the same 3 parts are available to everyone. So awesome job! My real question is how did you make the side scoop alteration. I tried to get a pretty good fab guy to do that exact thing to mine about a month ago and they tried but cant find a way to do it with out making the spike be separate from the body instead of molded and seamless?

64pontiac · #8 12-30-2011, 03:43 PM

Thanks for the compliments! To answer your question: We fabricated two "boxes" to weld in where the chrome insert normally would be, then flush welded the spear into the quarter and door skin.

Unfortunately, those got cut out by a sabatuer body shop (yes the same guy that left us with a mess on the RS-V, they went at the same time) and replaced with basically a 68 style scoop. We pulled the car and sent it to a new shop, but our work was already removed and the customer couldn't afford for us to do it over again, despite him wanting it.

64pontiac · #9 02-10-2012, 09:16 AM

Some more progress pics for you.

Got the exhaust tacked together ready to be TIG welded, turned out pretty good for having to do some unconventional routing.

64pontiac · #10 02-16-2012, 05:19 PM

Finished TIG welding the exhaust, so took some pics before we put it in! Enjoy