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Ruffian Cars
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California · United States
The Ruffian Mustangs are road-race-flavoured customs that made fastback Mustangs cool with the Porsche crowd.
Ruffian Cars, founded by designer Chris Ashton, builds Mustang fastbacks and other American classics with a European road-racing sensibility: wide arches, motorsport stance, modern suspension and drivetrains, and a designer's eye for proportion rather than chrome-and-billet excess. The original Ruffian Mustang became an internet phenomenon and spawned a series of commissions. It represents the newer school of American builds: muscle cars set up to corner: which travels well with an audience raised on Singer and Alfaholics.
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The cars and their builders on film, embedded from YouTube.
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