Cool! My first was a black '88 5.0L that I also bought new... That one was a "Stripper" with no air or stereo... But it did come with an antenna and speakers.. Oh, and I did get the power windows.. I believe those were standard equipment in '88.. The only no cost option I ordered was the 3.08 gears out back and the Good Year Gatorbacks. (That was a mistake).. With the "A Plan" it only cost me $10,400 out the door... Talk about a great bang for the buck, it was worth it! Buddy of mine sold me an am/fm stereo for 10 bucks and I had tunes... I had that car for 2 years before some idiot t boned me on the p***enger side and wasted the car... It was his fault for running a red light...
This kind of ties in both here and the Day 2 subject. Didnt get my First Fox until after I graduated. 84 GT Hatch, bought from original owner in '98. (I still have it, but I am parting it out). Carb'd when everyone had the EFI. Swapped in a cam "Fuzzy" Crow, crew chief for Doug Mangrum at the time, recommended, 70' 302 heads ported and polished, stealth intake.. etc. All cl***ic speed tricks. Later paid a guy to paint the engine compartment, found out he was street racing it at night. After that I was kind of a laughing stock for trusting the guy in the first place, and everyone knew MY car as the one HE raced.. so my love for it died. Recently bought my HS dream car. 85 Jalapeño red T-top GT. Will be swapping alot of parts from the 84, as well as some recent stuff. the idea is to make it like I would have wanted in the late 90's. as previously stated, won't be the fastest, but that isn't the point anymore. My other Mustang is a 97 GT... My wife called it "our date car" because it was what was out when we were in HS..
I ran BFG drag radials on my 95 exclusively. Always had to be prepared, you know? Anyway, my daily driver at the time was a 93 T-bird. I was having an issue with the T-bird so I had to drive my 95 to work one Winter afternoon at the hospital on the 3-11 shift. It was unny when I left home and the weather man said all was good, so I didn't think anything of it. I come out after my shift and there's an inch of snow on the ground and it's actively snowing. You think the gatorbacks were bad in the rain? I lived about 10 minutes away so i said the hell with it and drove home. No way I was leaving my car at work overnight to get broken into or messed with. The whole way home was a gradual uphill drive. I made it home in about 30 minutes going about 10mph with the back end stepped out and spinning the whole way. I got lucky with the lights mostly but I did blow a red with nobody around because I wasn't about to lose my momentum. This would have been almost 25 years ago. Jesus.
I had a 91 LX hatch for a while that I enjoyed, but never accomplished all I wanted to do with it. I had searched a while in late 2007-early 2008 for a notch and couldn't find one clean enough to buy, and ended up getting this LX hatch in the summer of '08 with just a hair under 66k miles on it. It had a lot of bolt-ons on a stock long block 5.0, T5, 3.73, exhaust, a little bit of suspension. I put Maximum Motorsports LCAs, subframe connectors, and a strut tower brace to compliment the MM CC plates it had when I got it. It had H&R springs and Tokico blue shocks/struts. I put some shorty headers and settled on a BBK catted H pipe so it would rev like the off-road pipe, had torque like the stock H pipe, and would p*** the state sniffer inspection it was still subject to at the time. I put the old school March Ram Air on it, C&L MAF, electric fan, pulleys. Found a cheap set of Drag Lites and a friend who worked at a tire shop got me a good deal on drag radials. The car didn't need them, but it looked cool. At the time I thought I would eventually get around to some horsepower mods and need them. Had more ambitions than money, so the engine stayed unmolested. Later, I had a little money but had lost motivation to mess with it. Did some Friday night test & tunes at the drag strip in Baytown, and it ran 13.80s at 100 with a piss poor 60' thanks to my launching... LOL Had a good group of local friends with newer and cl***ic Mustangs. Had lots of fun with that group of friends at the Saturday cruise nights, drag strip Friday nights, and later everyone got into the road racing thing through the driving school events at MSR Houston. I did one of those, had a blast. The car did a lot better than I imagined it would. Ended up moving to the other side of Houston which made the social aspect difficult when everyone else was at least an hour away. The local cruise on the north side had a 1979 cut off at that time, so I couldn't park it inside there (they've since made it 25 years and older, go figure...) I made friends who were into more HAMB-friendly stuff, and eventually bought my old truck to do cl***ic truck stuff with my cl***ic truck friends. Ended up not doing much with the car except for driving it to work on occasional nice days. Sold it to a guy who left a note on it in my driveway in Feb of 2019. He said he was gonna restore it but flipped it instead, and the last two owners both managed to track me down because of my name on old paperwork and on some pictures I had submitted to a Mustang site do***enting all the paint colors. The current owner is very happy with it, and the car has a blown 347 in it now if I'm remembering right.
My dad has a 93 SSP coupe 5 Speed. It's one of 4 that were brought into Alberta that year, only 2 survive.
Yeah, you’re right. Actually it was the wife’s driver, she bought it for herself. Still a pig though. If it had of had the good GT seats and the 5.0, it might have been a decent car. As it was, it was a rough riding fairgrounds cruiser, it looked tough, but no balls.
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