Mustang Style Exercise

I have this old red 2003 Mustang – it’s the car I drove to high school and college. Right now, it sits in the garage, and it’s my “some day” car. Some day, I’ll get around to doing something with it and drive it. For now, I thought It would be fun to do this Mustang style exercise to create a variety of styles based on the same car.

The car is a 2003 Mustang Premium V6, which I’ve had for fifteen years. I’ve gotten in plenty of trouble with it, but managed to keep it in pretty nice shape. I don’t really drive it anymore, but there are plenty of memories and nostalgia of shenanigans with friends associated with it for me, so I keep it. And you know how it goes – “some day, I’m going to do something with it.”

In the mean time, I’ve started a Mustang style exercise to design a variety of “what ifs” for this car.

The first one I made is this sedan delivery panel truck. I just extended the roof back across the trunk area, added side exit exhaust (which I’ve always had a thing for), and large five-spoke wheels. I have a thing for wagons, too.

The next design is basically the same, just as a family wagon rather than a sedan delivery. I added a rear window for the kids, thin white wall tires, and of course the wood paneling.

This style is intended to be representative of a 1950s lead sled style lowrider. I chose to draw this style using a darker red. I added chrome bumpers, a rear side skirt, lake pipes, and a healthy chop – think of a 1950-ish Mercury. To add more chrome, I replaced the side mirror with a small chrome bullet-style mirror, and the front wheel is a chrome smoothie wrapped in a thick white wall tire. I think this one looks absolutely hideous, but it’s fun to play around with, anyway!

The final design is pretty radical – I based this concept on what I think Ed Roth might do with it. I put the car on Mickey Thomson Rader single rib magnesium wheels, the rear riding on a white wall tire. Both the front and rear bumpers are modified with extensive fiberglass work, the rear with fins. Hot rod scallops are integrated into the paint, and of course the most dramatic change is the glass bubble top replacing the traditional greenhouse.

So that’s all for the first four drawings of this Mustang style exercise. I have about seventeen more ideas in my head, so stay tuned for more to come!

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