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you sir, drink the same water I do. They used to call them 'Fear-monts' because it is after all, one ugly mother of a fox body, yet ALL the fun parts bolt up. one of my best friends growing up called them F***monts because his parents bought one..a non-turbo Lima 4 with a C4 (or was it C3?) he retaliated by having his teenager dream car be a 2 door chevelle base he turned into a fake ss...
couple years back I bid on one at the Barret Jackson hosted by Joe Pyle from Point Marion Pa - ford dealer/collector died and his 60 deep stable went up for auction. I said $5000 and was not even close to the hammer. bare bones stock. I bid on 20 cars that day and was merely an annoyance... smh....
There is a Fairmont wagon, tearing up the streets in PA. LS, turbo, carrying the wheels on the street. Pretty impressive.
I knew you had a Syclone, but I didn't realize it had only 12K miles on it. Color me jealous. I'm just happy to have a 100K mile Typhoon. I was pretty excited when a Typhoon with 272 miles on the odometer sold for $175,000 in February 2022, but that's so outrageously high that I think there's more to the story.
Love the Typhoons ! They are much more usable than the Syclone. I remember seeing that one go for $175k, and thought the same as you. That or someone just had to have it for their collection.
1982 was the last year, they extended the 82 run and came out with 84 early.
I just bought an 82, yeah they came with low horsepower but that was easily fixed.
My uncle bought this from another uncle, it sat for years now it is driven regularly. KS car, has the higher HP, low HP motor (L82?) and it has roughly 30k miles on it.
The same uncle that originally owned it has a 70 1/2 Z28 with the 365hp 350 sitting in a garage. The last time it was driven I was 15 years old...I'm 54 now. Been trying to buy it for years.
that first video...no cages, no tubs, no blankets, no helmets, no barriers, no safety equipment, no cops, no traffic control....yikes...they were racing from lindbergh to an open cross street with active traffic and were coasting down thru red lights..... at 6:30 in you see a mustang lone launch as jonnie law shows up and he finds the brake real quick. is this in any ways sponsored?
that first video...no cages, no tubs, no blankets, no helmets, no barriers, no safety equipment, no cops, no traffic control....yikes...they were racing from lindbergh to an open cross street with active traffic and were coasting down thru red lights..... at 6:30 in you see a mustang lone launch as jonnie law shows up and he finds the brake real quick. is this in any ways sponsored?
Nope, just street racing. I've never seen it done during the day, like in PA, LA. Here in the metro Detroit area it used to be in the early morning. The neighbors used to love us throwing the car on the trailer and heading downtown at 2 am. This was back in the 90's.
The LA scene is pretty crazy too. The street even has a wiki page, it's called Da Pad https://youtu.be/JVC81fIG14E
No but they are/were relatively easy to tune - if you are decently mechanical or can pay someone else to do it. A cam, intake, carburetor and you could add 100 hp without too much trouble. If willing to build the bottom end beefier then can go to 400|500hp without too much trouble and still be a good daily driver. All this staying naturally aspirated. Hard to get that kind of hp with today’s smaller displacement engines without adding a turbo or supercharger.
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Fox body Mustangs are a sort of Love it, or Hate it car.
I have one. When I drive it i'll get folks hanging out their windows giving me thumbs up, or coming up to talk to me at gas stations, and then i'll get folks saying "WTF? That's a Mustang?"
But the prices have been creeping up on them. They increasing in numbers at the auction houses and do have a sort of cult following.
I have mine insured through Haggery and I have had to regularly increase the declared value on mine over the years as prices have gone up (and various levels of restoration have been undertaken). I can't even buy another one as a project as rollers ( sans engine/trans) are selling for $7500 if they are clean. A good, needs-nothing, average weekend cruiser is probably a $15-20K car these days. Hell, my wife and I drive clean, late model vehicles in good condition, and the insured value of my fox probably exceeds what I would get if both those cars were totaled out.
Trying to find links to a collection that sold recently, but unable to do so. But the Halo cars of the genre have been approaching or exceeding 6-figures at auction for some time now
Fox body Mustangs are a sort of Love it, or Hate it car.
I have one. When I drive it i'll get folks hanging out their windows giving me thumbs up, or coming up to talk to me at gas stations, and then i'll get folks saying "WTF? That's a Mustang?"
But the prices have been creeping up on them. They increasing in numbers at the auction houses and do have a sort of cult following.
I have mine insured through Haggery and I have had to regularly increase the declared value on mine over the years as prices have gone up (and various levels of restoration have been undertaken). I can't even buy another one as a project as rollers ( sans engine/trans) are selling for $7500 if they are clean. A good, needs-nothing, average weekend cruiser is probably a $15-20K car these days. Hell, my wife and I drive clean, late model vehicles in good condition, and the insured value of my fox probably exceeds what I would get if both those cars were totaled out.
Trying to find links to a collection that sold recently, but unable to do so. But the Halo cars of the genre have been approaching or exceeding 6-figures at auction for some time now
My uncle bought this from another uncle, it sat for years now it is driven regularly. KS car, has the higher HP, low HP motor (L82?) and it has roughly 30k miles on it.
The same uncle that originally owned it has a 70 1/2 Z28 with the 365hp 350 sitting in a garage. The last time it was driven I was 15 years old...I'm 54 now. Been trying to buy it for years.
Yes 99.9999% of American cars sucked in the 80s. I had a 86 Chrysler Labaron convertible. From the time it was new it didn't feel safe to drive over 70mph. Had a friend with a late 80s Mustangs that a old woman with a walker could have gave a run for its money through the quarter mile.
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