When you think of drifting, I’ll bet that you don’t instantly think of old-school, American muscle cars. I’ll even go as far to bet that the Fast and the Furious style rice-burners probably pop into your head. But 2010 Formula Drift Champion, Voughn Gittin is changing that with his Team Need for Speed ‘69 Mustang RTR-X. Thanks to a new YouTube video, we can take a look at what went into creating this amazing car.

Gittin debuted the RTR brand at the national SEMA conference in 2009. Upon talking with his crew, they decided to make a project car. The base of the car is a donor ‘69 Mustang due to Gittin’s constant want to modify such a car. The Mustang takes influences from the classic American muscle car era as well as Japanese drift cars. Andy Blackmore, designer for the Need for Speed Mustang, says in the video that the idea was to “marry muscle and drift” in one car.

In the video, Gittin expresses that he didn’t want to go with strictly a muscle car nor did he want to turn a muscle car into an import for the project. Instead, he wanted to incorporate subtleties from all different car styles across the world in the Mustang project tastefully.

After the car was designed, it was built every step of the way on paper first and followed Gittin’s list of parts that he wanted. Eric and Mark Kozeluh of Twins Turbo Motorsports were entrusted with taking the Mustang from something that looked good, to a well oiled machine complete with robust components throughout. With the car needing to withstand the thrashings of the drift course, extra attention was paid to making the car as sound and solid as possible.

In addition to the development of the Mustang, some drifting in the car is featured in the video. When you see the Mustang doing what it does best, it is obvious that nothing was compromised in its creation. Any car that can go into a drift at 90mph is one magnificent piece of machinery.

For a jaw-dropping experience, check out the video of the impressive Mustang RTR-X and the mighty team that came together to build such a fine piece of art. We look forward to seeing the Mustang RTR-X strutting its stuff on a drag course in the near future.