RPM PROJECT CAR

PART 2

story by

Toby Brooks

photos by

Christi Brooks

Gutting Your Horse: Family Edition

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ast month we kicked off our new pro street throwback, project “aPocalypSe Horse,” that we think will be “the second coming of pro street.” The build is based on a 2006 Mustang GT, a modern body style too new to ever have been given the classic pro street look back in the trend’s peak in the late ’80s and early ’90s. With a suitable builder car in our possession, it was time to get to work. The first step in any build should always be the plan-

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ning phase, and our project was no different. After putting ideas together and commissioning legendary automotive artist Steve Stanford to bring them to life as only he can, we had a multipage bullet list of parts, pieces, and priorities—and the coolest rendering of a pro street-styled screaming pink Mustang the world has ever seen. With the plans well in hand, it was time to get down to business. Unfortunately, the construction of our new four-bay garage