Don't have the cash for your own Mustang GT350 replica but can afford an SW20 Toyota MR2 and a big wad of fibreglass? Ride Cars from the UK have got something that could be right up your alley.

Ride Cars will sell you a full set of fibreglass bodypanels to re-body your MR2 into something that vaguely resembles a Mustang fastback. A Mustang fastback that's been shrunk in the wash, that is.

Consisting of a new front end, rear end, door skins, door sills and an assortment of hinges, lights and brackets, Ride Cars' kit does a fairly...ummm... admirable job of converting the MR2's sleek form into a twisted interpretation of 1960s American muscle. It's unique, we'll grant it that, but would you be seen driving it?

Despite our protestations, we're sure there'll be more than a handful of individuals who'll pony up the 3995 pounds ($8957 AUD) for the ready-to-fit conversion kit. A semi-assembled package is also available for the princely sum of 7995 pounds ($17,925 AUD) - a few grand over the cost of the MR2 base car.

It's expensive, the styling is questionable and the very concept of a Japanese sports car being dressed up as an American icon is repugnant to many, so what's the point? Well, let's put it this way: you'll be the only kid on the block with a mid-engined Mustang.

[Ride Cars, via Autoblog]

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  Daniel McCoey says,
  3 years ago

  Wow! just wow...
  
  If only they had a kit for R33 Skylines so as to turn them into 67' Lincoln Continental's
  
  The mind boggels.
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  Ches says,
  3 years ago

  Dear god. What an abomination.
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  Tony D says,
  3 years ago

  The Ferrari bodykit for the MR2 is about a billion times nicer (regardless of your feelings about it).
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  Lindsay says,
  3 years ago

  I like how it all goes wrong at the front. Classy stuff.
  
  Daniel McCoey: I like what you're thinking.
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  Luke Skywalker says,
  3 years ago

  Seriously, I can't believe anything other than a 17 year old would actually 'like' this. I'm going to go give my eyes a wash!!!!
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  WVB says,
  3 years ago

  now i could understand a few body tweaks to an old RA25- celica even though these are long in the tooth now but this abomination looks ridiculous and wastes a perfectly good MR2.
  would work well however in a dumb & dumber sequel..........
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  Andy Wana says,
  3 years ago

  One must ask where one could acquire the taste to like this car ...
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    Daniel McCoey says,
    3 years ago

    I think if you drank enough Budweiser and watched enough nascar, you'd get there.
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  kenny says,
  3 years ago

  a toyota mr2 will always be a toyota mr2, dont try to change that
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  Mitch from Auz! says,
  3 years ago

  well, what to say - the front looks like its had a fight with a pitbull and lost! the rest looks pretty damn nice!
  
  i think leave the pop up lights and the bonnet (that lip looks TERRIBLE!) a nice front bar to work with the wide guards and perhaps NO QANTAS AERO WING! ive seen planes with less wingspan!
  
  otherwise - bloody good job!
  
  would anyone agree?
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  HyperVerbal says,
  3 years ago

  That sh** is clean! I havn't ever seen anything like it and im pretty sure no one in the US is drivin around in one. It's unique. It looks intimidating. Buff up the engine and meet all the standard racing requirements and that would be one mean looking race car. If I could I'd buy 2. One for show ( make it look extra special), and one for everyday use ( breaking necks as I drive past XP). Damn that's a nice car.
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  Texas SVT MOD/Founder says,
  3 years ago

  I think... someone put allot of time into it and thats very notable... but DEAR GOD WHY?! If I ever purchased one I would cut the lip off the front end a bit and make sure not to have any decal/vinyl or badge of any sort that referenced it back to ford/shelby/mustang or even cary the GT logo lol. Though if it was satin black with 17" FR500's, Nittos, Red halo LED lights in the front, and a ehh... an 03-04 Cobra crate motor in it, maybe a T3550 trans... Hell I might even pay 25,000 USD for that LOL. but... probably not...
  
  ~ 97' GT (S Conversion) Azure Blue, 18x12 Nittos , Moser 9", Gun drilled full floating axles, ProTrans 900, SPEC Stage 4 clutch, Fidanza aluminum flywheel, 5.8L 4V stroker w/ 67mm Twins on a 10lb bottle, FoxLake heads, Re-Ground GT cams, Dual Sump in-tank pumps 255lph @ 98psi, MaximumMotorsports Suspension, AutoWeld ChromeMoly tig welded tubular chassis, 16 point cage. I love how it looks like a 12 second car and it actually runs mid 8.30's =) I'll let you Guess the quadruple digit HP and Tq.
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  JD says,
  3 years ago

  The Shelby Mustang GT350's and GT500's were an absolute masterpiece of a car. They cannot be immitated, as proven by this peice...psh. And for whoever drives this very confused "sports/muscle/tuner/custom/peice-o'-junk" car...buy a real mustang.
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  stephan says,
  3 years ago

  this is a waist of a good mustang. keep imports out of american classics... poor mustang
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  shiro says,
  3 years ago

  most people would frown upon putting an import into an american muscle, but i think you pulled it off pretty well
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  says,
  2 years ago

  Like it, but the front end needs some work to make it look right. The part where the lip meets the fender, above the headlight needs to be modified ASAP.
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  says,
  2 years ago

  WTF, that doesn't look like a REAL Mustang. That looks like the Shelby driven by Rally Vincent... in the anime, Gunsmith Cats. LOL