Vehicle restoration and modification play a key role in telling the stories of Fast & Furious characters. For The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, filmmakers cast a Ford Mustang alongside Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) as he searches for identity. In the film, Sean is gifted the Mustang in derelict condition and restores it for a climactic street race. Its unconventional engine swap—replacing the Mustang’s American engine with a Japanese RB26DETT—mirrors Sean’s journey from troubled outcast to respected member of the Japanese tuning community. This is the hero #1 car used to film the restoration sequences in the film.