Club builds Mustang movie car in six hours before a live audience
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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Freestyle4x4f150 5:02PM (1/08/2008)
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.
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Franz 5:02PM (1/08/2008)
Oh, crap... there's gonna be a fourth one.
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Farris 5:05PM (1/08/2008)
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."
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seoultrain 5:50PM (1/08/2008)
lol, please post a link if you have.
Farris 6:29PM (1/08/2008)
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.
chris 5:15PM (1/08/2008)
Lambo Doors = Epic Fail.
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Nacon 5:14PM (1/08/2008)
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)
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R 7:26PM (1/08/2008)
Come on! I'm looking forward to the half-hour quarter mile races.
cwcentral 1:56AM (1/09/2008)
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...
MachinaDC5 5:23PM (1/08/2008)
KITT what've they done to you?!
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Taylor 5:23PM (1/08/2008)
This takes the award for ugliest Mustang ever away from the SEMA mustang. Love them nostrils!
/sarcasm
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catgirlshyla 5:24PM (1/08/2008)
Another Mustang Article? Someone at Autoblog broke their New Years Resolution.....
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seoultrain 5:40PM (1/08/2008)
is that a floor mat on the trunklid?
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DS 5:40PM (1/08/2008)
At least it doesn't have one of those huge picnic-table wings....
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Hank 5:46PM (1/08/2008)
bullsh!t a$$hole! no one likes the tuna here!
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Brendan 5:49PM (1/08/2008)
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?
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mk 6:06PM (1/08/2008)
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?
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Jaymez 8:50PM (1/08/2008)
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.
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iamhoff 5:36PM (1/09/2008)
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?
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K-2s 3:23PM (1/11/2008)
anyone notice in the stock Mustang picture it looks like a glass roof?
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