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ever since we built the ronster in 1997 many mustang owners have admired it in letters and in person yes it may be a little extreme for most but if you want to take a ride on the wild side then we have the kit for you the ronster was featured on the cover and in a 5 page article in the september 1997 issue of mustang fords magazine since then mustang owners from all over the world have contacted mustangs plus and asked for information on how to build a ronster for themselves the ronster kit available only through mustangs plus contains all the parts necessary to convert any 1965 to 1968 mustang coupe into this terrific looking 2-seater mustang roadster after installation of the ronster kit you can build the rest of the car the way you want to by using our fiberglass hoods valances and trunk lids to get the look you re after other options such as tires and wheels seats steering wheels engine and transmission combinations suspension packages and more can be chosen to help you build t
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the by mustangs plus ronster shown here with our new restomod hood ronster kits will fit all 1965 -1968 coupes while at an arizona saac shelby american automobile club track event at phoenix international raceway ben j smith the original designer and chief engineer of the 1957-1959 ford retractables jim smart the editor of mustangs and fords magazine and i were standing in the pits checking out a couple of corvette roadsters both corvettes had full roll cages in them and they gave me an idea how about building a mustang roadster by cutting the top off a 1965 coupe and using the mustang retractable under body strengthening kit the area behind the seats would have to have a cover made for it because there wasn t anything like it available but that would be no problem both ben and jim liked the idea and offered to help me with the project ben said he would be glad to help design the cover jim said that it would definitely be a feature car for the magazine a couple of months later after f
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accessories mustang roadsters could be built a 1,000 different ways and hopefully open up a new market for people to build a mustang that hadn t considered building one before the street rodders so the work began george and i installed the chassis strengthening kit to a 1965 c code mustang coupe shell that i bought from the local scrap yard don t worry it was all ready scheduled to be crushed in the next couple of days so we actually saved a mustang a few days later ben flew in from phoenix and he and i designed the tonneau cover for the rear seat area it turned into quite a production taking great care to leave all of the trunk area intact so that there would be a usable trunk and no weakening in that area we actually built a tonneau cover onto the car and then made a fiberglass mold so that we could produce as many tonneau covers as we wanted we then broke the original tonneau cover off the car and fitted the first one that had been made from the mold about this time the ronster na
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the ronster s day out by don tellyer people are always asking us if we ever drive the ronster well as these pictures show it does get a little road time now and then we changed the cars around in the showrooms recently and while the cool ronster was out of the building ron got the itch to take it out for a little spin i tagged along and shot a few photos of ron s little half-hour excursion with its newly painted and installed r2s hood the ronster practically screamed drive me 2 on the road knowing that ron is a racer at heart you shouldn t be surprised that the first thing he did was make a beeline for the nearest windy road located about a mile or so from the shop 3 6 9 it was a great day for a drive too just one more stoplight to go and we re home free finally a stretch of open road ron put the pedal down and the ronster through its paces it s 85° sunny and breezy does it get any better than cruising in an open top roadster 4 7 10 jammin down ijams road hey i m not making it up th
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