Sleeper Eleanor Mustang Hides a Secret Weapon in the Trunk
We want to see what this mysterious, bottled 1967 Mustang Eleanor can really do on the track but the owner isn’t talking.
YouTube has channels for everything. Whatever subculture you can think of, chances are there’s an online community happily posting videos out there. Rory May from the YouTube channel Dirty Smith , who is a blacksmith at Dragon Forge. And while his videos are a true combination of old-school metalworking and art, what’s nabbed our attention is his recent encounter with a 1967 Ford Mustang Eleanor clone.
The video starts in an unnamed garage, and Rory asks a guy named Shannon, presumably the ‘Stang’s owner about the car. It’s a damn-near perfect Eleanor clone, right down to the Shelby badging, grille-mounted fog lights, and topped off with Texas “EL NOR” license plates. Surprisingly, Shannon doesn’t seem too forthcoming. “Tell ya about it?” he asks. “Uh, 428 super cobra jet, dual quad, nitrous-injected… yeah. I don’t know, that’s it. they built it to mimic the movie car.”
Not exactly inspiring words, Shannon, but that’s okay. The car more than makes up for it. The big block V8 looks immaculate, with finned Cobra headers and massive intake. In the trunk, there’s a giant fuel cell and a big bottle of nitrous. With an Eleanor this clean, it probably isn’t driven in anger like the Gone in 60 Seconds movie car was, but it sure looks like it could be.
And then, after just over a minute of Mustang goodness, it’s back to metalworking. Not that it isn’t cool. It’s just that, well, after a glimpse of that Eleanor clone, it was hard to focus on copper countertops.
Other than the Texas plate, we don’t know much about this Eleanor. Here’s hoping some intrepid Mustang YouTuber reaches out to the owner and puts together a profile on it.
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