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    Mustang II Conversion for the 1957-1959 Ford

    Mar 03, 2021 6 minutes
    BY BRIAN BRENNAN
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY
    THE AUTHOR

    There are any number of reasons why you might want to rebuild the independent front suspension on your 1957-1959 Ford. However, in our street rod world the reasons and means to swap out old and tired independent front suspensions are readily available. And that brings us to the installation of a Fatman Fabrications (FF) Mustang II frame stub.

    The 1957 Ford we followed in this story has the FF Mustang II frame stub that was installed at Kugel Komponents (KK) while Kev Elliott of Kev’s Rod & Custom (around the corner from KK) finished up the many sheetmetal projects both inside the engine compartment and elsewhere to make this Ford a driver. Originally the car had other work performed and a Ford Y-block was positioned. About a year later the car came back to KK to have a Kaase Boss Nine installed. Well, that massive engine wasn’t going to fit inside a stock engine compartment.

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