In the world of muscle cars and performance, loyalties run deep – doubly so when it comes to the age-old battle between the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang. So it’s always a little weird to find someone who’s crossed over from one camp to the other, and it’s really weird to find someone who’s managed to straddle both at the same time. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what we have here with this Chevrolet Camaro nose job on a Ford Mustang.
Basically, what we’re looking at is a Chevrolet Camaro front-end grafted onto a fifth-generation Ford Mustang S197 body. Discovered on Facebook courtesy of user Jay Prince, there’s no question this machine is utterly unique.
Regardless of how Chevrolet Camaro fans might feel about grafting the front end of their favorite muscle car onto its Blue Oval archrival, we gotta at least give credit where credit is due. The transplant looks utterly flawless, with no gaps in the panels or obvious misalignment in the parts used.
Apparently, the story behind this Chevrolet Camaro / Ford Mustang mashup is that it was originally a 2005 Mustang with a V6 engine, which the owner heavily modified for track duty. After extracting as much as possible from the chassis, the owner then decided to bless his ride with more power, with an engine swap determined as the only truly viable option in terms of reliability and power gains.
However, rather than throw in a Coyote V8, the owner decided to instead get a little crazy and drop in a complete 6.2L LS3 V8 powertrain and drivetrain from a fifth-gen Chevrolet Camaro. Insanity, sure, but the results speak for themselves.
To keep it street legal and inspectable, the owner also swapped in a complete Camaro interior, including the HVAC system, and a number of front-end body components too.
Frankly, we’re blown away by how clean the swap looks. Do you agree? Is this pure blasphemy, or pure awesomeness? Maybe something in between? Let us know in the comments below.
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Just someone with too much time and money to spend.
It should be named the cum-stang.
I only got one question. Who is it gonna piss off more……the Camaro people or the Mustang people?
Heck that looks good very nice man
Good job on the transplant but, I’d never do that to my Stang. As a Ford guy, to me this is blasphemous. To each his own I guess
That’s the only way a Camaro will look like it’s going fast.
Blasphemous. But CLEAN!
Wow what a waste have a perfectly good Camaro front end. Well at least it has one good part, yeah he’s going to have to remember it’s not a Chevy LS it’s a Ford so he will have to go easy on it or it will blow up
The Ford Mustang owner probably experienced an accident and got the Camaro nose from a salvage yard, a little DIY and he got this mutant.
To say the Mustang or Camaro sucks is like saying a team in the Superbowl sucks… Obviously not. However chevy is a pretty shit company when you look at the facts and the way they go about downing there competition and saying things based off customer surveys that they never actually sent out. Not to mention that trailblazer commercial full of adjectives and labels for stupid people to grasp and then decide to buy the vehicle. No information about the new vehicle at all just pretty words and half ass actors. Hopefully they finally fixed the key fob problem that turns off while driving, cutting the power steering and brakes… Seems they like to kill people. Did the same thing 15 years ago with cobalt and chevy express. Say what you want about Ford but when you look at facts and car news from 20+ sources, they lead the way for America. I have respect for Camaro and Corrvette but that bowtie ruins the cars. I hope chevy gets their act together before the camaro fails yet again. They wont bring it back a third time and if they do, it’ll just be sad.
So, to sum all that up, he ruined that mustang with that shitty bowtie.
Good thing the running gear is Chevy or this creation would have never worked,.lol.
Thanks for the props. This is the first of many articles that have been written that actually give some insight to my build. Its an effort that took me about a year and 700 hrs to build. I also did all the work myself so the cost would likely surprise you. It is a lot of fun to drive and show.
Beautifully done! So, did you want the LS all along, or is this a case of getting a good deal on the drivetrain and everything else followed?
This is right up there with the 4586 in terms of insanity. And, to put yourself out there to be hammered by both the Mustang and Camaro crowds takes some kind of masochistic bravery.