Four-Links – mid-engine Mustang, Watson’s Space Age, Mathis 666, Volugrafo
* As Mac’s Motor City Garage showed us this week, Ford engineers in the late 1960s wanted to see what would happen if they mounted a Mustang’s engine behind its seats rather than under the hood. As it turned out, not much – performance and handling remained about the same – so Ford scrapped it.
* Larry Watson never finished his Space Age custom Ford Econoline pickup, but that doesn’t mean we can’t at least get an idea of what Watson had in mind, based on a batch of photos of Space Age that Custom Car Chronicle assembled this week.
* We’ve taken a few looks at the Mathis VL 333, but none of the successor car, the 666. In fact, we hadn’t yet seen a photo of the 666 until The Petrol Stop this week published several shots and a brief write-up.
* Probably the European equivalent of the King Midget, the Volugrafo 46 Bimbo was intended as an around-town runabout, though apparently a sport version added a second engine (for a whopping two cylinders total). Banovsky’s Car of the Day has more on the Bimbo.
* Finally, what do you get when you swap an LS6 Chevrolet small-block V-8 into a Porsche 914? A bull-ridin’ rip-snortin’ experience, apparently.