Ford Mustang X-1
Just looking at the pictures of the U.S. Air Force’s Ford Mustang X-1 and Dodge Challenger Vapor makes you realize that they must have found a very crazy tuning company to help them out on this project. Well, they did: Galpin Auto Sports, that is perhaps most famous for turning clunkers into cool cars on MTV’s “Pimp My Ride.” Well, consider these pony cars pimped.
The U.S. Air Force Mustang X-1 has a cockpit. Not in the way that a regular car’s driver’s seat and gauges is described as a cockpit, but like a jet fighter with an ejection seat. The engine pumps out 500 nitrous-fed horses and that power is put to the road through the biggest tires on the market today: 345/45R20s. They had to widen the stock Mustang by six inches on both sides in the rear in order to actually fit the tires.
