Help me name a project car.
 

We're excited about this one. Most of the time our customers want us to make their classic car drive like their new Lambo....that's a pain in the ass to do.

THIS customer, however, wants a MUSCLE car, not an exotic car in a Muscle car's skin. He also wants one of those clever car nicknames.

Here's the details:

The car: '66 Mustang Coupe. It's getting a Normally Aspirated 351W bored out to a 438. It's all muscle car, no fancy electronics and luxury bullshit. No forced induction. All Motor. The color scheme will likely be a Candy Apple Green with black accents. Black Leather interior with Green stitching. Here's the important part: Skulls and Bones. The customer wants ghost skulls and subtle skull/bone accents.

The Customer: Lives out in the middle of nowhere. Has a vast array of guns and ammunition. He drives a race truck and owns a Motocross race team....his children are the riders. The kind of guy with dead animals hanging on his walls and a room dedicated to thousands and thousands of dollars worth of guns. Fancies himself a "man's man" and wants an extreme, in your face Muscle car. All brawn.

This is still a high dollar car that will have some real unique, fancy stuff in it. It's just nto going to be designed to suit our typical, old rich guy that wants a Classic Mustang to drive like his new Exotic.

So knowing what you know, help me come up with a good name for it that goes with the theme of the car and what the customer is into.

Try to keep with the Skull and Crossbones kinda theme.

Death Trap

Is he in California? Which part?

The Highway Hunter

Gang Green

America **** Yeah

Since its a '66, how about a slight modification to that....

First Generation **** Yeah!

Archimedes

Rotten Apple

Ted Nugent is a pussy

No. New Mexico.

I like that one.

Hmm, skull and crossbones theme? Mustang?

Lee Ia-croak-a.

Pony Boy

Flirting with Disaster

Death Toll 66

Horse Power.

The Hulk!

Green Goblin

Heh.

Elway

We've been bouncing around "bone stock".

Idk....needs a good name.

Amenaza

Savage.....hunters could be considered Savages ... Savage is a maker of guns ... Hard to be more manly than a Savage. Savages also leave bones and skulls laying around

I guess Head Hunter would work too since he likes to hunt and they are also really mean.

This.

Road Kill

Chile Verde

My project car (77 Trans Am) is nicknamed ****ing Bitch. I scream her name, especially when I rake a knuckle or two taking parts off her

Chili Pepper

Heisenberg

The One Who Knocks

Tin shell

The Jolly Roger

The Jolly Rancher

just call it Route 66.

Toxic Stallion

Trigger

Stone Cold

Just call it like it is.

Horrible driver

LMAO

I was going to say just another Stang but thought I woudl be nice.

Nah, it won't be. It's getting $20K worth of suspension and brakes.

The build budget for this exceeds $150K. It'll be far from another 'Stang.

Trophy Wife Substitute

I figured if you guys were working on it then it will be nice. Though there are probably a shit ton of 150K Stangs out there just like Camaros.

Went to my interior guy yesterday and he has a dude from Houston bringing him a 69' Camaro with an LS7 to do a fiberglass custom dash set up. Sounds just like the Ring Brothers car.

My engine builder (builds race engines for Trophy trucks and more) just dropped off the invoice for the Engine build.

$17,945.37 in parts....My cost, not retail. Just for the parts. That doesn't include assembly.

Customer didn't even bat an eye. Must be nice to roll in that kinda $$$.

I got a 12K quote for my interior and tried not to bat an eye. Yes it must be nice. I wouldn't know.

Oh man.....

I felt bad for the guy. He had it in a shop that had it for 7 years. 7 Freaking years. We rolled it off the trailer two weeks ago.....man....what a freaking mess. Just awful.

The delivery driver was telling me all about this awesome paint job blah blah blah....we rolled it off the trailer....what a ****ing train wreck.

Countless runs in the paint....fish eyes.....the end caps for the decklid were missing....the Air brush artwork was hokie as all hell. It was just awful...and to make matters worse....the previous shop let the car sit out in the rain....so the car was covered in dirt and crap.

I genuinely felt bad for the guy...the fact that someone had the nerve to look him in the eye and take his money for such awful, awful work.

I had to tell him that he spent $30K in paint and body....and we're going to have to strip the car down to metal again because the paint wasn't salvageable...it was laid on way too thick..so thick that it almost filled some of the natural body lines behind the rear windshield....the paint had far too many runs in it to save, and the Bondo was cracking on the quarter panel.

Man, we opened the up the trunk, and there was bondo seeping through the holes on the quarter panel and into the trunk area.....

Flugenschlagen.

I spent a shit ton of $ on body and paint. My car is black, jet ****ing tuxedo black, and it looks great. Its actually better than great IMO its awesome.

I did a ton of research before picking my painter because I wanted it right even if it cost more. I found work he did and picked him off those cars.

You can waste a ton of money so easy by not doing your homework.

Its like the old saying -

A good tattoo is not cheap and cheap tattoo is not good.


Same goes for paint, body, interior and engine work.

Good, yeah that's awesome. Camaro, you said? It's good that you did your homework....a lot of people don't and they end up throwing their money away.

It's also very hard to find good, reliable fabricators and painters. We out source our cars for paint and body these days, since we've downsized over the last few years we no longer have the space for a paint booth or a body shop. It was hard to find a guy we could trust and were lucky to find the guy we found.

You mentioned the Ring Brothers...man the work they do is out of this world....i had the privilege of meeting those guys a few times at SEMA. Jim and Mike....two of the nicest guys you'll ever meet in the industry. I met Chip Foose once too....he stopped by with his T.V crew while strolling through SEMA to check out one of our builds....really cool guy as well. He had nothing but flattering things to say.

Caitlyn

Crab apple

green sardine

Death rides a Horse

Revelation 6

Revelation 66

Skullduggery

Rut '66

Money Pissed Away

Pony Car of the Apocalypse.

Ford Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

heh, that's pretty cool.

The Bad Apple

No not a Camaro I have 65' Chevy II.

There is some crazy shit going on with shops like Ring Brothers, Ironworks, The Roadster Shop etc.....

I'm going to SEMA this year with my brother who works for a shop in Florida. I cant wait.

The Foalinator

Filly Fister

Bitchin Jenny

Pegasus Maximus

Boltergeist


Carmagedon.

Wasted Green

The Skull ****er

Stang Green

Slow Pony

Honestly the answer to this one is pretty simple....because it works in many ways....with the green, the skulls, and the 'man's man' the choice is obvious.....

Pale Rider

While you may think the 4th horseman of the Apocalypse's color(i.e. Death) is a pale white or no color....classically it's actually 'greenish'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_H...the_Apocalypse

The official color of the Pale Horse is 'khlōros' which is the green of new growth.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%8...81%CF%8C%CF%82

With the pale rider you get a mustang tie in....a skull tie in....a match for green....and as an added bonus a ****ing Clint Eastwood tie in! Plus who wouldn't want their muscle car to be known as 'Death'.

Snot Rocket </BR></BR> Post some pics.

creeper

Mean green. If you don't post pics you aren't human.

Frankenstang

Holy Diver or Holy Driver

Just to be clear I wasn't knocking you guys in that post, just the car. I have never driven an early mustang that I thought drove very well.

Mystic Mustang

Mystic Metal

Tails from the Crypt

Bonehead

The muscle bone

Greenis Envy

Bruce Gender

Hulkbuster!

**** you. That's what you should name this damned car.

Or project skulls and mayhem!

Robert Paulson