Here’s What Happened To The 1967 Mustang Fastback From “Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift”

Despite being portrayed in the film as a 1967 Mustang Fastback, the “Tokyo Drift” car mostly consisted of 1968 Mustangs, according to a YouTube video interview with its builder Sean Morris. Efforts were made to transform these Mustangs into a JDM star, including turning its exhaust sideways to mimic a style that was prominent in Japanese tuner sports cars. While the movie utilized numerous Mustangs for the role — one of which even had an incomplete set-up used strictly for still shots — only the Hero 1 car had a running Nissan engine. What’s more interesting, was how its performance was bolstered when using a Japanese twin-turbo inline six-cylinder motor in lieu of the bigger V8 engine.

The “Tokyo Drift” Mustang specs show an increased 340 horsepower, and was said to be not only faster than a regular ’67 Mustang Fastback but a stock Skyline R-34 as well (via R&T). This made it capable of doing a quarter-mile over a second quicker, with a speed that’s 13 mph faster than its stock counterpart. Although it was a pretty capable drift machine, the hero car never did any drifting on the set, as plain old stunt cars did all the action scenes. Viewers never got to hear the “Tokyo Drift” Mustang’s engine roar either, since the sounds used in the final race scene were dubbed from an older single-turbo RB25 GT-R instead. So, where did they all drift to next?