Ford Fox Body Mustang - The History, All the Models & Features
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2023
- Performance returns to the forefront at Ford with the release of the Foxbody Mustang. We cover GT’s, Cobra’s, Pace Cars, LX 5.0’s, Convertibles, Special Editions plus more in this video. Also all the drive lines, engine, and transmission options, For a full history of these cars check out this video
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The 1983 Mustang GT commercial is 🔥🔥🔥🔥 it's so 1980s I love it!
I had a used 79 Cobra at the end of High School with the rare 5.0 and 4 speed manual (3+overdrive). It also had the sunroof. I still have dreams sometimes that I found somewhere and was able to buy it back. I think I’m young again in those dreams as well.
Being young again is difficult but there are 79 Cobras out there IF you look. Thank you for watching!
The Fox chassis Mustang saved the car. If sales had tanked in 1979 Ford was going to do away with it. The biggest thing about the Mustang is that the GT could deliver performance very close to the Corvette for less than half the price.
Completely agree!
I bought 1 of the 79’ Pace Cars with the 5.0 V8 in 1982 and had it until the winter of 1985. Was an awesome car!
The 87 through 1993,such great bang for the buck.such a well designed motor,the 1993 said 225 horse's,when you drove it,it didn't feel like it.the 5 speed had so much power right off the showroom floor.not a Ford guy,but you have to give credit where credit is due on these years
85-86 are my fav
I LOVE the 1985-1986 Mustang GT. Beautiful car. The 1987 GT is also very nice.
My sister and brother in law bought a new 1987 Mustang GT in black (just like in your video). They bought it right after they got married in April of that year.
As always, I love the informational value, coupled with the nostalgic ads and schematics. I often learn facts about ford that augments my work acumen. Thanks so much Tony, please keep making great content. Can't wait to see more SVO!!!
Thanks Chris! There's more SVO content coming. Mostly because this car hasn't been touched mechanically is a quite a few years. :)
The 4 eye notchbacks with T-tops will always rank high for me. I hadn’t learned up until about a year of how many special edition foxes were out there. Incredible video!
Thank you sir!
I had a very limited 1981 king cobra
Great video Tony...such amazing detail. 1979-1993 were my formative years , from 7th grade thru college and the Fox bodied Mustangs were a BIG part of it...from wanting a 5.0 GT for a decade, to owning the '86 GT 5-speed that I bought in the Air Force, to lusting after my older brother's 87 GT AND 88 GT. SO much fun to drive these torquey cars. Your knowledge of these cars and their development is really amazing, thanks for putting this video together. Now off to blast around in the 2023 Mach1 that I just got in May. THANK YOU Ford engineers for keeping our Mustangs alive and kicking!
Thank you for watching and sharing!
85 and 86 GT's were the greatest / hottest ever built imo. I still think the 85's horse was understated because of the temperamental carb. What a great era - hope to find one in mint shape someday! Thank you for the GREAT video!
Thanks you for the kind words and for watching!
yes sir! Thanks again@@TonysFordsandMustangs
Now we’re talking. Great video Tony! This brings back so many great memories. An Oxford White ‘79 with the inline 6 was my first car in ‘87 and I loved it, until I got a Medium Canyon Red ‘85 GT 5-sp with t-tops and the Holley 4-barrel two years later. That was my fun college car. Then I had a ‘93 Probe GT for a couple of years before returning to the Mustang stable with a Race Red ‘94 Cobra. Didn’t care much for the Mustangs that followed, so I dabbled in Corvettes and Acuras for a while, until Ford got serious again with the DOHC VCT Coyote V8, so I picked up a Race Red ‘12 GT 6-sp. Now I’m in automotive heaven with my Oxford White ‘22 Mach 1 just like yours Tony. I always did want an ‘87-‘93 GT though, but that was an itch I never was able to scratch.
Thank you for sharing and watching!
Thanks for the Fox history. As a kid, being 14 years old, when the refresh came in 87 I absolutely loved the car. The GT always looked the best too and IMO was the car to have back in the day.
Thanks for watching!
Work at Ford dealer back then, the Indy pace car what's the coolest, had the horses sticker on the fenders and the turbo 4 and manual transmission,, some pintos had the V6 with manual
I worked at a dealer when the 88's came out. Fun times!
I still got my first car. The 84 GT turbo. Great Video
That's an awesome car and Thank you!
84 turbo, pretty rare and worth preserving!!
I hate myself for passing up the chance to buy an 83 GT Turbo for $1000 about 20 years ago. Was in great condition
@@331Grabber oh dang! yeah when i was around 18 someone in town had a white 83 turbo GT350 convertible. At the time I didnt have the cast for it, but I prolly coulda got it for that same amount. it was a little beat up bit nothin that couldnt have been fixed.
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I saw a GT350 Turbo convertible in Fresno many years ago for sale. Wasn't that one was it? 104 or so of them made :)
Appreciate all your time and energy put into this video!
Thank you for watching!
Very nicely done vid, thanks for presenting! I'm a Fox Fanatic having owned 3 coupes ('84, '88 x2 with two of these being SSPs), 2 hatches ('90, '91) and a convertible ('89) plus a couple of later Fox SN-95s ('01 GT coupe and '03 GT 'vert). I still own one of the SSPs, an '88 CHP fully restored - that one is a keeper!
Thank you for the kind words! The SSP's are a very cool car to own!
This vid made us recall our 1979 Cobra 2.3L Turbo/Bright Red. Purchased used, few months after Highschool w/cash frm 1st Full-time job. Well, cash & our favorite European Ultra Lightweight 12ga semi-auto shotgun we'd worked all summer in HS to pay for. It was elegant.
Cobra 4 banger was blown when bought, due to the turbo eatin itself as they often did w/mi on them. We fully rebuilt the eng. Converted to 'solid-cam/lash adjuster' setup for better revs. Used to carry spare hyd lash adjusters & chg on side of road, if I missed 3rd gear. It pop 1 from overrev. Install 2- 2 bbl Side Draft Euro carbs, on an Esslinger Alum intake, & all the other typical bolt on stuff.. Beat on it daily, till blew it up ourselves when doing hard pulls w/ car full of ~700lbs+ of passengers - spinning #3 rod bearing. Only had 1 veh, so it required drivin it to wrk a few days, listenin to #3 forged flat top piston, slap the cyl head. Had to be at wrk to pay for all this nonsense.
(These next details are frm ~40yr ole memory, & may not be 100% correct)
Few cool features I remember being unique about this platform Stang, were its Trac-loc diff in the 7.5" - w/3.43 gear. Better shocks. 1st Stang w/4 link & coils. Rear Anti-Swaybar - that was the size of a coat hanger, yet did help, vs not havin one.
Car cornered better than any previous leaf spring Stang I'd ever been in.. Those TRX Michelin tires, to replace, cost $125+ ea new, over 35+yrs ago. They were odd metric & no other manufact's made um, as I recall. Also, I seem to remember that the rear brake drums on the Cobra were light weight, & aluminum, if memory serves me. I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. Tranny ratios in the manual box were decent, but limited due to being a 4spd. Our car had a pop up manual moon roof, or whatever Ford called it. I assumed it was factory, but as a used car & 35+yrs ago, I could be wrong. I could go on, but nobody cares enough to read what I've already written. Ya hav covered many of our own rides, from the '78 Fairmont Futura 2dr (460 BB) we had, & our new 1991 Ford Probe (here) we bought new bk then. U've also covered our '71 Mach 1 351C 4bbl head car, we loved. & our '89 Stang in this vid as well. Did you do the S550Bullitt yet? and then recently, our GT500 Shelby S550.
You have covered so many of our own Stangs in your vids. 👍 U covered our BB/ Small Blk '69 Torino's, in another vid if memory serves me, yes?
Sold our '70 FB Stang, to fund the GT500 purchase after a yr wait. That car is by far, the heaviest, & the best handling stk Stang we have ever owned.
She's about ~2 1/4 tons of fun, with us in it. Tried to buy a few 2dr Maverick's more than once, over the yrs, but just never put that purchase together. I loved ur videos & road trip w/your Mav. Owned just 1 Pinto after we broke a timing chain in the "Land yacht" '71 Mach 1, to get to wrk in as my 1st bk up car. Glad I don't have to hotrod our DAILY any longer in life.
Lots of long weekends, & trips to the only 24hr parts store within 100+mi from our residents, & did that round trip way to often 😀. Thk gawd for friends Givin ya rides.
Can't say we've seen a vid yet of yours, we didn't enjoy. Thks again !!
Apologies for the ramble.
' Life is but what we remember '
Thank you so much for sharing and watching! Your memory seems to be pretty great! Yes I have a Torino video out there a few other select Ford cars. I started making videos as a way to share what I knew and learn what I didn't. Also to share some of my trips so that my daughters would have something to look back on when I'm no longer around. I'm glad you enjoy my content and appreciate your viewership.
Owned many cars over the years..5.0, xr7 turbo, boss, mach1 etc. My Comp prep SVO by far my fav. Window sticker still on but I do drive it. Such a fun car.
I'm enjoying my SVO as well! T
The Lima 2.3 turbo is one of the best sohc engines ever. I put 1 in my 73 Capri and its such a great upgrade. Great video thanks man.
Thank you for the kind words and for watching!
I love everything about the 87 GT but the tail lights. The original tail lights were so awesome.
We, Dad and I, have had our '91 Titanium Frost GT hatchback since new, getting it on August 30, 1991, Labor Day Weekend that year. I was 13, and learned to drive on it. The car went unused for many years in the garage, and needed to be towed out. I got choked up just steering it out from the garage as it was pulled by the tow truck. After it was sent to the mechanic for essentially just changing fluids, it worked out that it was finished on Friday of Labor Day weekend in 2022.
Aside from wishing the driving position was a little different, it's a joy to drive. Time hasn't dimmed the "fun to drive" thing with these cars whatsoever. It's so nice to see how many people have wonderful memories of theirs, and getting the respect and love they deserve with time. I am extremely fortunate to have mine, and so grateful. It does make it all the more special to me for the car to have been family since it was born.
Thank you for watching and for sharing your story!
@@TonysFordsandMustangs You're welcome, Tony. I enjoyed it.
1983 GLX 5.0 T5 gets overlooked. 4bbl carb ftw
Thanks Tony - and thank you to John Colletti who kept the mustang going !
Mr Colletti was always in the Mustang's corner. Thank you for watching!
Great video. 25 minutes flew by.
Thank you for watching!
1979’s were also built with 2.8 liter V6’s until Ford ran out of them, then they substituted the 3.3 inline 6 through 1982. Working at a wholesale car auction in 1995 one day a red 1982 GT arrived. No 5.0 badges on the fenders so I opened the hood and was surprised to see a 3.3 inline 6.
They did that a lot back in the day.
The 2.8L being replaced by the 3.3L due to 2.8L not being available or supply running out is not true. Both engines were available at the same time for most or all of the entire length of production.
The 1982 GT was available with the 5.0L with 4-speed manual, 4.2L with auto, turbo 2.3L (Canada only) with 5-speed manual, and, as engineering test vehicles only, the non-turbo 2.3L. The 3.3L was NA.
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I know what I saw.
@@MustangsTrainsMowers I wasn't there but so I can't dispute what you saw. Doesn't mean a 13-year-old car was original as delivered from Dearborn.
@@foxchassis I'm sure both of you know more about the engine options for these cars than I do. I put together a general information video because I couldn't find one. I used what I could find from multiple sources and tried to use the information that aligned through these multiple sources, Feel free to battle this one out. but I'm going to step aside. :)
Well done Tony! I’m sure that was a lot of work to edit and make.
Thanks Tom! Yes it was quite the project. There is a lot of contradicting information so I needed to use multiple sources and try to get a consensus for a few details.
Yes, excellent editing and research.
@@thebionicbassplayer thank you sir!
Great video Tony. You really create informational videos. Thanks!
Thank you!
Love the Fox's! I had 3 GT's during the 90's.
Thanks for the presentation!
Thank you for watching!
I love the foxbodies and owned an 89 LX 5.0. Awesome video Tony thx!
Glad you enjoyed it!
These cars were awesome, starting in 1981. The two years before...nah. I loved my 5.0 Mustang. 1989 Mustang. It embodied what a Mustang was! Powerful fun to drive, not bad on gas mileage, and small. I wish I still have it now. Peeps get them you find them!
Thanks for sharing!
Excellent details of the fox body history. Alot of memorable moments in the comments...equally as important is the younger kids learning about the Fox and think its desirable/cool car!
Thank you!
Great video. I had a 93 LX 5.0 for a long time. Adored that car but finally let her go to get a Grabber Blue 22 Coyote GT. That s550 is incredible, my mother says I talk about this new car like it's my girlfriend 😂. But without the Fox Body I could not have gotten my Petty Blue dream car 💙
Had the 79 Indy Pace car with the 5.0, painted it guards red, put in 1885 tail lights and dropped a 1988 fuel injected motor with a 5 speed in the car. So much fun and a great car to drive. Great videos You put together!
Very cool and thank you very much!
Excellent video! I learned a few things I didn’t know about Foxbody’s mustangs. Thanks 👍🏻
Thank you for watching!
Well. I have covered the Fox spectrum pretty well.
79 Ghia 5.0 auto
85 GT T-top 5-Speed
86 SVO
92 LX 5.0 5-SPEED hatch.
The one I miss most is the SVO. Truly the most balanced of them all with 5 lug 16 inch wheels and great 4 wheel disk brakes. The shocks were adjustable too.
It was a little slower accelerating than the 86 GT until i got a bigger intercooler from a T-Bird TC, ableeder valve to up the boost from 16 PSI to 18 to 20 PSI. Also added a small intercooler fan. Those few mods added 30 or so HP and my SVO could then outrun stock GTs pretty easily.
Later i ported everything, big valves, roller cam, big turbo, upped the compression, built short block, 8.8 inch rear with 4.10 gears. 3 inch exhaust lots of other things Like an SDS Ecu. It then was easily outrunning my friend's LS1 6-Speed Camaro.
Disclaimer: SVO on 91 octane with new engine could only run 12 PSI max boost but was still way faster than stock.
When new engine was fed a few gallons of 100 octane with its regular gas it could push 22 PSI and was bordering psychotic at full boost over 3000 RPM.
It otherwise drove very nice and got 29 MPG on the highway.
I now have an 03 Mach 1 5-speed. Some of the SVOs bits live in my 75 Pinto now. Though its not as powerful making around 250 HP.
Lol. I'm old now.
Thanks for sharing and none of us are getting any younger. :)
Thank you so much for all this valuable info , I will now only by the 1987 cos I love the T-Top and Tilt Steering column ones ❤
Thank you for watching!
Thanks Tony. Great video 👍
Thank you for watching!
I've had nine Mustangs in my life including two fox bodies. I can confidently say up till my first test drive in a buddy's 86 red GT 5 speed, I was a hardcore Ford hater. But one drive in that car instantly converted me and a few months later I had my no option, 88 Regatta blue 5 L 5-speed coupe. I've been hooked and I bleed Ford blue ever since, and of all the Mustangs I've had, I've never been disappointed with any of them. As long as you get a V8 they're great fun and almost bulletproof. Great bang for the buck then and it still holds true now, although the new ones are getting pretty stupidly expensive but that's just the market I guess?
Thanks for watching and sharing your story and I would agree the Mustang is getting too pricey.
Nicely done video! No over the top music or talk. Surprisingly crisp video those commercials especially considering how old they are.
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video!
Thank you very much!
Great video Tony! Can't wait to see the SVO you purchased. Also, I forgot how many special edition mustangs there were that are foxes. I still remember seeing the 7up models around here
Thanks for watching brother!
I learnt so much here. Thanks Tony.
Thanks for watching!
Aussie Ford lover here who just discovered your channel. What a comprehensive story on the Fox body Mustang...thankyou. We never got it down here unfortunately - although it was raced in the local Group A series by Ford stalwart Dick Johnson ...and a couple of other less competitive drivers...during 1985/86. Sadly though Dick had limited success with it...and switched to a Sierra Cosworth when they exploded onto the scene.
Thank you for watching! I have a Falcon XB-GT video posting today. It was a lot fun learning all the details about the car so hopefully it does well and I can discover a few more Aussie Ford's to cover.
Can't wait to see it. Cheers Tony!
Great review of the Foxes. The 79 came out when I was in high school and I read everything I could find. I still remember the 79 Pace Cars, and how I think it was Jack Rousch who was tasked to build three 302-powered hatches. They had modified 302s with four barrels with C-4 transmissions and I think either did not use the TRX suspension, or at least got modified to take Goodyears. Street-wise, none of them were terribly impressive performance wise. Never had anything to do with the turbo fours. In the spring of 82, I test drove a new GT. Probably was not a wise decision for an 18 year old or the salesman. Anyway, it was an experience. I also watched a stock 82 run in an autocross right after a 68-68 BBC Corvette made a Smokey run around the cones. The GT, with limited TRX traction treated us to even more tire smoke. Neither came close to beating the Morris Minors. I do remember starting to see GLXs with 5.0 badges and more conventional, mundane looking wheels in the parking lots of my college campus sometime after 82. They weren’t advertised as an option, but street racers started catching on. I didn’t have much to do with them again until 1992 when I bought a 92 LX. Loved that car. As it still had the 302 with forged pistons, I consider it the pinochle of the Fox bodies. I later drove a same-year SSV notch back with an automatic. The trans was pretty loose by the time I got it. My 92 with subtle mods such as aftermarket headers, K&N, Hurst shifter, subframe connectors had to go after I got married and got kits on the way. I still miss that car. A roller cam 302 turning close to the cutoff through headers and Flowmasters is unique music of its own. When 94 Camaros Z-28s started snowing in the parking lot at work, no one ever offered to challenge me. I suspect that the Camaros would have beaten me, but those American Thunder pipes made a pretty had sound. Ironic that Ford spent so much money developing the Contour/Mystique. You still see a few Fox bodies driving around, and no one even remembers the Contour.
Thanks for watching and sharing!
RE: '79 Pace Car...
Roush, and my uncle Don Bowles (RIP).
(Ask Jack).
And, there were were 5 'real' Pace Cars built- Uncle Don's was the only hardtop (non-T-top).
Great Video! More Fox Body Mustang videos please!
Thank you and I have an entire SVO playlist. ua-cam.com/play/PLz2M3b_orpr23scHlRh4ZKAUpX3G538pi.html
The SROD 4 speed wasn't a Tremec. And the Foxbody GT never came in a Notchback configuration.
If I got a couple of things wrong in a 25 minute video I can live with that.
The 4-speed manual 'SROD' was indeed made my Tremec (in Mexico)
@@foxchassis Bang on. The T-170 SROD was First stamped as an Orion, then as Tremec ,always made in Mexico for FoMoCo by Tremec!
Great vid! Great look back..I am one of the letter writers that saved our beloved Mustang from being ' Probed!') ..Ford actually wrote me back about 4 years after I sent them the letter!😂
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing and for writing that letter!
Great video Tony! 😁
I had 88GT . Fast at that time. Loved it.❤
Thanks Roy! Glad you enjoyed it
Good stuff, thank you!
Thank you!
I know of 1 1981 Cobra that came equipped with the 2.3 turbo. So it wasn't discontinued until 82.
Turbo was available in 1981 and 1982 in Canada only.
the fox body the first mustang lot of us drove mine was a 1979 cobra 5.0 3 door hatch back trx rims @9:51
8:42, 9:35, 9:51 , 12:40, 14:00, 14:25 19:38 ...20:08 my dream mustang ,,,23:09 rare car and manual crank windows to save wt
Excellent video 👍
Thank you!
I tried for yrs to get this old timer to sell me his Pace Car 5.0 Mustang, but it just sat and rusted away, seen it at the local wrecking yard about to go to the crusher for scrap in the late 90's...i cried a little that day : (
That's a sad story. Thanks for sharing.
Tony I learned a lot from this video. Excellent video! One example is I did not know how the seven up cars got their name. Now I do. Thanks for sharing this!
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Thank you for watching!
I just built the 1/25 AMT 88 Mustang GT model kit a week or 2 ago.. came out pretty sharp i think...
Last summer i got a 79 mustang Indy Pace turbo that had been sitting in my neighbors garage for 30 years, I got it for mowing his small yard all summer on top of my regular pay, a total win. It was a little rough but no thru rust and it was complete down to some original TRX wheels. He said last time he checked the car was worthless, and it was in the 90's but i only had the car listed for 15 minutes before i got a hit on my $2500 asking price, and now i see that car out all the time. I'm just sorry it isn't me driving it.
You might have wanted to hold on to that one. Thanks for watching!
🇺🇸👍 Good video,I owned a 64 1/2 Mustang. Today I own 2 Mustang II and a 2016 Mustang 👍
Thank you for the kind words and for watching!
Veen looking forward to this one
I had an 85GT and hated the 87GT, so my next one was an 89 5.0LX. 😊
Thanks for watching and a lot of people love the LX 5 liters.
“It’s easy to pick out the mustang gt from a crowd, not that it’s likely to be in one”
I love the Fox Body Mustang. Its refreshed styling in the mid and late 80s, along with peak horsepower, make it my second most favorite generation or styling after the 1964.5- 1968. I'm a big fan of listening to those late 80s/early 90s 5-speed 302's accelerate. The Fox Body was the return of the original Mustang.
The all-new 1994 Mustang was a huge difference and had me disappointed. It had me thinking of the Mustang II due to its bubbly design and a more plain look vs the Fox Body.
I've always considered the Fox Body to be the fourth or fifth gen. The first gen of the Mustang really looks to be either 2.5 or 3 generations in a short period. Even though the 1964.5-1973 Mustangs were built on the same platform, look at the exterior designs and the big changes in length during its run. 1964.5-1968 would be the first gen. 1969-1970 would be the 1.5 gen. And 1971-1973 would be the second or third gen.
Fox Bodies have been gaining a lot of popularity in the past few years and are becoming more valuable quickly. They're showing up more often now in auctions and are becoming a collector's car.
I agree with a lot of what you had to say on this one. The generations are decided by Ford. They really do not need a reason or a platform change. IF they want to call a car a new gen it is. The Fox Body cars are definitely on the rise in the collect car market.
I had a 79 cobra ...black with red interior....i bought it in 1990 ....i thi k the engine was bored....it had a 2 barrel but it was fast...0-60 in 6 seconds...
The 3.8 could be had in the coupe and hatch in 1985, as well as the convertible. It was optional at ordering. Love the video...and the old fox body. Mine is an 86 base coupe with a 5.0 5 speed...in Sand Beige on tan guts.
I'm sure I have a few details that are off here and there. There is so much to cover over that time span. Thanks for sharing and watching!
@@TonysFordsandMustangs No problem, man, it's a lot of history!
@@EffequalsMA IF UA-cam would allow creators to edit errors post upload it would be really helpful. All we can do at the moment it cut out segments. For a team of one like myself it's tough to get everything right even after reviewing things multiple times.
@@TonysFordsandMustangs Wow, I did not know that wasn't possible. Kinda disappointing that.
Great info, but you left out the M81 McLaren Mustang program.
There were so few of them and I spent 30 Hours putting the video together. Thanks for watching!
I bought an ‘82 GT brand new $10500!
I’d like to hear some insider stories on why it got ugly again in 94 and then back to wonderfully badass in 2005.
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It's funny you say that as the SN95 was considered badass at the time and sold very well. I guess tastes change over time, or things look different in the rearview mirror? I like an SN95 when they are done right. That car was really a beefed up Fox Body refresh.
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I’m a bit embarrassed now that I remember how my opinion was formed. I was mostly neutral for a couple years and then my wife and I rented one while on vacation. Yeah I know I should have ignored what I didn’t like about it, it was a rental fer cryin out loud. Anyway, both my elbows got beat up by hard plastic and no matter how I tried to avoid it, it just continued. Left ankle payed with pain since my left foot could not find a spot that didn’t bend or twist it. A week before our vacation the rental company promised me a GT. Nope.
A high mileage, low maintenance flapping ragtop 4-cylinder with a slipping slush box was the only car available. It wasn’t really the car’s fault that the vacation failed to save our marriage (that was honestly the intent 🤨).
Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one and they usually stink, although possibly for the wrong reason sometimes. I accept the opportunity to be today’s stinkbomb.
Hold your breath, ignore the fool and gallop right on by. It’s only temporary,
he’ll be fine. 🥴
@@ridermak4111 I owned a SN95 GTS for a few years and the interior in that car wasn't ever really comfortable so I understand your issues with it. IF I were a taller person I'm sure it would have been worse. IF I added a 2.3, auto driveline and the weight of a convertible I'm sure I too would have hated it. Thanks for your understanding.
Do the capri I got a turbo rs 84 with t tops
Very cool car. Sooner or later there will be a Capri video. Thanks for watching!
93 hardtop cobra. It had all the numbers but it didn't add up I wasn't impressed Georgie's 90 LX convertible was even faster in the 83 mustang with 175 horsepower. They were quite snappy
These are fantastic videos Tony. High quality, lots of research, love the commercials and print ads you find and put in, and you have a great voice for narration as well. Quality stuff... FAR better than so much CRAP coming out of Netflix, Disney, Hollywood, etc. Your kind of content is what has replaced television watching for me. Please keep it coming.
Thank you so much! As a one man operation it takes a lot of time to research, write, collect, edit, shoot, and do the voice overs. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and hopefully you check out a few others.
Good stuff, thanks Tony! Had a 67 2+2 when i was a youngin, of course wish I'd kept that one. Maybe im an oddball, but was never a big fan of the 80s-90s body style. They're ok, but much prefer the SN95 & up or the old origionals like my 67.
The SN-95 video is on my to do list. Thanks for watching!
I don't recall anyone calling them "foxbodies" until the internet.... And I sold Fords in the 80s.
I know it's the platform name, but you just didn't hear folks using it.
I sold Fords in late 80's and we didn't call them Foxbodies either.
I don’t think a single Foxbody was built with 12” wheels and I’m doubting any were made with 13” wheels. 12” wheels might have been on the Pinto based Mustang II?
That seemed odd to me as well when I read it and I should have double checked it prior to adding that. You are correct no Mustang's came with a 12" wheel. The base combo for a 79 & 80 was indeed 13 inch tall wheels and tires. Multiple sources confirm that. Thanks for watching!
Yes, as Tony said, 13" wheels were indeed available. Even bias ply tires were available too.
By underpinnings you mean the form of the unibody frame under the car, right?😎
I assume you are talking about the end of the video regarding the SN-95? If so yes that's what I am referring to. It was strengthened but was still a Fox at heart.
@@TonysFordsandMustangs Thanks for the info. I've been thinking about getting another Mustang to drive while restomodding my 99.😎
Having both mustang and probe ended up.being smart. Both covered different segments of the sporty car market and had more fords in more driveways.
While todays mustang is awesome, look how far the rest of fords "lineup" had fallen. Just a few crossovers are all thats left. No vans, no cars, no near luxury cars, etc. What a shame.
Looking back at the 8ps and 90s the huge variety of models, trims, colors, etc gave buyers a huge amount of choice. Today we have like 3 suvs that look almost the same, in boring colors, all with dull same interiors, etc. Yet they wonder why people arent rushing in to buy fords... other than Mustang, nothing tells me to come in and buy a ford.
I can't disagree with anything you have said. The Mustang being the ONLY car in the Ford line up saddens me greatly. The only issue is the sale #'s for the Mustang itself are also truly sad. 48,605 Mustangs were sold in 2023 in total in the U.S. People in America love SUV's and that's just fact. I have never owned one and I will resist as long as I am able to do so. I find most of the modern SUV's to be really good at nothing. They can't hual very much, they don't handle very well, they get awful gas mileage. There isn't much to like about them in their current form and yet they continue to sell. I believe it's because people think they are cooler than they actually are and they like to sit up in traffic.
His best friend had a 93 hardtop soft triple black. His roommate had that flat nosed RX7 never could him those WinCo's had stupid RPM
I had an 82 GT hardtop roller motor single-plane intake and a Holley 650. 5-speed. And that damn pinto rear end.308. my best friend had a 87 RX7. I can jump them in first and second gear rolling out third he just passed me at 7000 rpms. Dick
I owned a RX7 back in the 90's for a couple of months and yes in burned oil like they all did at some point. Mazda could never get the seals to last.
Almost all the Fox Body Mustangs came with 4-bolt wheels, even the ones with the 5.0 V8. But there were a few that came with 5-bolt wheels, and I believe those were made in the later model years of the Fox Body. In my opinion, ALL the V8 Fox Bodies should have had the 5-bolt wheels.
Yes they should have and that was squared away with the SN95.
I thought a 93 cobra never had anything to do with being a mustang … i was told it said Cobra on the title and it had cobra emblems and not the running horse .. is that true or not? I seen the red car you showed while you was talking about the 93 cobra had the running horse emblem on it . Educate me on that !
It's a Mustang SVT Cobra. It's Mustang first and foremost. The world knows them as Mustang SVT Cobras. I hope that helps.
@@TonysFordsandMustangs it does .. i sure wished i could remember where i got my info at … im wanting ti say its from when i worked at ted russell ford in knoxville tn but who knows .. after 50 years on planet earth i tend to forget things .. thanks my friend !!!!
@@glennramsey917 It doesn't get any easier at 57 years. :) Take care
1993 Mustang SVT Cobra has same VIN body code (6th and 7th positions) as the 1987-93 Mustang GT...
P40 = Mustang LX 2-door sedan (coupe)
P41 = Mustang LX 3-door hatchback
P42 = Mustang GT and SVT Cobra 3-door hatchback
P44 = Mustang LX 2-door convertible
P45 = Mustang GT 2-door convertible
The 1994-2004 is all so a fox platform, just revised through the last ten years and carried different names. SN95, and New Edge. But still the fix platform.
Correct. I working on a SN95 video as I type this and owned a 95 GTS for several years. There is a New Edge video on the channel already so this video covers the 94 through 98 models.
My brother showed up with an 86 SVO when I still have my mustang.. I beat him. Then we switch cars and he beat me, that was my big brother
Lord rest my big brother stole a mustang from Tysons corner Virginia for $100 . 91 LX convertible 5 l traction bars subframe connectors Monte Carlo born at 3:55 rear in a shift kit that was a fast little car
How could the 2.3l turbo return mid 1983 with fuel injection when Google says the 1986 GT is the first Mustang with fuel injection?
The 86 GT was the first "V8" that was fuel injected true. But the 83 GT 2.3 Turbo was fuel injected as were all the SVO's which were built from 84 through 86. Maybe try that search again?
First V8 Mustang with fuel injection was model year 1984. All 1984 and 1985 Mustang 5.0L with automatic transmission (AOD) had fuel injection, with two injectors mounted at the top of the throttle body. Ford called it "central fuel injection" (CFI). Model year 1986 was the first for "multi-port" (one per cylinder) fuel injection.
I owned that 2.3 turbo 79 indy stang. Hated the fact that they put these stupid 390 mm rims on them. try finding tires. Sold it maybe in the late 80's. I was thrilled to get $1200 for it.
Everyone hated getting tires for those cars back then and $1,200 went a lot farther in the 1980's. Thanks for watching!
That scoop didn't provide any clearance for anything. It's just bolted onto the standard steel hood. The turbo system fit neatly under hood with plenty of room to spare. The hoodscoop was a decorative non-functional item.
I went by what was printed in multiple sources. Sometimes they are all wrong. Thanks for watching.
Body color moldings was standard in 92 not 93 .
When you are one person researching, writing, editing, and producing a 25 + minute informational video you do the best can. I'm sure there are other inaccuracies here and there as well. Hopefully you enjoyed the majority of it.
10:13 the white 83 glx convertible I own that exact car all original in my drive way it looks identical to that picture holy shit lmao 🤣 I daily it 🤣 car was found on a farm it just hit 90k miles. 3.8 essex
That's awesome! Glad to hear it's being used as intended.
Fox Body Thunderbird
Yes sir that video can be found right here. ua-cam.com/video/-1OQAul360s/v-deo.html
I think I wrote in during the whole FWD Mustang fiasco to ask Ford to not do it!
Seriously ford should have named the 7up models as sprite model
.308 rear end in a pinto rear end 82 was an MR2 kick my ass and everything over a hundred miles an hour that front end was moving around to quote Eddie money the late great she was a shaken just snapping her fingers
I have a 1992 LX 5.0 Convertible , White , White top , Red interior with 22,000 actual miles that I put on it Iam the original owner. Side note on 1992 production its the lowest rate production in the Mustang history so far.
Thanks for watching and sharing!
Those 5.0 Mustangs were deceptively fast. Sadly, a friend of mine flipped his 89 Mustang GT, entering the freeway, killing him instantly. It let me know you have to respect these car's power and drive them carefully.
Sorry to hear about your friend. It's true of any powerful car.
Yes Now that I think about it, someone else I knew, rolled one in high school. They weren't really hurt, but it got them expelled in our senior year.
I think Ford made a big mistake when they introduced the SVO as a different variant of Mustang the SVO had unique styling and the should have made that package the Mach 1 or HO instead of taking all the SVO changes and dumped them.
I don't disagree however I think they were trying to present the car as "high tech" and wanted to distinguish from prior Mustangs. I have a video on that car and why I think it never became a sales success. ua-cam.com/video/q7tolY03Wpg/v-deo.html
@@TonysFordsandMustangs I guess timing was the demise of the SVO. I had a Thunderbird Turbo Coupe that contained most of the SVO's tech and at the time it was a unique product but over the years I found it to be underpowered I sold that Turbo coupe in 2014 with only 29,000 on the odometer. I always thought "T" Bird was too big for the SVO package and the V8 rumble rained Supreme. Unfortunately the Super Coupe didn't do well either when they didn't initially offer a V8 and when the did it was smashed under that low hood and performance again suffered. Oh well it's all history.
@@markcollins457 I really think it came down to the price in the end. SVO's were too much money. They were 35% more than a GT. Ford had no issues selling the 87/88 turbo coupes. BTW those Turbo Coupes were bigger, had more options, and cost less than an SVO.
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The 1979 did come with a rear spoiler. Right after you said it didn't your video clearly proved you incorrect.
When you are a team of one making videos out a side office there will be a mistake from time to time. In a video this long I'm sure there's a couple.
Lets hope all the people who wrote all those letters about the Probe being associated with the Mustang didn't make it to see the "Mach E".
It still pisses me off and I'm in my 30's lol
I don't get too upset about the Mach E because there's still a V8 Mustang on the lot. IF there wasn't I would flip out.
Never liked them... until the 88-91 models.. Still, they were nothing more than Shortened Fajrmonts..
I came close to put in 373 in the 82. I couldn't beat that f****** Mazda