click image above to view high resolution photos from the build
How long does it take to build a show car worthy of being in the upcoming Fast and Furious 4 movie? Well, if the fourth installment is anything like the first sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, we'd say about ten minutes with a paint gun ought to do it. Hopefully the new FF film will be the best, however, since the original duo of Walker and Diesel are both back. A car for this movie, then, takes about six hours according to Stangpede, a San Diego-based Mustang club. Less than a dozen members from the club turned a stock Mustang into a full-blown show car in front of a live audience at the 2008 San Diego Auto Show. The transformation took just over six hours and included the addition of a Saleen 550-hp supercharger system, custom interior with racing seats, a glassback roof from Classic Design Concepts, and a retro body kit finished in Candy Apple Red paint. You can view details of the build in the photo gallery below.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Freestyle4x4f150 @ Jan 8th 2008 5:02PM
Looking farward to the movies, looks like the Mustang is the new tuner in term of popularity like the Hondas once where. Leave them alone just add wheels is good enouph for a Mustang.
Franz @ Jan 8th 2008 5:02PM
Oh, crap... there's gonna be a fourth one.
Farris @ Jan 8th 2008 5:05PM
They had to add the requisite Lambo doors...
I love the picture with a Lambo'd Honda next to a Gallardo (both of them with doors open) that says
"LAMBO DOORS: So played out, Lamborghini doesn't even use them."
seoultrain @ Jan 8th 2008 5:50PM
lol, please post a link if you have.
Farris @ Jan 8th 2008 6:29PM
Okay, so I couldn't find the exact thing I was talking about, but it used this picture:
http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/doors.jpg
with the caption I wrote above.
Nacon @ Jan 8th 2008 5:14PM
Fast and Furious 4?
I guess we'll see Paul Walker driving a car, shifting and steering with his right hand at the same time again.
....I would like to know when they'll stop making those non-sense wannabe crap. Damn you, Universal Studio!
(oh god... now kids are going to be saying "2 Fast & 2 Furious 4 U" all over the places)
R @ Jan 8th 2008 7:26PM
Come on! I'm looking forward to the half-hour quarter mile races.
cwcentral @ Jan 9th 2008 1:56AM
universal studios? Makers of knight rider 08? Did ford get a package deal? If so, if KR flops when it aires later this month, this will as well...
chris @ Jan 8th 2008 5:15PM
Lambo Doors = Epic Fail.
MachinaDC5 @ Jan 8th 2008 5:23PM
KITT what've they done to you?!
Taylor @ Jan 8th 2008 5:23PM
This takes the award for ugliest Mustang ever away from the SEMA mustang. Love them nostrils!
/sarcasm
catgirlshyla @ Jan 8th 2008 5:24PM
Another Mustang Article? Someone at Autoblog broke their New Years Resolution.....
seoultrain @ Jan 8th 2008 5:40PM
is that a floor mat on the trunklid?
DS @ Jan 8th 2008 5:40PM
At least it doesn't have one of those huge picnic-table wings....
Hank @ Jan 8th 2008 5:46PM
bullsh!t a$$hole! no one likes the tuna here!
Brendan @ Jan 8th 2008 5:49PM
ugh, the first movie was really more than enough. Paper thin plot and retarded chase scenes. Now they're working on a fourth??
I've got a novel idea, filmmakers: how about some ORIGINALITY?
mk @ Jan 8th 2008 6:06PM
Hollywood and originality have been divorced for some time, like any other couple in hollywood.
And any time it creeps back up, like Firefly, or Journeyman, they bash it in the head again.
Cookie-cutter crap is very much their speed. Right along with those lambo-doors.
Originality is too risky for the big money machines. Tried and true trash is much easier to bank on, and they are much more interested in making money selling TV and Movies than they are in making good TV and Movies for their wages.
Is it any suprise from the land of Britney Spears idolatry?
Jaymez @ Jan 8th 2008 8:50PM
For a FnF car, this one is reasonably tasteful. Ditch the Lambo doors and those awful racing seats and I'd drive it. Normally, I'd bash the stick on side scoops, but, I like the covering of the quarter windows.
iamhoff @ Jan 9th 2008 5:36PM
I didn't hang around for the entire build, but I was at the SD Auto Show when the tear down kicked off. Impressive to watch, and we'll see about how the movie is. Seems like they'd need more than one car for the movie. Anybody know if they hooked up with other Mustang clubs to do similar buildups at other auto shows?
K-2s @ Jan 11th 2008 3:23PM
anyone notice in the stock Mustang picture it looks like a glass roof?