As a child of the ’80’s, I’ve always liked Fox-body Mustangs. The generation’s best years of ’87-’93 correspond exactly with my high school and college days, when I would have loved to have had a new 5.0 Mustang. No such luck, it was ’70’s cars for me and the dream has long gone unfulfilled. I still stop and look at any nice one I see, though. If you’re like me, you’ll enjoy this all-Fox article.
The Fox-body Mustang (1979-’93) is one of the most enduringly popular cars to come out of the ’80’s and ’90’s and is emerging as a legitimate collector car, with the best examples bringing prices comparable to many performance cars from the ’60’s and early ’70’s. The old car hobby has always been driven by nostalgia, and many people who were young when they were new are now middle aged and in their peak earning years. Some of them now want to get back the car they let go years ago, or more likely the car they wanted but were never able to get at the time.
Towards the end of my long day at Barrett-Jackson, in one of the last giant indoor tents one comes to if coming in from the outside fields, I came upon a sight to behold: eighteen Fox-body Mustangs lined up chronologically representing almost every year of the body style. They were all in perfect, apparently original condition and with less than 20k miles, some much less. Needless to say, I stopped and looked. A lot. If you like this generation of Mustang, it was pretty much Fox Nirvana. I hadn’t heard about it before hand, but there was some publicity around Dennis Collins, of TV’s Fast ‘n Loud, selling his collection of Mustangs. If you ever watch the show when he’s on, it’s pretty clear he knows his cars and has plenty of money to indulge his automotive passions. Must be nice, if I had lots of money I might be tempted to amass a collection of the best Fox Mustangs I could find, too!
This generation was a huge breath of fresh air after what most Mustang fans consider the dark era. Really, Ford seemed to have lost the tune with the ’71-’73 BloatStang and the ’74-’78 Mustang II. I think they clearly got their groove back with the Fox Mustang. It took a while for the platform to mature and engines to develop fully, but by the mid-’80’s the Mustang was a worthy spiritual successor to the original Pony Car.
I’ll show just a few highlight cars below.
The first year for the Fox-based Mustang is represented by a 1979 Cobra. The Cobra package came standard with a turbocharged 2.3L four cylinder engine making 131hp, or a 140hp 5.0L (302cid) was optional. This immaculate, all-original V8 example had 16k miles and sold for $19,800.
At least Ford had the good sense to introduce the new Mustang with an available V8 (unlike the 1974 Mustang II), even if power output was nothing to brag about when a Pontiac Firebird was still available with 220hp. It did weigh almost 1000lb less than a Firebird, so performance wasn’t too shabby by the standards of the day. Unfortunately, Ford dropped the 5.0 for 1980 and ’81, which are the only two years not represented in this collection. Those two years, the only V8 available was a 255, which made 119 and 115hp in 1980 and ’81 respectively. The turbo 2.3 did make 150hp for 1980, then was dropped for ’81 due to reliability issues. The very bottom of the malaise era!
By the time this 1984 GT was made, the 5.0 had been back for a couple of years and had worked its way up to 175hp. Detroit was slowly shaking off its malaise, thank goodness. This car also had 16k miles, but brought a bit less that the ’79 Cobra: $18,700. This is the last year for the TRX metric wheels/tires.
The carbureted 5.0 really didn’t have a bad looking engine compartment at all by ’80’s standards. There’s a lot going on on the front of the engine, but the engine itself is visible and the dual snorkel air cleaner with stainless lid is rather attractive.
This is a car you don’t see very often, a 1986 SVO. The Special Vehicle Operations team (later SVT) put a lot of engineering work into a special Mustang that was sold from 1984-1986. It had a much improved version of the 2.3L four with turbocharger, intercooler and electronic fuel injection, making 205hp by 1986. It also sported special wheels and tires and improved suspension over the GT. It was never destined to sell a lot, though, as the the price was close to twice the GT’s with similar performance numbers and lacking the GT’s V8 rumble and low end torque. Just like in the mid-’80’s, at $33,000 this SVO would cost you close to double what you could have paid for the ’84 GT above or the 1985 GT convertible.
My favorite Fox Mustangs are the LX 5.0’s, which had the same drivetrain, suspension and wheels as the GT, but wrapped in the plain base Mustang wrapper. I really like the police versions, when starting in the mid ’80’s many state highway patrols and even some municipal/county departments ran the Mustangs to counter the anemic performance of full size cruisers at the time. This 1990 LX 5.0 is not listed as a police package car, but it was ordered just like one with vinyl seats, radio delete and 5-speed manual. With just under 8k miles, it also brought $33,000.
The top seller in the collection was the 1993 LX 5.0 convertible, representing the end of this very long-lived body style. Of course, the chassis would live on still for 11 more years. This one had 341 miles and sold for $53,900. You could buy a new one in 1993 with more miles than that!
Here’s the new owner with his car. He looks pleased, but not nearly as happy as the guy hanging out in the back!
The electronic fuel injection set up of ’86-’93 greatly improved power, efficiancy and driveability, but it pretty well covered the engine and made the ‘Stang less charismatic underhood. The bracing is not stock, but was added when the car was new. The parts are BBK brand, which is the company of the new owner. Guess the Mustang world is pretty small after all.
If you’re interested, here’s links to the rest: 1982 GT, 1983 GT, 1983 GT convertible (gray), 1983 GT convertible (black), 1984 GT350, 1987 GT convertible, 1988 ASC McClaren convertible (weird one!), 1989 GT, 1990 convertible (green 7-Up edition), 1991 LX 5.0 hatchback, 1992 GT convertible, 1993 LX 5.0 convertible (supercharged)
Since this is Curbside Classic, here’s a pallet cleanser after all the high buck, powerhouse Mustangs. Silver had a mint 1990 LX convertible without a 5.0, but instead it had a 4 cylinder and automatic. I don’t know how much it sold for, but I’m sure it was a fraction of any of the Collins Mustangs.
I have to confess that I don’t remember what year this car was and I don’t have a picture of the window placard. As far as I know, it could be anywhere from 1990 to 1993. Do any of you know any little details to narrow it down? (update: Dave Skinner inferred from the engine picture below that it had to be a 1990 model. Impressive knowledge!)
The turbine hubcaps and whitewalls look good on this mild Mustang. They say, “I don’t want to win any races, I just want to have fun in the sun. Wanna come?”
For the ’87-’93 Mustang, Ford pared the engine choices down to just two. It always struck me as kind of absurd that there was such a big spread between the two engines. If you didn’t want to go for the 5.0 V8, you got the 2.3L I4 which made 88hp in 1990, then all of 105hp in 1991-’93. The 4 cylinder in this sweet little Mustang makes it a nice laid back cruiser, just don’t make the mistake of thinking you can go anywhere fast.
In the same vein, Russo and Steele also had a pleasant looking base model droptop, a 1985 LX convertible. This one has the 120hp 3.8L V6, so it might at least be able to get out of its own way.
I’ve always liked the ’85-’86 front end, maybe more than the ’87-’93. In person the car is not quite as clean as it looks in the pictures and not nearly as sharp as the Silver convertible above, but I’ll bet the new owner went home very happy after paying only $2500.
If you want to get into a Fox body 5.0 and don’t have $20-30k to spend, there are choices, even at Barrett-Jackson. They had this 1990 GT convertible which sold for only $7150.
No, it doesn’t have zero miles and it’s not completely stock or original under the hood. However, it looks good, the interior is in great shape and it has a 5 speed manual. Ready to rock and roll!
I hope you enjoyed this look at some fine Foxes, as well as the previous parts with Thunderbirds and first-gen Mustangs. Feel free to tell us about your Fox memories or what you think about these cars in the comments section.
Previous articles in my 2018 Scottsdale auction series:
Cadillacs-part 1 restored cars
Cadillacs-part 2 unrestored cars
I had only a couple of contacts with these over the years, well three. A neighbor kid bought a new 79 with the V8 and a stick. I was not ready for this new direction from Ford at the time and couldn’t warm up to it.
I gave serious consideration to an 85 GT coupe, but went another direction when it was time to lay my money down. I agree about the 85 face, but it was that matte black decal on the hood that I could not come to terms with. Finally my new bride and I rented a 1990 LX convertible with the 5.0/auto. White with red interior, it was a really nice car for the week we had it.
At one of the Carlisle shows a few years back, someone offered a mint, low-mileage, unmodified 1986 Mercury Capri with the 5.0 V-8 for sale. (Most Fox-body Mustangs and Capris from the 1980s have been modified in some way.)
The price was actually reasonable. Unfortunately, our house at the time didn’t have a garage (or even off-street parking), and we were paying for daycare. I still often think about that car, and how nice it would be to own! That is the “one that got away.”
That would be a cool car to have! Maybe you’ll cross paths with one again when you are in a position to buy it…
I keep hoping that this does happen! It was a very sharp car.
I don’t think I’ve seen so many Mustangs with gleaming composite headlamps with crystal clear lenses!
It’s interesting to see Ford spending lot of money on two different composite headlamp designs for plain vanilla Mustang and Mustang SVO. The composite headlamps on Mustang SVO looked as an afterthought and didn’t blend seamlessly with the turn signal indicators.
“The composite headlamps on Mustang SVO looked as an afterthought and didn’t blend seamlessly with the turn signal indicators.”
That’s because they were an afterthought, in as much as they had to fit in the headlight opening used by the early SVO cars, which used the standard rectangular headlights.
Right, I know about it because my classemate’s boyfriend had a 1984 SVO with headlamp capsule version.
Ford could have made extra effort to make the composite headlamp blend with the turn signal indicators and such rather than try to shovel the square peg through a smaller circle hole so to speak.
The composite headlamp was one year deal before Ford cancelled the SVO version for 1987 model year.
The way I remember it, the SVO was originally designed for composite but regulations allowing them didn’t come through when expected. Though I have also heard that Ford didn’t finish engineering them in time. So the sealed beams were the ones that were afterthoughts. The ’87s were a refinement of that design.
I agree the old ones look better today, but I didn’t think so at the time, when composites were the latest new thing and most sports cars had smaller quad headlights.
I don’t think I’ve seen so many Mustangs with gleaming composite headlamps with crystal clear lenses!
Makes me really self conscious, I installed NOS composite headlight housings and corners on my Cougar a year ago and I now notice how cloudy they already are in comparison to these Mustangs. Good thing they’re indoors!
“it could be anywhere from 1990 to 1993. Do any of you know any little details to narrow it down?”
Not much to go on for these years, but there may be enough to work with-
It has a distributor rather than the waste spark ignition (which was also as dual plug system), so it’s an ’87 to ’90.
Also, that looks to be an ABS impact sensor in next to the hood latch (I’ve attached a picture of the sensor for reference). Therefore, it’s a 1990, which was the first year for the Driver’s side airbag.
It did have the airbag steering wheel, which is how I figured it was 90-93. If the distributor was 87-90, then that nails it down! 1990 it is. I was looking at the brochures and they suggest (but don’t definitively state) that 1990 was the last year the turbine wheel covers were available, so I was suspecting that it was 90, but the owner could still have put the hubcaps on a later model. Thanks!
“I’ve always liked the ’85-’86 front end”
I totally agree! And the tail lights as well, although they go back to ’83.
I had one, briefly. Was a convertible, and had the V6. Unfortunately it was worn out.
Great to see all of these–and interesting to see prices these very nice examples are commanding.
As to the $2500 ’85 convertible: my local Ford dealer was selling one on consignment; he said “you can’t go wrong with one of these–buy it for around $3000, use it for a couple of summers, and sell it for almost as much.” If I’d had a 3-car garage, I’d have been tempted…
I agree that, starting with the ’87 model year, the Fox-platform Mustangs really matured. Compared to the somewhat over-wrought Camaro and Firebird of the time, the Mustang just looked like it meant business, and avoided ultra-macho clichés like the Trans Am “screaming chicken.” The design was tight and compact, and the 5.0 LX or GT was a competent driver’s car. The current generation Mustang is starting to get a bit on the large side, and almost reminds me of the size of the ’77-’79 Thunderbird. Thanks for the informative article and great pictures.
Great pictures and info on a generation of Mustang I like very much having first bought a new 79 Cobra with 2.3 litre turbo and TRX suspension. Wonderful car around the city and a nice highway car.
I’ve owned a few used Fox body Mustangs since and would like to get another when Mrs. M and I downsize in four years. Still a few nice ones to be found just can’t put down the dollars for one yet. With the youngest daughter, her husband and little guy living in Redmond, WA, I keep an eye out for these Mustangs in that area. A basic late 80’s hatch is not far from their house, but I’ve never had the opportunity to talk with the owner.
“Detroit was slowly shaking off its malaise, thank goodness”
Yes, some silly group on Facebook says “malaise era didn’t end until 1996”. No way! Were they born yesterday? Probably!
The author of this term, from another car site, agrees that it ended in mid 80’s with cars like the 5.0 Mustang GT.
“…it could be anywhere from 1990 to 1993…”
The 1992-93 LX models had body color side trim, instead of all black. One way to catch the last two years.
Good tip, thanks!
Makes me miss the one I had to sell about year or so ago. I bought it 4 years ago and planned to keep it for a long time. When I got it, the previous owner had done a good bit to it to beef up the power but still keep it looking pretty stock. No super chargers or turbos, mostly internals. It was making 275hp at the wheels, so a decent bump over stock. The interior looked almost new with a few exceptions that I immediately addressed. What I wasn’t crazy about was the color he painted it. He chose the pearl white from a Cadillac and that’s just not a pony car color! Well after owning the car about 2 weeks I took it for a drive and the hood flew open on me and slammed into the cowl and messed it up. I was heart broken but took it to the body shop for an estimate. I decided that since it was going to need paint and body work to take the plunge and paint the whole car. I chose to paint it red, p40 color code from Ford. The same red that the then current Mustang GT’s were. I also had a new front and rear bumper and all body side moldings replaced because they each had small imperfections. I replaced the rear quarter windows and windshield as well. The windshield amazingly wasn’t damaged by the hood but was very pitted from years of service. The quarter windows black paint was faded. I also replaced the GT cheese grater tail lights with new LX style lights and replaced the headlights with fresh clean black units. Oh and I also bought the cobra grill insert because why not at this point. The car was never going to be a stock show piece so I wanted to make it look like what I would have wanted from a factory car if I was able to have my way. My goal was to have a car that looked factory fresh, even if it wasn’t in “factory spec”. Further custom touches included black 5.0 fender badges, a short antenna, and some hood pins! I had read that these hood latches were know for not holding the hood closed and I didn’t want the same thing happening a second time. Oh and I also replaced all the black exterior pieces. The windshield surround, cowl cover, antenna mount, door handles and lock cylinders, power side mirrors, and rear glass surround trim. I replaced all the weather stripping as well. The only thing I couldn’t find was a new sunroof! The metal surround that held the glass had surface rust and drove me crazy. I couldn’t find one anywhere. I thought about just having the body shop weld in a plate to cover the hole bud decided against it. So I took the sunroof out and sanded it the best I could and painted the trim black with spray paint. It wasn’t perfect but it was better. I just figured I’d keep looking and find one someday. When I got the car back, I put some black racing stripes on it that I got from American Muscle. The car had chrome pony wheels that looked ok from 10 feet but had some putting up close. I was going to change the axels to 5 lug units and get different wheels at some point but just went ahead and painted them black as a temporary improvement. The day I went to the body shop to pick up the car, it wouldn’t start. I finally got it to crank but it ran horribly. I was pretty upset at this point, I’d owned it about 8 months at this point and only driven it about 50 miles. I had it towed to a Ford performance shop and they diagnosed it as being severely out of time. The distributor was turned almost 180 degrees out of time! The body shop swore they never touched the engine… Since I had it at this shop, I asked them to go over the car with a fine tooth comb and sort out anything they found. I told them to set it up to where they would be comfortable putting their wife in it as a daily driver. So several thousand dollars later, the car was just about perfect! My 1993 factory fresh reliable, pretty car! Except I had them do one more thing. The geareing was pretty high on the car, I can’t remember what it was exactly so I had a new set of 4.10 gears installed. I should have gone with 3.73’s and the 4.10’s made first gear almost pointless but it greatly improved the off the line speed and didn’t raise the 5th gear rpm’s by that much. Unfortunately my life took a hell of a turn not long after getting the car back and I was forced to sell it at a huge loss. You never get back the money you invest in something like this, and I knew that going into it. But at the time I wasn’t planning on selling it any time soon if ever. The only thing I wish I had different was right after I got it back I saw a 2004 Mustang Mach1 painted in an orange color that I really liked. I wish I had seen that color before I chose red.
Too bad you had to sell it! Life can be crazy…
The day I bought it.
I liked this car a lot.
I had a 92 LX 5.0 red hatch and it was a simple good car.
It was fun to drive, the perfect size and incredibly practical.
It was also very affordable.
I’d love to own another.
The Fox Mustang restored the joys of Mustang ownership.
The 1979-93 Fox Mustangs made a lot of money for Ford. Pretty amazing, considering they were basically just shortened versions of the pedestrian Fairmont/Zephr coupes. I remember reading reviews of the early models that basically said they drove pretty much like their larger Fox-platform brothers.
Wife ordered our “89 LX with the 5.0 manual at the PX in Seoul. Took delivery in Carson City to avoid CA smog & tax. Her 1st new car. Before the Army, I worked in a Ford garage. I approved of her choice. In fact, I lusted after it and took her keys every chance I got.
During this time, she lived in San Francisco on the Treasure Island Navy base. I was at language school all week in Monterrey and saw her only on weekends.
That Mustang caused my wife nothing but problems. It would die for no apparent reason. Multiple tows into various Ford agencies were necessary. In each case, the car would start and run perfectly right after being dropped off the tow hook. I even asked my wife if she was perhaps having trouble with the clutch release as the car never once stalled on me.
Eventually, trying to accelerate onto the Bay Bridge off the Treasure Island entrance ramp, the car stalled and she was rear ended. She wasn’t hurt, but the car was totaled with less than 20k miles.
Every Ford dealer she had contacted about the problem denied knowledge. Years later, Ford finally ‘fessed up. I was so pissed about the lying that despite my love of all things Ford, I never bought another. I’ve bought many new cars since, but always GM, Nissan or Chrysler.
What a great car. What a sorry excuse for corporate leadership.
https://www.autosafety.org/1983-1995-fordlincolnmercury-ignition-module-stalling/
Very nice! My ’84 GT looked just like that, except I didn’t have the TRX wheels. Thank goodness. That flat black hood was a real PITA to keep looking nice, and a reason why I will never buy another car with flat paint.
It was a pretty respectable performer back in its day, a real sleeper compared to Camaros, Firebirds, and the later GTs.
Maybe my memory is fuzzy, but I’m pretty sure my air cleaner was black with silver writing. I can’t seem to find the details now, but I’m pretty sure they updated the engine towards the end of the ’84 run, bumping the HP from 175 to around 200 if I remember right. I wonder if that’s what this car has.
And I really love that ’70 more than I should. That may have been the malaise era, but I still have a soft spot for those kind of graphics.
The 83 GT’s at the auction (see links in story) had a silver air cleaner lid with a black band, which had silver writing on it. The 85 had the all silver lid with black writing. Sounds like you’re right that this 84 has the updated engine.
Ah yes, that’s right, mine had the black band. Looking at the ’84 I also had different front seats. Now that I think about it I guess those differences could have been part of the TRX package also.
Whoops, meant to say I love that ’79.
After reading through this, I realized I’ve actually driven quite a few Fox Mustangs. Well, actually one was a Capri rental. Any sportiness inherent in the platform was squeezed out by the 4 cylinder, automatic, skinny whitewall tire rent-a-car spec. The other 4 cylinder was a Turbo coupe pre-SVO, TRX era. Not bad, but within a few blocks on the test drive I realized it wasn’t for me.
When I was shopping for my Ranger in 1986, I also drove a new 5.0 LX. Appealing but I knew I wanted a pickup so that didn’t go anywhere. Then, I borrowed a friend’s ‘87 5.0 GT for a weekend while he used my truck. This car was lowered, had a loud cat-free exhaust and some other engine mods and was FAST. Finally, a few years later in life, I seriously considered a used 5.0 LX convertible. Clean and straight, second owner, black with a 5 speed, $3000 with only about 50K miles … I sometimes regret passing on it now.
Last month I was driving in heavy freeway traffic and saw an unusually proportioned shape amongst the rounded, lookalike Camcord and CUV rear ends ahead of me … it was a Fox Mustang. Once so common, it looked exotic now. How times have changed.
I really dig the 79 Cobra, I love the late malaise era wannabe Trans Am hood graphics, sue me. I feel like a few emblems are wrong though, I don’t think Cobras used 5.0 badges on the fenders, and that small Cobra badge on the top of the grille looks wrong too. 79-82 is my favorite front and rear end of the “four eye” Mustangs, there’s nothing in your face retro about them unlike modern Mustangs, but there very subtle callbacks like the vertical taillight segments, the 70 style angled front marker lamps and the eggcrate grille, offset emblem and 4 headlight arrangement, with the outboards set back, like the 69s.
Never liked the 83-84 nose and kind of felt the SVO looked more appropriate with the revised taillights with amber turn signals than the regular Mustangs did. 87-93s are my favorite all around but I ONLY like em in 5.0 LX or SSP form, preferably notchback, as I have always found the GT ground effects, grilleless nose and cheese grater taillights kind of trashy. The Special edition convertibles are really nice too, I always liked the triple white one and the 7-up – I found the latter at a junkyard a few years ago, repainted badly red and black, but the original green was there under the paint chips, along with the turbine wheels and remarkably complete and half decent white interior, ugh! I tried buying it from them but they said no
+1 on the ’79 to ’82 styling.
I know a lot of folk felt the Fox Mustang styling moved too far away from the classic Mustang styling cues, but I liked the overall look. While the 83-’86 cars are all right, I prefer the egg crate grill on the early cars, and I think aerodynamic headlights from ’87 on look tacked on.
This image shows my favorite by far- an ’82 GT in solid maroon, WITHOUT the TRX wheels. I know Ford hung the wheels in this shot on a bunch of cars (including models in Europe and Australia), but they just look right under the squared off Fox body.
The 82 GT is my favorite too. I still remember the commercial declaring, “The Boss Is Back!”
Yup, I agree Dave. That is the best-looking Fox Mustang. It looks like a pony car. The later Mustangs look nice and all but if you put a Del Rey or Sierra or Telstar badge on ’em, it wouldn’t look amiss.
I believe the ’84-86 GT taillights were the same as the SVOs.
Edit: *I misread what you wrote, you said those taillights look more appropriate on the SVO*
I also was not a fan of the grille on the ’84, I much prefer the ’85.
Back in the summer of 1993, I was 20 and in the military and I traded my nice, comfortable and reliable ’86 Cutlass for an ’88 LX 5.0/5 speed hatchback, blue with a blue cloth interior. Even back then, there was a stereotype about young guys in the military buying Mustangs on 20% interest loans and marrying strippers to get out of the barracks (I didn’t do either) Anyway, I didn’t love it and only kept it for about 6 months. Yes it was fast and it was the hot car for the day but it felt flimsy, the whole dash rattled on every bump, and it had the Ford ignition issues. I’m also 6’2″ and (at the time) 230 lbs and didn’t fit in the car very well but I needed to get the 5.0 Mustang box checked. After I got it out of my system, and since I was stationed in New York, it was replaced by an ’88 Bronco just in time for the harsh 1994 winter that NY had that year.
It really sucks the ’79-82 models were the most gutless of the Fox’s run because they look so much better. The later Foxes can be downright tacky (later GTs) or just innocuous and bland (later LXs). I mean yeah, it’s nice the later LXs aren’t overdone but there’s nothing terribly sporty about how they look.
The early models, especially the ’82 GT, look more purposeful. The segmented taillights, the eggcrate grille. I love them.
I knew Fox Mustangs would eventually appreciate in value. Looks like that time has come.
I agree with you too about the later years’ engine options. Such a huge chasm between the four and the V8, surely they could have offered a six like every other era of Mustang or Camaro.
As far as I can figure, this was the only time since 1934 that Ford offered a choice of just a 4cyl or an 8cyl in any model.
Glad you posted these. This lot of Foxes was my favorite part of Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale this past January. I wonder why…(hint…this ones mine) 🙂
Nice!
I’ve been saving these, slowly building up to my more favorites. Couple more good bunches of cars to go!
I grew up with a couple of Fox body Mustangs. My dad bought an ‘85 GT 5-speed brand new. He still owns it though it’s pretty sad now and just rotting in his driveway. His car has t-tops, or rather “leak tops” I went to school many days with the right leg of my pants wet because of the leaking frameless door glass of the t-top car. My dad said he regretting ordering a t-top car in the end. I am the same vintage as said Mustang and either he or my mother drove that car my entire growing up so I spent many, many miles in either the front passenger seat or the backseat with my brother.
The other was the ‘89 GT 5-speed my dad’s oldest sister bought new. It was white with black pinstripes (special ordered as it should be red) with gray interior. She owned that car for 10 years and cried when she traded it in. She still laments getting rid of that car. And let me tell you, no one keeps a car up like she does. At 10 years old and 150k, it looked like a car that was a year or two old. She regularly washed and waxed it. Scotch guarded all of the seats, kept a small leather bag for any trash in the car. It was immaculate.
I almost bought a 5.0 1985 GT for $2,500.00 for my second car, but it was a little too beat up. I prefer the 1985-86 GTs & LXs over the later model GTs, which were a bit too much like a spaceship for my taste. I saw a 1982 GT @ my local car show which had the later Bullitt model mag wheels which I liked very much.
What? No ’93 Cobra R were offered?
No ’93 Cobras at all!