---
title: "This 1967 Mustang with a Corvette Powertrain Sits on a Throne of Lies"
description: "This custom hot rod is sacrilege and we love it."
date: "2017-10-07"
modified: "2017-10-07"
authors:
  - name: "Eric Brandt"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/eric-brandt"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/14947/this-1967-mustang-with-a-corvette-powertrain-sits-on-a-throne-of-lies"
categories:
  - "Builds"
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Build"
  - "c5"
  - "Canada"
  - "Corvette"
  - "Coupe"
  - "Engine Swap"
  - "Ford"
  - "Hot Rod"
  - "LS1"
  - "Mustang"
  - "sports car"
  - "vintage"
---

# This 1967 Mustang with a Corvette Powertrain Sits on a Throne of Lies

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/10/mustang-kyle.jpg>)
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Canadian fabricator Kyle Scaife has created a monster. He did what would be considered unthinkable to many purists by mixing the genes of Ford and Chevrolet’s most iconic performance cars into one [hot rod](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/1760/oh-look-a-saab-powered-ford-hot-rod-drift-car>) that looks like nothing else on the road.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ04Kf3loUv

It started with a 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda that Scaife worked on in the shop where he works. It sat on bags and had a [Viper V-10 engine](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/14740/this-bmw-m3-e46-is-packing-a-viper-v-10>). It was in the shop around the time Ken Block’s Gymkhana 7 came out which stars an all-wheel drive 1965 Mustang. These two custom cars inspired Scaife to [do a build](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/14386/this-1966-lincoln-continental-with-a-shelby-gt500-v-8-is-an-all-american-badass>) of his own.

He set out to look for [something cool](<https://www.thedrive.com/muscle-cars/4242/the-buyers-guide-to-vintage-american-muscle-cars>) and wasn’t dead set on a Mustang. The car that ended up working for the body was a 1967 Mustang with no engine or transmission. The powertrain for the build came from an unlikely donor, a 1999 C5 [Chevy Corvette](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/14612/this-plymouth-duster-rat-rod-sits-on-a-c6-corvette-chassis>) with a 5.7-liter LS1 V8 with a salvage title that Scaife picked up for just $6,000. Scaife says he’s planning on doing some modification to the stock LS1 engine at some point. He says he’s considering one or two turbochargers or just bolt-on mods.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BX0azsYl1FD

He decided to buy a whole car rather than just an engine so it could provide other necessary parts like a transmission, wheels, suspension, etc. Had he just bought a Ford Coyote V8 engine, it would have cost him about the same as a whole Corvette.

Scaife says he’s a fabricator, not a mechanic, so the mechanical work was more of a challenge than the body work for him. The car sits on a custom tube frame designed and built by Scaife. It was a learning experience and the end result is a unique build that appears to be exactly what he was going for.

Follow [@mustangkyle on Instagram](<https://www.instagram.com/mustangkyle/>) for more. What are your thoughts on this crossbreed?

https://youtube.com/embed/pTX_noUGmCQ

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/brandt004>)