If you were lucky enough to roam the unveil hall at Meguiar’s MotorEx 2024, you copped a ridiculously stacked roster of A1 builds. For us, it was impossible to pick a single stand-out, but few could match the sheer toughness of Marion Breski’s ’67 Mustang, fresh from Paul Sant and his merry band of maniacs at ProFlo Performance.

The blown coupe is Marion’s second collaboration with Paul, who had previously set the Western Sydney builder up with a street-brawler XY ute. “He did the motor and all the running gear in that – it’s got a 427,” Marion explains. “Paul does excellent work!”

Between that Falcon and this stonker, we wouldn’t blame you for assuming Marion bleeds blue. You’d be wrong, though, because if it weren’t for a certain plague a few years back, you’d probably be looking at a GM product draped in all this ProFlo finery.

“I was going to buy a Camaro in Melbourne, but then COVID hit and I couldn’t go down there,” Marion says. “Then this popped up! It was a good deal and wasn’t far from me, so it all worked out really well. It was done in an old kind of style – good, but nothing fancy.”

The car had been converted to right-hand drive, which suited Marion’s tastes, and it had what he describes as a “tough little motor”. With that said, it was nothing like the 370-cube, blown and injected Dart Windsor it packs now. “I had the car booked in for a mini-tub job, and this is what came out,” he laughs.

A small engine bay fire helped spur the build into something much greater than a set of fat rear meats. Once he decided to go all-out, Marion’s brief to the ProFlo lads was simple: “I just wanted to build a tough car that would go hard and still have the old-school style to it.”

Starting at the top of the mill, there’s a PFP Products billet injector hat, with eight 760cc injectors receiving 98 juice from twin Aeromotive pumps. Eight GM LS coil packs work with a crank trigger and MSD Cam Sync, all managed by a FuelTech FT500 ECU. A BDS 8/71 blower and intake combo and AFR Renegade heads round out the top end. The steel crank and H-beam rods are from Scat, with JE blower pistons and a custom hydraulic-roller cam finishing off the Dart block.

A manualised C4 takes the pain, turning a custom ProFlo-built sheet-metal nine-inch with a Truetrac centre, 3.5:1 gears and 35-spline axles. It’s slung in a four-link rear with Strange coil-overs, and wears four-piston, 335mm Wilwood disc brakes. Six-pots feature on the front, as do QA1 coil-overs.

“I was umm-ing and ahh-ing about going blown,” Marion admits. “I’d always wanted something blown, but I didn’t know how it’d go in this car.” On 10psi from the belt-driven air pump, the coupe nets 625hp at the hubs, and it’s safe to say Marion regrets nothing.

Marion agonised over this particular shade of grey, too. C&J Custom Paint put down ultra-smooth Range Rover Eiger Grey, though not without some last-minute intervention by Marion and Paul. “They were just about to do the paint, but then I made them stop and put the side vents in,” Marion laughs. Aside from the sharp honeycomb inserts, the body is pretty much stock.

Raw Hide Interiors knocked up a custom back seat to fit between the tubs and a scratch-built console, plus a new dash panel to fit the FT550 digital dash. Red leather and suede won out over black trim, which gave Paul and the ProFlo team something to riff on throughout the engine bay and undercarriage – from the colour-coded Speedflow fittings and blower butterflies to the brake calipers and coil springs.

Circling back to the tub job that brought the Muzzy to ProFlo in the first place, it helps get the car properly low over 20×10.5 Schott Mod 5 rear hoops. “I love the stance on it,” Marion smiles. “It looks awesome and tucks in really nicely.”

The Mustang had a huge visual impact at MotorEx last year and was undoubtedly a crowd favourite among the new rides. It’s most recent public appearacne was at Summernats 37, where it claimed a spot among the Top 20 Elite.

Marion admits he’s had very little chance to drive the car since it left ProFlo, so, like us, he’s looking forward to seeing it on Sydney’s streets and turning those tyres in anger.

MARION BRESKI
1967 FORD MUSTANG

THANKS
My family; Paul Sant and the team at ProFlo Performance; Mick at Raw Hide Interiors; Claude and James at C&J Custom Paint; Adam at JEM for the tune-up.