Can't decide whether you want to buy a Lamborghini Gallardo or a 2007 Ford Mustang? We feel you. But thanks to handy hands and obviously demented soul of one John Haugh of Cleveland, Ohio, you needn't make that choice. You can instead buy the Gallardo V10-powered, Mustang-bodied, um, thing that Haugh built for reasons that may never be fully understood.
Tearing the V10 out of a Gallardo to implant in the back seat of a 2007 Mustang is a lot like, um, taking something of great value and appeal and putting it into something else of considerably lesser value and appeal. Actually, come to think of it a Lambo-motored Mustang is not actually like anything else at all.
Anyway, Haugh built the car for the SEMA show, the only venue where such a thing would make any kind of sense to anyone -- almost. The disappointingly named the Tractorri is now up for sale.
So for the low, low price of, well, no price is listed. Considering that Haugh once was quoted saying, "If someone were to take the amount of money I put into the Tractorri and doubled it, I still don't think I'd sell," we anticipate he's going to want quite a lot of money for what amounts to the antithesis of one of those fake-Ferraris built on a Fiero chassis.
smilez says:
10:35 AM, 02/ 9/10
He should be b-slapped on so many levels. One of the times where the headline says it all: Just because you can...
I honestly just don't know what to say about the body, and the creator. I just...I don't know.
brn says:
10:54 AM, 02/ 9/10
I suppose you do it because you can, but I'm befuddled on this one.
porschecarrera says:
11:01 AM, 02/ 9/10
Wow, as if the engine swap wasn't ridiculous enough, he had to make the rear end look like something on a pontiac aztec.
jederino says:
11:12 AM, 02/ 9/10
At least it looks great from the front - like a regular Mustang. Who knows - maybe he got the motor for cheap out of a celebrity wreckage. Impressive fabrication skills, if not judgment.
cruiserhead1 says:
11:27 AM, 02/ 9/10
How do you know he has impressive fabrication skills? Has anyone seen this mashup run?
This is stupid on so many levels but I like his Gump-like determination to follow through to completion.
inlinesix says:
12:26 PM, 02/ 9/10
What about taking the inexpensive chassis/drivetrain from the Mustang and putting a sleek body on it?
estreka says:
01:47 PM, 02/ 9/10
I'd rather have the Fiero.
gharry says:
02:01 PM, 02/ 9/10
I think the first time someone floors it in this thing, the car is going to double up on itself into a big heap. Look at what he cut through to fit the engine back there!!
hybris says:
02:09 PM, 02/ 9/10
I like the idea of the engine swap and I can live with the mid-engine placement though not very well done from a structual standpoint, but I draw the line with the body mod and the name.
cr_driver says:
04:35 PM, 02/11/10
Oh mama......
agnh says:
01:23 PM, 03/ 2/10
What a fantastic idea! He probably spent about $300K, and then spent about six months building something that looks like it's worth about $30K.