Meeting another "classic" Mustang owner...

[Kit Sullivan]

Whenever I meet someone who happens to mention they own a classic Mustang, I get a little more interested. I instantly kinda' size em up mentally and try to determine what kind of "classic Mustang guy" they might be...without letting them know I am also a "Mustang guy".
Let's see...does he drive a nice 65-66 'vert? Maybe he's got a clean '68 daily-driver family hand-me-down '68 coupe? Or what if hes got a nicely-restored thundering '69 Mach 1?

All these thoughts race through my mind, and I eventually ask as casually as possible "Oh really? What kind"?



"Oh, its a '91 GT. My dad bought it new and now I'm restoring it."



As much as I like the our Foxy siblings...it just ain't the same to me. I try to hang in there with the "mutal appreciation thing", but as soon as they start in on the "gonna' add a NOS system with 90-lb injectors, some blue HIDs and some kickin' 20" dubs along with...", I lose all interest.

Oh well....

[1969_Mach1]

Yeah, I like the late model muscle cars, Mustangs and Challengers. But their just not in the same category as the late 60's early 70's muscle cars. I too cannot get excited about them like any of the classic Muscle cars. Maybe its my age. But I always wonder if people buying the late model Mustangs and Challengers fully appreciate or are aware of their roots.

For me the late model stuff is a little too refined for me to call them muscle cars. I'm used to muscle cars being a little more crude, no A/C, take more effort to drive, have a rougher ride, idle qualities that shake the car, and the smell of exhaust fumes that haven't passed through a catalytic converter.

Anyway, my 2 cents.

Regards,
Mike

[JTS71 Mach1]

Yeah I have to agree with both of you. It's flat amazing, the kind of performance they are achieving, with the late model stuff, but it's about the experience! The, get in, shut up, and hang on, would not be as terrifying, if it weren't for the feel, the sound, the shaking, rattling, and rumble, that reaches down deep into one's soul and ignites a passion in our hearts. Just as surely as Autolite plugs, light the fuel and create the flames, that reach up, and lick our faces, as we look down the throat of the carb when starting a new engine. If it wasn't for sensations like that, life would be real boring. Performance is great, but give me the thrill, the sounds, and smells, of the chase! JTS 71 Mach1

[Mach1FatherFigure]

+1 on above It is also usual to find that the 'new' gonnas' don't actually know how to do it all, they are just handing the car over to some wiser and richer bloke with a lap-top PC to re-programe everything. No sport in that AT ALL!!.

[Kit Sullivan]

It's not so much a comparison to our "classic" originals to the later models( really, there is no comparison...the newer cars are just all-around better, and that trend continues).
I just can't grasp the concept that a car ( any car) from the late 80s-early 90s can now legitimately be considered a "classic". Just shows I'm getting old, I guess!

When my '71 was only 8-10 years old, talking about it like it was a "classic" was met with derision and laughter from the "old gaurd"at the time.
They always said "some cars become classics, most just become old used-cars. Yours will just be an old used car."
Little did they know back then, but....

Is it " little do we know now"?

[Steven Harris]

I have an 88 GT convertible and no I do not consider it to be in the same league as my 73 Mach 1.

Evidently it is not in the same league with the new Mustangs either.

It will become a classic but owning a 73 Mach 1 is just a different game than the 88 will ever be.

I too would loose interest quite quickly if someone was talking about their classic Mustang and it turned out to be a Fox body. Moving on ..

[gxr02190]

Fox bodies make good drag cars...... They just don't have the "look". The interiors don't do much for me either.

[Mustangmike]

Fox bodies make good drag cars...... They just don't have the "look". The interiors don't do much for me either.

I always wanted to buy a Fox body Mustang to enter into the smoke show pits at the local shows.

By the time the Fox body becomes a classic car then classics will be antiques.

Any who, I like them all!

[JTS71 Mach1]

Fox bodies make good drag cars...... They just don't have the "look". The interiors don't do much for me either.

Yeah the interior had to much cheapo depot "Fairmont" look to it. JTS 71 Mach1

[Mach1FatherFigure]

At the risk of proving I live on an island backwater - 'Fox Body'?