00:00From the ground up, everything about this car is aggressive, vicious, exceptional.
00:11It should be able to do somewhere around 230 miles an hour.
00:17It's just a completely different world.
00:19It's like this epic event every time you take this car out.
00:29If you're planning to make a big impression at one of the largest car shows on the planet,
00:34you're going to need an impressive machine.
00:37This vehicle certainly is that.
00:39And it's currently in the care of Sean, owner of High End Vehicle Storage and concierge
00:45facility Autopia.
00:47The owner of this car wanted to take a car to SEMA and he wanted it to be something that
00:52everyone would talk about.
00:55He started with not a great 65 Mustang.
00:58It needed a ton of work, metal work.
01:01It needed everything.
01:02And that was the idea, was to start with a low-dollar donor car.
01:05You weren't ruining a car that should have been preserved.
01:08The most expensive element is all the hand fabrication work that was done to the body.
01:14Honestly, parts just sitting on the floor of your garage, not putting anything together
01:20yet.
01:21You're already in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
01:24All the internals were rebuilt.
01:25It's all forged stuff.
01:28It's a compound-charged car with a supercharger, also twin turbos.
01:33You talk about 10,000 hours of work that went into this car to ultimately create what we
01:38call Vicious Mustang.
01:40This quest for perfection led to a final price tag of $1 million.
01:46And you can forget material comforts.
01:49This vehicle is a no-expense-spared, performance-focused beast.
01:55This car has no air conditioning in it.
01:59It has no heater in it.
02:00It has no stereo in it.
02:02It has very little heat treatment or sound deadening.
02:06So the sounds you hear are incredible.
02:21This splitter here is all metal.
02:24We've got cool intakes here to bring air.
02:27The forge-line wheels fit this car perfectly.
02:32Even little details like this where they went, instead of leaving the brake, they went with
02:36Vicious on it.
02:38And they matched the paint exact to this, which this color is called Vicious Titanium
02:43Silver.
02:44They actually gave it its own name.
02:47The bubble on top of the hood, that's for the supercharger.
02:52It's a costly piece of equipment going on under the hood.
02:57The interior on this car, again, everything was race-themed, but there's still some beauty
03:03in here.
03:10I love the simplicity of the interior.
03:13I love the simplicity down here as far as the buttons go.
03:18It's some wonderful leather.
03:20Instead of having a traditional gauge cluster, it's a Motec onboard management system.
03:25You can program the screen to show you whatever you want if you just wanted to have tach or
03:30tach and speed.
03:31And that's something you'll see in most race cars.
03:34It's a sequential six-speed transmission from Emco, very similar to what you see in
03:40a lot of GT3 race cars.
03:43But rather than wanting to shift with a stick, the option was to go with paddles.
03:48The shifts are programmed at two and a half milliseconds, which is just extreme.
03:52By the time you're letting go of the paddle, your head's already gone like that and the
03:57shift has already happened.
03:59You barely lose any RPM.
04:02You'll go through the gears really fast.
04:05It's like this epic event every time you take this car out for a drive.
04:10We haven't tested zero to 60 speed.
04:13We're guessing it should be in the high twos, 2.8, 2.9, somewhere around there.
04:19It's detuned 30% from what the max would be on this car.
04:23It's making 1,003 horsepower at the rear wheels.
04:26If we completely uncorked the tune, we could probably get somewhere in the neighborhood
04:30of about 1,250 at the wheel.
04:32Honestly, 1,000 horsepower at the rear wheels, a lot for a street car.
04:35But it just had to be in that power range.
04:39Top speed, we don't know yet because we haven't actually had enough open road for it.
04:43It should be able to do somewhere around 230 miles an hour.
04:48It really is a radical, extreme race car.
04:50That was the intent and that's what was accomplished with this.
04:55This is not a, hey, let's go for a comfortable drive at any time, even at speed limit, just
05:01cruising in this thing.
05:03It's always extreme.
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