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Ashley's new Mustang has a roll cage, but no engine

Mustang Lifestyle's surprise purchase is a 2018 GT rolling chassis destined for a return to drag racing.

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We Secretly Bought a Racecar for My Wife! (Ready for 8.50s)

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0:56Andrew introduces the 2018 Mustang GT rolling chassis, showing its roll cage, brakes and missing drivetrain.
3:11Ashley is blindfolded for the journey to her surprise; the reveal comes at 06:16.
8:35The empty engine bay turns the conversation toward powertrain choices and quarter-mile goals.
17:05Andrew and Jason inspect two donor Coyote engine setups, including a twin-turbo option.
21:28Andrew sets an early January target for taking Ashley and the completed build to the track.

Andrew puts Ashley in the passenger seat, drives a circle around the driveway to confuse her, then helps her into a different car altogether. The blindfold comes off inside her new Mustang. The engine will have to come later.

That is the welcome-home scene in "We Secretly Bought a Racecar for My Wife! (Ready for 8.50s)", the most-watched of Mustang Lifestyle's seven uploads this week. Ashley has been asking for another racecar for years, Andrew explains, following the departure of her previous Mustang GT. This replacement comes with a roll cage and drag-racing ambitions, but an empty engine bay.

"Does this mean I'm back on the channel?" Ashley asks. Viewers pick up that thread too: several mention seeing her again, while others debate engine combinations and suggest names for the car. The surprise drew about 9,500 views and carries by far the strongest daily momentum of the channel's videos right now.

Once the blindfold is put away, the workshop decisions begin. Andrew and Jason examine two donor Coyote setups, including a Gen 3 paired with a 10R80 transmission and a mixed-generation twin-turbo option. Andrew's aim is quarter-mile runs in the mid-eight- to nine-second range, not a performance the unfinished car has already delivered.

Elsewhere, the week took in Daytona International Speedway, GT500 repairs, Raptor R wheels and a question about keeping Lamborghini-style doors. Daily channel viewing is running at roughly twice its usual level, although the subscriber total stayed unchanged over the week. Among similarly sized motoring channels, Driveway Finds is also seeing above-usual daily viewing, while RamblinAround is quieter than its norm.

For Ashley's build, Andrew sets an early target of January to get back to the track. First comes choosing what fills that conspicuously empty engine bay.

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What viewers say

og member here its amazing seeing ash again!
@cpreviews8731See it on YouTube
Congrats Ashley! Very nice car!
@timr6290See it on YouTube
That car would look nice red with a nice spoiler and a coyote supercharged
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for 1...so good to see Ash in vids again for me..2 cant wait to see what yall do to it....love the work Andrew you the man!!!!
@Jmervin1See it on YouTube
Nice race car Andrew!
@MorbidZ06See it on YouTube
That is awesome for Ashley, go with the Frankenstein twin turbo's Coyote motor, it seems more setup for racing.
@paulhudgins5120See it on YouTube
Nice work
@nikoniko9251See it on YouTube
5.2build with 10 speed since she waited so long
Out of the 2 I'd go gen 3 setup that's the beauty of the 18+ cars
@mstarn00See it on YouTube
Charon for the name, you will need to look up its meaning if you don't already know it
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