Ford never offered a 460-cubic-inch V8 in a 1967 Mustang, the largest factory option that year topped out at 390 cubic inches. This resto-mod fastback drops a 7.5-liter big block into a shell wearing Bullitt and Eleanor-inspired styling cues, a swap that demands reworked front springs and typically a 9-inch rear axle to survive the torque. The result is a sound the factory engine could never produce.
Custom built 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback resto-mod with a huge 7.5-liter 460 cubic inch Windsor Big-Block V8 engine.
In the video you get to hear the insane engine and exhaust sound (Martelius Exhaust), engine startup, revs, check out the interior and inside the engine bay, and overview of the exterior with stunning custom silver paintjob plus candy colored Shelby style stripes and chrome 17″ Cragar S/S Wheels.
Bullitt style Fastback Mustang with an Eleanor style Silver paintjob, that’s quite the combo, enjoy!
Ford never put a 460-cubic-inch V8 in a 1967 Mustang, not from the factory, not as an option, not even as a special order. The biggest engine buyers could check off the order sheet that year topped out at 390 cubic inches, which makes this fastback’s engine bay something the original engineers never signed off on. Someone dropped a 7.5-liter big block into a shell wearing a Bullitt-style silhouette and an Eleanor-style silver paintjob, two homages to different Mustang legends mashed into one car. The result, according to anyone who’s heard it run, is a sound the factory 390 could only dream about. Getting a 460 to fit inside a first-generation Mustang’s engine bay isn’t a bolt-in job either, it demands reworked front springs and typically a beefier 9-inch rear axle just to survive the torque. What made builders willing to go through all that trouble for one more inch of displacement?
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What Ford Actually Offered in 1967
A stock 1967 Mustang Fastback buyer had five engine choices, starting with a 120-horsepower 200-cubic-inch inline-six and topping out at a 320-horsepower 390-cubic-inch V8, nothing close to a 460. Ford’s genuine big-power option that year lived in the Shelby lineup instead, where the GT350 carried a high-performance 289 and the GT500 hauled a 428-cubic-inch V8. A 460 in any 1967 Mustang, Shelby or otherwise, simply didn’t exist as a factory possibility.
Squeezing a Big Block Where It Doesn’t Belong
Fitting a 460 into a first-generation Mustang’s engine bay is a genuinely tight squeeze, and it’s become enough of a common restomod project that specialty shops like Crites Restoration now sell dedicated swap kits for it. The conversion typically calls for upgraded front springs, in the neighborhood of 720 inch-pounds, along with a five-leaf rear spring setup and traction bars, plus a stronger 9-inch rear axle to handle the torque the factory 8-inch unit was never designed for.
Paired with a Martelius exhaust and a Bullitt-meets-Eleanor visual theme, this build turns a car Ford never imagined into something the original engineers would probably need a minute to process, sound included.
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