“We literally shipped the car out the night before,” Pericak sighs. “We didn’t tell them it was a Mustang,” admits Pericak, “only that it was a prototype.”
Law-enforcement agencies along the route were informed beforehand that the truck was coming through carrying a Ford prototype and that, if the truck were stopped, to not open it and reveal the secret inside. The car would move directly from Michigan to Nevada in one of DST’s secure covered vans. To get the Mustang painted and onto the set, Pericak contracted with DST Industries. I had to promise that I would personally manage this and that nothing would get out.” That we had a way to secure the vehicle and that this wouldn’t get out into the media and the real world. We had to sit with the PR team and convince them this was a good idea. We had four or five people dedicated to scrounging and getting parts. “We had to get parts that were worthy of being on the big screen,” says Pericak. READ MORE: 2015 Ford Mustang: In-Depth with the Team that Made It HappenĬalling in favors, cajoling reluctant suppliers, and building some pieces with their own hands, the finished Need For Speed car was coming together. “The only time we had done that was on the styling model in the studio and that car had never, ever seen the sun.” “At that point we had not fully dressed out a car,” he says. Plans began in February 2013 with securing a prototype equipped with an EcoBoost V-6-and then swapping that for a GT prototype with the 5.0-liter Coyote V-8-while Pericak’s team began assessing what else was needed. We turned it into the car we wanted it to be, and that was a significant amount of work.” It’s not easy building a car that looks like a “job one” production car when virtually all of its parts are still being developed. It was a prototype without the right graining on many of the parts and a hodge-podge of stuff. “We stole it from the calibration team,” explains Pericak of the particular car that would become a sort-of star.
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