Mid-Engine ’67 Mustang Goes Ultra-Wide for SEMA
This wild mid-engine 1967 Mustang was built from scratch as it aims for a SEMA debut in the coming weeks.
Over the past few years, Chris Steinbacher of the YouTube channel B is for Build has forged quite the reputation for building some of the wildest machines out there, whether it be his controversial Eleanor recreation or a twin-turbocharged LS-powered Lamborghini off-road weapon of destruction. Now, as Steinbacher is attempting to once again one-up himself in his own world of crazy builds, and he’s putting together something truly special – a mid-engine 1967 Mustang – which he just treated to a pretty extreme wide body kit, as we can see in the video below.
What’s particularly cool about this mid-engine 1967 Mustang, however, is that it’s actually a former movie car, having served a role as a stunt vehicle in Need for Speed. In the movie, it was actually bodied as a Bugatti and was subsequently crashed into by a cop car. Since then, it’s being transformed into a ’67 Mustang with a design conjured up by an artist named Karana Divi, whose renderings are what inspired this particular project in the first place.
Obviously, building something like this from scratch is a rather complicated endeavor, and thus far, Steinbacher and his crew have put together a custom frame and body, with plenty of sheetmetal and fiberglass work taking place. This particular episode focuses on the wide body kit that will make it truly unique, however, and it’s every bit as over-the-top as we’d expect from Steinbacher’s Hot Wheels-like builds.
No matter how one feels about wide body cars, it’s hard to ignore the skill and craftsmanship that goes into crafting this one. The team makes a rough shape for the fenders out of some wire, then fills it in and begins the fiberglass work. Crafting the whole thing by hand is obviously the hard way to do things, as most people simply buy pre-made kits these days and slap them on. However, this project aims to stand out from the crowd, and it figures to do just that when it makes its debut at SEMA in just a couple of weeks.
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