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Warning: unless you identify as a purist, you might experience an urge to grab a Fox Body Mustang off an auction site and convert it into a wagon after checking out the rendering currently parked on your screens.
This is a quick pixel exercise, with the 2D work taking the third-gen 'Stang down the shooting brake route. However, the visual stunt is enough to get one into a daydreaming mood, to say the least.
Coming from an enthusiast named Jim, who introduced this as part of his Imagination Land series on Instagram (helmet tip to 1320video for bringing the work to our attention), this imagination exercise portrays a contraption that might just be a first.
Sure, we've come across Fox Body Mustang "family cars" before, but those were face swaps that saw the front end of the pony car landing on vehicles that had left the factory as station wagons. Such sorcery was possible thanks to the wide range of vehicles the Blue Oval built on the Fox platform, with the Ford Fairmont introduced in the late 1970s having served as a donor car for such custom machines.
And while feasting your eyes on these pixels might bring the third-generation Escort to mind (we're referring to the European model, not its North American sibling), that would be an entirely different proposition. That's especially because of the Mustang's V8 motivation and rear-wheel drive, a configuration that couldn't be further from that of the Escort (small four-cylinder engines sending the power to the front wheels).
Sure, the Fox Body Mustang might've been discontinued back in 1993, though its platform was updated for the SN95 that replaced it. Still, this generation of the machine has become extremely popular among custom car enthusiasts. As such, it wouldn't surprise us to see some eccentric garage out there or an YouTuber taking an example down the route mentioned in the intro. Heck, some might even call the result ahot muscle hatchback.
Coming from an enthusiast named Jim, who introduced this as part of his Imagination Land series on Instagram (helmet tip to 1320video for bringing the work to our attention), this imagination exercise portrays a contraption that might just be a first.
Sure, we've come across Fox Body Mustang "family cars" before, but those were face swaps that saw the front end of the pony car landing on vehicles that had left the factory as station wagons. Such sorcery was possible thanks to the wide range of vehicles the Blue Oval built on the Fox platform, with the Ford Fairmont introduced in the late 1970s having served as a donor car for such custom machines.
And while feasting your eyes on these pixels might bring the third-generation Escort to mind (we're referring to the European model, not its North American sibling), that would be an entirely different proposition. That's especially because of the Mustang's V8 motivation and rear-wheel drive, a configuration that couldn't be further from that of the Escort (small four-cylinder engines sending the power to the front wheels).
Sure, the Fox Body Mustang might've been discontinued back in 1993, though its platform was updated for the SN95 that replaced it. Still, this generation of the machine has become extremely popular among custom car enthusiasts. As such, it wouldn't surprise us to see some eccentric garage out there or an YouTuber taking an example down the route mentioned in the intro. Heck, some might even call the result a
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