Posts Tagged: 1968 Mustang
A father and son in Strasbourg spent two years restoring a 1968 Mustang GT Fastback built to the same spec as Bullitt’s most famous chase car. Days after finishing it, the groom drove it to his own wedding. Here’s the story behind the build — and why the ’68 GT Fastback remains one of the rarest, most requested Mustang body styles ever made.
A barely-running 1968 Mustang, bought for $9,500, gets a fuel-injected V8 heart transplant from an unlikely donor — a Ford Explorer, not another Mustang. No Bolts Left Behind compresses nine months of wrenching, a custom EFI wiring harness, and a full drivetrain overhaul into one build, and viewers are calling it the most approachable engine swap they’ve seen in years. Watch to see why the donor engine choice has over a million viewers rethinking what a budget V8 swap actually requires.
A California-built 1968 Mustang fastback spent four years getting reborn as a show-winning resto-mod — new 302 small-block, four-wheel disc brakes, and an Orange Glow paint job with matching seatbelts. Automotive historian Steve Magnante walks the build, and the car’s San Jose roots tie it straight back to the Bullitt-era Mustangs that made the fastback famous.
