Has anyone on the planet ever done a mid-engine Muscle/Pony car?

[SimplyKC]

A thread on here about the FFR GTM kit car ( http://www.factoryfive.com/table/ffrkits/GTM/GTMkit.html ) made me wonder if it would be possible to use a 60's shell as the body for something similar to this.

Has anyone ever done anything like this?

I've seen an a mid-engine Acura Integra before, and someone who had TWO Olds 455 FWD set up in the front and rear of a Chevelle (craziness), but how about putting a V8 into the rear passenger area on a tube frame like the GTM uses.

I'm just daydreaming and curious if this has ever been done.

[JEFFTATE]

I remember a 68 Camaro mid -engine car in a magazine 3 or 4 or 5 years ago.

[SaturnVUEguy]

There's a thread in the projects area of a mid-engine Mustang I found a while back. Not sure if its been updated though

[Tyler Beauregard]

I remember the Camaro. It was black, in Hot Rod magazine in mid 1999. They made the rear glass, rear quarter and trunk an engine cover that flipped up. If I recall it was also using a buick engine back there.

Crazy bastages.

Tyler

[SimplyKC]

Of course there is "Hemi Under Glass"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjD8ycBEDWY

And, the many Corvair V8 conversions

http://www.corvaircorsa.com/norris01.html

I see the Corvair has the same wheelbase as a first-gen Camaro...hmmm.

I saw a magazine from like 1972 where a guy did a C3 Corvette...it was kind of weird.

[hoosiergta]

Bill Porterfield had a company a long time ago called Midengineering. It may still be in busness. He put one in the back of a T-Bucket truck and on in the back of a 78-ish Olds cutlass .It would be about the same job.

[funbnme]

Lots of choices for you here:
http://www.race-car-replicas.com/

[6'9"Witha69]

Wasn't there a guy here or on Lat-g doing this on a 69 Mustang FB?

[SimplyKC]

Wasn't there a guy here or on Lat-g doing this on a 69 Mustang FB?

Yes, I found his thread here. He is using a Ford GT powertrain. No updates to the thread in a while.

[SaturnVUEguy]

thats the one I mentioned earlier

[bnickel]

there was also a 69 or 70 mustang done way back in the early 70's with a mid engine 351c and pantera (getrag) transaxle as well IIRC. i remember reading an article about it a long, long time ago on one of the major car mags of the time. the mag was probably from the early-mid 70's though i probably read it in the early 80's. i had a subscription to Hot Rod when i was 8 (1977) and my one of my neighbors gave me a whole bunch of back issues of all kinds of car mags around 80 or 81, so it could have been any of those or even later than that. anyway, the article was comparing 2 mid engine muscle cars one was the 69 or 70 mustang fastback which was converted to a hatchback so the engine could be serviced and the other was a first gen camaro IIRC, though it could have been a firebird and even could have been a 2nd gen car and not a 1st gen. i've always been a mustang/cougar guy since i was a little kid so i don't recall the camaro/firebird thing as well.

[SimplyKC]

there was also a 69 or 70 mustang done way back in the early 70's with a mid engine 351c and pantera (getrag) transaxle as well IIRC. i remember reading an article about it a long, long time ago on one of the major car mags of the time. the mag was probably from the early-mid 70's though i probably read it in the early 80's. i had a subscription to Hot Rod when i was 8 (1977) and my one of my neighbors gave me a whole bunch of back issues of all kinds of car mags around 80 or 81, so it could have been any of those or even later than that. anyway, the article was comparing 2 mid engine muscle cars one was the 69 or 70 mustang fastback which was converted to a hatchback so the engine could be serviced and the other was a first gen camaro IIRC, though it could have been a firebird and even could have been a 2nd gen car and not a 1st gen. i've always been a mustang/cougar guy since i was a little kid so i don't recall the camaro/firebird thing as well.

I bet that thing is sitting somewhere in a barn somewhere...unless they sold the transaxle to a Pantera owner at some point and junked it. Interesting.

[bnickel]

yeah it was a cool car and looked pretty darn stock from the outside too.

[JEFFTATE]

Lots of choices for you here:
http://www.race-car-replicas.com/

Wow , cool .
Nice link !

" If I ever get rich .........I'm gonna' get one of those"

[ProdigyCustoms]

Time Machines is building a mid engine mustang with GT 40 drivetrain influence.

[CraigMorrison]

Here's Art driving a rear engined AMX -
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/06/AMX1vi-1.jpg

Rear engined VW truck - (anybody knows of a cab let me know LOL!)

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/06/AmericanFlyervi-1.jpg

We also did the chassis for Ferrambo- Mid engine Ferrari powered Rambler.
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/06/IMG_2354vi-1.jpg

[ProdigyCustoms]

Craig, is VW the one Art told me about with the little "incident" on the top end?

He was a wild man!

Did we find that video?

[MuscleRodz]

There was a new Mustang at SEMA last year with a Lambo motor in it.

[ho428]

We have a local with a SBC mounted mid engine in his corvair. Looks kinda like a Pantera engine placement the way it's mounted. Has a cool looking Lexan cover over the engine since it's inside the car. He does the local shows, I'll try for a pic next time I see him.
Pretty cool build.

[jackfrost]

Hot Rod Harry's mid-engine 78 Olds:
http://members.aol.com/hrharrys/index7.html
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

and the Hurst Hairy Olds
http://hursthairyolds.com
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

[henryj1320]

I just happen to have a set of drawings and BOM for the Porterfield mid-engine vehicles. Yes, the same one who had his vehicle on the cover of HRM. I bought the set from him in the early 90's and never used them. I guess I might be interested in parting with them. Are people still interested in this design today?

[Rod]

there was a mid engine El Camino for sale on eBay back in november

[Protour_Pinto]

I did a couple
A mid engine bug with a corvair trans axle, corvette trailing arms and a big block chevy.

A wide body Chevy Monza with a eldo drivetrain

38 Imperial with a Eldo drivetrain.