Mustang Can’t Decide Whether It’s a Vert or a Rock Crawler
Sighted in North Carolina by a Redditor, S197 Mustang convertible looks ready to scale a few sand dunes and gravel roads.
One of the more unusual modifications anyone can do to a Mustang is to repurpose the beloved pony car as an off-roader. Results may vary, of course, but some of those ponies can handle the mud or rocky trails as easily as an F-150 Raptor.
Redditor ScaryTerryBeach found such an example with an S197 Mustang in a parking lot in Asheville, North Carolina, though this example wasn’t made for crawling upon boulders.
“I’ve seen these types of cars,” said Redditor Stubby_BOardman. “Not like an offroad rock-crawler, but like a gravel/sand racer.” Another Redditor, uneasylistening adds that the Mustang wouldn’t be the best at its intended job. “Mustangs are super light over the drive wheels by design… you can kick the back out at low speeds and have some drifty fun.”
Defecks begs to differ, though, stating “this is what is referred to as a mall-crawler. 100 percent positive this car never sees dirt in its lifetime.”
Adjudikated counters by recalling a time when owners of late Eighties and early Nineties Fox-body Mustangs would drop the body on top of a Bronco chassis and four-wheel drive system “because the dimensions were pretty close.”
Whatever the case, we’d love to see this Mustang thrash a few sand dunes instead of parked in a random North Carolina parking lot.
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