Anvil Mustang

[ANVIL1]

There are a lot of modifications on this car, but some are so subtle that you won't notice them right away. That's sort of Pure Vision's calling card, but I pushed for some things that probably make this a bit more outside of Steve's normal comfort zone. The hardest thing to do is to make changes that don't diverge too far from the factory sheet metal, or seem to anyway, but still enough to be worth the effort. There are Easter eggs all over this car, so I don't want to blatently just list them here as to spoil the fun of finding them. I will, however give some clues. Take a look at the tail panel. It's been modified in more ways than one.




Now, I know the screen is not that subtle, but there are some other things going on there. It will be more apparent when I post some more pics later.

[GPR]

Originally Posted by ANVIL1

There are a lot of modifications on this car, but some are so subtle that you won't notice them right away. That's sort of Pure Vision's calling card, but I pushed for some things that probably make this a bit more outside of Steve's normal comfort zone. The hardest thing to do is to make changes that don't diverge too far from the factory sheet metal, or seem to anyway, but still enough to be worth the effort. There are Easter eggs all over this car, so I don't want to blatently just list them here as to spoil the fun of finding them. I will, however give some clues. Take a look at the tail panel. It's been modified in more ways than one.




Now, I know the screen is not that subtle, but there are some other things going on there. It will be more apparent when I post some more pics later.

The taillights are different the stock one mounts from the inside. These are like a 68 with the holes for the chrome which holds the light to the taillight panel.

[ANVIL1]

I worked on some of the parts we will be producing in carbon fiber myself including the rear bumper. Originally Steve had the steel bumper de-chromed and I was going to have his guys weld and grind on it to make the mods I wanted, but we both agreed that there had to be a better way, so I went to town on some foam and fiberglass. Mick's guys from Mick's paint did the final touches on it as well as all the other panels that are being molded to make the carbon fiber parts.

[ANVIL1]

The taillights are different the stock one mounts from the inside. These are like a 68 with the holes for the chrome which holds the light to the taillight panel.
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BINGO! We have a winner! It was more work than it looks as the two tail panels are just different enough but similar enough to still make it possible.

[Musclerodz]

I am waiting for someone to do away with the spoiler and come straight off the back for a "spoiler-less" look. I hope I don't have to build a 69 to see it done

[96z28ss]

Originally Posted by Musclerodz

I am waiting for someone to do away with the spoiler and come straight off the back for a "spoiler-less" look. I hope I don't have to build a 69 to see it done

I think thats the way the rendering is, but doesn't look like they did it.

[HRBS]

Matt... hurry up and finish those proto-types... LOL.
I told you we have another 69 coming in December

Looks great !

[ANVIL1]

Originally Posted by Musclerodz

I am waiting for someone to do away with the spoiler and come straight off the back for a "spoiler-less" look. I hope I don't have to build a 69 to see it done

We have a drawing like that on our gallery page on our web site, but I think most people prefer the flip up in the rear on the 69-70s since it's such a trademark of the car. We are making a custom 3 pc. spoiler extension that actually extends the flip up spoiler a little. So, I suppose in essence we are doing the opposite of what you would like to see. I figure if you like the look of the straight back trunk lid, one could start with a 65-68 or a 71-73. I believe if you knock down that built in flip up in the rear of a 69-70, it may wimpify it too much (sort of like castrating it). I also know that these Mustangs are a bit tail happy and light in the rear, so anything that will keep them more planted at speed is a good thing. And this car is built for speed!

[Rybar]

Matt I agree 100 % about the spoilers not only on this body style Mustang (69 is my fav) but most muscle cars of this era especially ones that came with them from the factory.

This is going to be a kick ass build from the looks of it. Please keep us updated with lots of pics I can't wait to see the end result.

[ANVIL1]

Here are some pictures of the evolution of our hood design which shows how much work that goes into making a custom part to reproduce in carbon fiber. I never liked the stock 69-70 Mustang hoods with that 'beak' or "ironing board" in the middle. I wanted to modernize it while giving it a functional aspect to boot. I really like the vents in the Aston Martin DBS hood, so we had that as our inspiration.


Here, we performed rinoplasty on the beak and started to build up the hump in foam

More foam, then bondo over the foam and lots of sanding and eyeballing with templates


You can see by the illustration below that the Aston hood's vents are too rounded at that corners for the more angular Mustang, so we tweaked them to be sharper. We also realized from these illustrations that the secondary vents off to the sides and further back on the Aston hood just made the Mustang hood too busy, so we decided to axe them.



Here's a screen shot of the computer model we did in Solidworks


Next we really needed to look at exactly where it made sense to position the vents on the hood. We looked at the underside and we didn't want to have to completely redo the underside bracing, and they needed to be functional, so we reallly only had one area where they made sense. The radiator sits so far back in the car that the more forward recess on the underside is actually where the core support is.



Here it is with one vent in place



Here's the finished hood pattern which we are making molds from