---
title: "Can a Junkyard 1984 Mustang Beat a New EcoBoost Mustang?"
description: "It's a story for the ages: Crappy old car plus junkyard parts, ingenuity and wild bravery combine in a new miniseries on The Drive."
date: "2017-04-06"
modified: "2017-04-13"
authors:
  - name: "Mike Spinelli"
    job_title: "VP of Content"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/mike-spinelli.md"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/video/9033/can-a-junkyard-1984-mustang-beat-a-new-ecoboost-mustang-gt"
categories:
  - "Ford News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "/CORBIN'S HIT SHOW"
  - "1980s"
  - "Mustang"
  - "Mustang SVO"
---

# Can a Junkyard 1984 Mustang Beat a New EcoBoost Mustang?

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When we first met Corbin Goodwin back in 2013, he was just a shaggy California kid who'd built a Mustang-powered Mazda RX-7, a car that looked like some tripping-balls stunt coordinator had commissioned it for *Mad Max V: The Fast And The Furious*.

As it turned out, the engineering student's ratrod Mazda with the "my other ride is your mom" sticker wasn't half bad to drive, and Matt Farah made that [Zero F\*\*ks Given RX7](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcjpXbMiCtg>) legendary on /TUNED. Now, Corbin's back and he has his own junkyard-built sports car miniseries on *The Drive*.

On episode one of ***/CORBIN'S HIT SHOW***, Corbin and partner in pick-a-part, Michael Elterman procure a strange, turbocharged-and-airbrushed 1984 Ford Mustang SVO and hatch a plot to use a combination of junkyard parts, a few new bits and sheer force of ill-will to unlock its hidden mechanical potential, and beat a new EcoBoost-powered Mustang in a racetrack challenge.

Hide your torque wrench somewhere safe, because Corbin and Mike are not effing around this time. What's that weird smell?

## Author
A sucker for Ford-era Jaguar XJs and glitchy, early-90s BMW V12s, Mike was the founding editor of car culture site Jalopnik, and a former editor-in-chief of 0-60. He's also a co-host of the TV show /DRIVE on NBC Sports, which can be seen from time to time on NBCSN, usually after midnight.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/mikespinelli>)  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/mikespin>)

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