While it may be difficult to see with the untrained layman's eye, but what appears to be your ordinary, run of the mill, gas tank sticking out the back, is in fact a well camouflaged wheelie bar.
While it may be difficult to see with the untrained layman's eye, but what appears to be your ordinary, run of the mill, gas tank sticking out the back, is in fact a well camouflaged wheelie bar.
I had a buddy that had a pinto with a Mustang 5.0 transplanted into it. He called it his 5.0 killer. Completely stock looking, with real quiet exhaust. But damn it was fast.
His other project, which was nearly complete last time I saw him was a '78 Pinto that was on a rotisserie. He welded and smoothed the entire underside of the chassis and doghouse. There was not a visible weld, sheet metal seam, or a single unnecessary hole anywhere on the car. He sectioned the front radiator support so it could be removed with a couple pins. That was to slide the 351 Cleveland into it without scratching anything. The heads had exhaust ports I could literally fit my entire hand into. To top it off, it had the most beautiful grabber green paint job that mimicked the Boss 351 Mustang. Flat black stripes and logos. It is to this day the sickest custom car I have ever seen. And it was a damn Pinto!
This is one way to save a ranger after the frame rot's and breaks in half. I have seen odder things throughout the years, such as a Vega wagon turned into what I would term a micro pickup, something like this one: