Who let this man near a welder?
Think 2000 Ford Mustang Convertible and images of a drop-top pony car with a V6 under the hood, good enough for cruising the PCH, comes to mind. But according to Twitter user @BMac102, that idealized image of a Mustang was not what he saw at this Lowest parking lot somewhere in California. This Ford Mustang Convertible with New Edge styling was transformed into a bonafide work truck with tow hitch, trailer, lockable tool boxes, and OSHA mandated water cooler.
Check out the Ford Mustang ‘vert that’s been turned into a job site working machine in his tweet below.
Convertible Mustang turned into work truck. @TheSmokingTire pic.twitter.com/3fc7M5PR3r
— Carls BFF (@BMac102) April 25, 2020
First, it takes a certain man to turn his 2000 Ford Mustang convertible into a work truck, it’s the man who doesn’t have the dinero to get a proper work truck and, safety aside, would instead use what he has parked in his driveway, in this case a mid-2000s pony car.
Then there’s the trailer hitch welded to the frame and running straight through the bumper. Aesthetics was not a priority.
According to Ford’s owners manual, these Mustangs are tow-rated up to 1,000 pounds. Eye-balling it, this is a 7×20 trailer attached that weighs well over 2,000 pounds empty. Fully loaded, these trailers can handle an additional 8,000 pounds if properly tied down.
I’m betting this ‘stang’s only has the 3.9L V6, good enough for 190 HP and 220 lb-ft, a reliable and torquey power unit but not engineered to do some serious work.
Directly behind the driver’s head is a steel frame, there to keep the lockable tool boxes from lopping off your melon in the event of a crash. At least some safety was baked in.
The pièce de résistance is the water cooler hanging off the side. This Mustang is questionably road legal but G-d forbid he’s not going to be non-OSHA compliant at the job site (OSHA requires job site management to provide water to workers for free.)
If you’re driving from Lowes to the job site in town and back, I’m OK with this. But this Mustang owner should not even consider bringing this monstrosity out on the freeway. Trailer sway? Proper braking? The poor thing can’t handle it.
I’m seriously considering letting the CHP in on this Franken-‘vert.
