Velocity Restorations’ Re‑Engineered Classic Fox-Body Ford Mustangs
There’s little argument that the Ford Mustang is one of the truly classic nameplates in automotive history. Ford’s pony car has been in production long enough — having initially debuted in 1964 with relatively humble underpinnings — to have gone through seven generations.
It’s been powered by a smorgasbord of engines ranging from four-cylinder fuel misers to massive supercharged V8s. No surprise, then, that companies like Florida’s Velocity Restorations have established lines of refinished and redefined Ford Mustang restomods, specializing in ultra desirable models from 1967 and 1968.
Velocity’s latest Re-Engineered Classic, however, isn’t quite like the rest of the company’s classic machinery. Sure, it wears a galloping pony badge, but few would argue today that the Fox Body occupies the same rarified air of collectability in which the first-generation Mustang breathes.
And yet, according to Cody Dabney, Director of Production at Velocity, there has been such a strong reception to the first Fox Body restomod that the company recently debuted at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas that the team already has sufficient orders to keep them busy building Fox-Bodies through at least the next year …
