John Wick, Your New Carbon-Fiber 1969 Mustang Is Ready

It steps into the 2025 SEMA Show with advanced carbon-fiber body panels and big-block power, wrapped in a shape that's more Ford factory than cartoon caricature. Though the front fenders might walk the wrong side of that line. Let's take a closer look.

8.5-Liter Big Block Under The Carbon Hood
Trick Rides starts the build with a chassis from Roadster Shop. The custom frame gets an independent front suspension with a parallel four-link setup in the back. It has Roadster Shop's bigger sway bars to reduce body roll, and it has Fox coilover shocks to keep the tires on the pavement and the ride compliant. Continental ExtremeContact Force tires on three-piece Forgeline wheels give the car a wide footprint and plenty of traction.

Scorched will need that traction thanks to the beast under the hood. The V8 is a Boss Nine from Kasse Racing Engines. The fully-built engine isn't a 429 ci. plant like the Ford original. Instead, it displaces a massive 520 cubic inches, or 8.5 liters. Trick Rides doesn't quote a power figure, but the engine should make 800 horsepower and 700 pound-feet of torque.

That's a big, heavy engine, but the body panels should help keep the weight down. The original Ford steel has been completely replaced with Trick Rides' new carbon parts. The company says it is aerospace-grade pre-preg carbon fiber, and it adds strength while cutting weight from the car.

Stopping the carbon 'Stang are new brakes from Baer. Six-piston front calipers and four-piston rear calipers clamp down on beefy rotors to turn all that speed into heat when it's time to slow down.

Fully-Custom Interior For This Modernized Pony
Award-winning auto interior designers, TMI Products, built the cabin for this Mustang. The company has built plenty of SEMA show cars like this, and offers interiors for loads of classic and modern muscle cars. Even for UTVs.

Scorched gets TMI's new high-back chairs. The heavily bolstered seats look modern but not too high-tech for the rest of the car. They also look a lot more supportive than the factory chairs and have slots for a five-point harness.

A carbon fiber steering wheel and custom gauges help finish off the interior details. Plus, it has handcrafted door panels and the cue ball knob for the Tremec T-56 six-speed pokes prominently out of the handmade center console.

"From the incredible partners we’ve chosen to work with to the aerodynamics of the carbon fiber, Scorched is the result of adding modern engineering to a timeless platform. We set out to build a car that not only looks incredible but performs at a level that rivals today’s high-performance machines."

- Trick Rides co-owner Jarred Morris.

Not Just A Show Car
Trick Rides wants to make this a limited-production run of cars. It plans to build 20, with owners able to customize details like the paint and even the engine. It lists a supercharged Coyote-powered car as starting from $429,000 on the company's site. The only thing we'd change is the front wheel and tire combo. They're sitting way too far recessed into the massive fenders for a car like this.

You can see this Mustang at the 2025 SEMA Show, running November 4-7. CarBuzz has boots on the ground, so stick around for more debuts and cool cars straight from the show floor.