For customization whiz Beau Boeckmann, the trick isn’t about setting one’s vision faraway in the future nor is it about whipping up creations based on popular, up-to-date inspirations. Actually, for him, it’s exactly the opposite: going back to the roots and creating a niche in grounds airier and less explored.
Scythe, a customized GT Convertible 2008 Ford Mustang from the Galpin Auto Sports (GAS), gives us a peek on things to come for car customization. “With Scythe, we set out to showcase all of our unique fabrication abilities,” GAS President Beau Boeckmann said.
And this twist—which entails eponymously changing the spelling of a term that once revolutionized the autosphere and tinkering with motorist eye-candies like the 2008 GT Convertible Ford Mustang—paid off, particularly substantiated when Galpin Auto Sports, Boeckmann’s California-based shop, gained prominence courtesy of two seasons worth of exposure in MTV’s Pimp My Ride.
One of Boeckmann’s more famous creations is a tricked-out GT Convertible Mustang dubbed as Scythe. With its edgy structure and sleek finish, this 1960s-inspired purple wonder-on-wheels, which he considers a Kustom Kar, not a custom car, shockingly resembles the Batmobile. It serves as a solid testimony to Boeckmann’s brilliant penchant for finding inspiration in the likes of George Barris, designer of Bruce Wayne’s most famous vehicle, rather than those road-ragers featured in movies billed under the banner of The Fast and the Furious.
The “Galpinized” GT Convertible Mustang may not look as if it’s a Mustang since, as a blogger puts it, Boeckmann’s team “went completely nuts on it.” It boasts of a hand-made composite body, voice control (a talking onboard computer), and, props to drive-by-wire technology, dual retractable steering wheels. Scythe is powered by a twin-supercharged 1,005 horsepower engine.
The super-enhanced 2008 Ford Mustang GT Convertible is just one of Boeckmann’s many Kustom Kars. With a genius like him continuously shaping the face of Kustom Kulture, auto aficionados and the rest of the industry are given a treat to an avant-garde presentation of cars that isn’t just a result of an urge to be pompous and loud but is also deeply rooted on a principle that should always be considered when customizing a car: functionality.
