YouTuber Transforms Totaled S550 Into Eleanor Replica

We’re not sure what’s more impressive about this faux Eleanor, the fact that someone thought to do this, or the fact that it fits so well.

We’ve seen more than our share of unusual body modifications performed on S550 Mustangs. Seeing as it’s still the current body style, we’re sure things will only get weirder as time goes on.

We think it will be hard to top this, however. According to the crew over at B is for Build, they’ve got their hands on a 2015 Mustang GT from a salvage auction. The Mustang had been in a flood and was completely written off.

What they did next is pretty shocking.  Immediately, the crew set to work chopping the body off. With the flood-victim Mustang looking like an overgrown go-kart, their plan began to take shape.

The B is for Build crew decided that they were going to, somehow, but a 1967 Shelby GT500 Mustang body on an S550 chassis. You don’t need us to tell you that that is a difficult undertaking, to say the least.

An Inch Here, An Inch There

For one, the new car is much wider. Some four and a half inches’ worth. Some of that slack is being taken up by the fact that they are building a replica of the “Eleanor” GT500 from the hit 2000 action thriller Gone in 60 Seconds.

That car’s wide body kit will make the car look a little more natural with the wider S550 platform underneath it. There’s another important measurement that surprised us, though.

The S550’s wheelbase is less than an inch longer than the 1967 Mustang’s wheelbase. The more we look at it, the less ridiculous this faux Eleanor all seems. Maybe we just lack vision.

The B is for Build crew definitely has a long road ahead of them. However, the body is now in place. According to them, it didn’t take nearly as much re-engineering as you would normally expect.

Seeing the body in place on the S550 Mustang chassis has us thinking that this car is going to turn out really well. Maybe the reason we like the Ford Mustang so much is that it’s stayed so close to its roots.

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Cameron Vanderhorst

Cam VanDerHorst has been a contributor to Internet Brands' Auto Group sites for over three years, with his byline appearing on Ford Truck Enthusiasts, Corvette Forum, JK Forum, and Harley-Davidson Forums, among others. In that time, he's also contributed to Autoweek, The Drive, and Scale Auto Magazine.
He bought his first car at age 14 -- a 1978 Ford Mustang II -- and since then he’s amassed an impressive and diverse collection of cars, trucks, and motorcycles, including a 1996 Ford Mustang SVT Mystic Cobra (#683) and a classic air-cooled Porsche 911.
In addition to writing about cars and wrenching on them in his spare time, he enjoys playing music (drums and ukulele), building model cars, and tending to his chickens.
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