The never ending smörgåsbord of awesome and terrifying projects that is eBay Motors leads us to a steaming heap of horror today with this very uniquely modified 1976 Ford Mustang II. The poster child for the malaise era, this particular 2.3L terror began its transformation to a mid-engined beast way back in 1978 and ended in 1988 when the over enthusiastic seller got too busy to continue work. What you get is a chassis last driven in 1984 with a plaster mold over the front and rear and what looks like a sliced up C3 Corvette tail end.
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1976 Ford Mustang II Converted To Mid-Engined Nightmare
4:40 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
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It looks like a Kelmark GT kit car.....
Sheesh, that's ugly....
Burn it!
The nightmare of a standard-issue Mustang II wasn't enough for this guy?
He encourages you or an agent to inspect that car? Who would inspect that and give any positive review? This person is seriously delusional about this project.
So... the car is laid up in traction? Gosh, what was he thinking?
I think he really bought this from Unique Performance Auction. But, it does appear to have more than 13 lbs of Bondo. Prisoners could probably have done better than that.
@DannyBN: If it had the Cobra II decals, he probably would have been satisfied.
I'd be very tempted to track down the shrunken 302 (what was it, a 267?) from ~'81, and turn this into a mini-Malaise Pantera.
Its terriable. It should be thrown back into the deep, fiery pits of hell. . .
Or it would be a great Jalopnik Personal Project Car Hell. King of all PCH's! Problem is, then you end up with a mid-engined mustang II, and that would just suck.
*terrible
Definately a 75-82 Corvette rear bumper. There were NO 83 Vettes. (Unless you count the GM prototypes)
Is this the same 2.3 from the Turbo T-Birds?
One word. Ick. No- strike that, make it UGH.
@Skydiver: If it's good enough for Jill Munroe...
If nothing else, I am truly inspired by his optimism in listing this for sale. This guy knows what hope is.
Almost as awful as those A-Rod chest-rub ads we had to endure for most the week.
This is what happens when too much time and not enough talent get together.
@EMPM, Esq.: COTD right there.
This thing should have been run against the Dangel Peugot in today's PCH.
This car makes putting a 302 into a Datsun look like putting a SBC 350 into a '69 Nova.
Horrendous bodywork? Check.
Dubious chassis integrity? Check.
Engine bay modification? Check with a capital F.
Malaise era base platform? Check.
Hasn't run since... ever? Check.
If anything could compete with a french 4x4 conversion, this could.
There is another very, very similar automotible everyone here has heard of.
It's a truly bonkers mid-engined supercar featuring a blown Ford engine.
Perhaps what we're looking at is the first prototype for the Koenigsegg CCR?
God help me, I see potential in that monstrosity. Plus it's only 2.5 hours from me.
My time on Jalopnik is messing with my head.
I need to go work on my current PCH, lest I consider buying this POS.
This is a story about a man with a dream.
A dream as big as America. A dream we all have had. The dream to turn a Mustang into something else.
The dream first took shape as the desire to move the engine around, thereby, um, moving the engine around. And then maybe cap it off with some sporty nose. But this dream was shallow and incomplete.
So he moved on.
He realized dreams should be big dreams. So in this big dream he dreamed of what the ultimate Mustang would be. It would be a marvelous, fantasy filled machine of joy! With not just a repositioned engine, but also horns. Oh so many horns!! And not one but TWO external tire carriers!!! Yes, now this was a dream worthy of dreaming!!!
So our hero dropped everything, divorced his wife, bought a tracksuit, changed his name to Zimmer and moved to the dreamland of Syracuse, NY. And here the dream has become real.
All that work and you still don't have something as nice as an unfinished Bradley GT II.
@P161911: Well played, I forgot my Corvette history.
As My dear old pappy would say. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!!!!!
Transsexual Mustang Sally.
Curse You Jalopnik! I'm not supposed to laugh that loud at work.
Having owned a Mustang II, I'm not acutually sure if this is worse or not...
I would title it "Bondo Bondage, Part II".
No, there is no "Part I".
i want a lot of whatever that guy was smoking, or snorting, or shooting when he thought up that project.
0 bids? Come on you know you want it.
It looks like a piece of soap dropped in a prison shower.
So, the poor guy who took it on as a project has come to his senses and wants to sell it? Good.
Can't help him for actually movin' it, though.
All Mustang IIs Must Be Destroyed!
the vette museum has an '83 vette that appears "finished", aka, not a prototype per se.
they didn't sell any, but they built at least one.
Brindle Mustang and Brindle Vette were in the machine together! And this is the horrifying mutant that emerged when the teleportation was done!
Well, the I-team'll be around in a while with their authentic Italian fraud-detectors to tell you that it's a fake...
That thing looks like it's violating all kinds of safety standards.
I have a feeling the front end's going to go one direction.
Down.
Please tell me this is a bad Photoshop job...
if you squint one eye, then punch yourself in the other, it looks like a veyron
Sometimes dreams get the better of us all. A fella near me has an almost finished, last touched 10 years ago, Meyers Manx with that same Ford engine peeking out the rear. Its for sale, BTW.
Just like the Kelmark GT I saw today, also untouched for 10 years.
And yet some people laugh when I say I have a Fiero project car....
Please, push this bastard child off a cliff! NOTHING should be made out a Mustang II except a scrap pile!
@Maymar: 255. 267 was a shrunken Chevy smallblock.
This actually isn't half as ugly as the stock Mustang II. Pretty horrible.
The only thing good about a Mustang II is that the front suspension can be made to fit an older Ford streetrod project.
If anyone ever drives this, it will be the first car to ever shatter when striking a speed bump.
I don't know whether to cry or... no I'll just have to cry.
One word... Fail
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