There is a lot of foxbody haters out there but I will always have a soft spot for them. I know your average shitbox has more horse power and moms minivan can go 0-60 in the same time but these were just about untouchable back in the day and are still fun as hell to drive today. They are cheaper than a drug habit and will get you in less trouble than a hooker and are more fun than both of them put together so that's why I have two of them.
HaHaHa….. love it! " I know your average shitbox has more horse power and moms minivan can go 0-60 in the same time"..... awesome! Agreed with everything you said.
I have to admit i've warmed up to the fox platform over the past decade or so. I've been a camaro owner almost all of my adult life and daily a ZL1. But every now and then I come across a 5.0 5-spd on Facebook or Craigslist and I pause and think about it. One of these days i'll probably pull the trigger on one but i've got other project vehicles in line to work on.
5.6 sec 0-60 is still damn good for today’s numbers for a sports car. This car still looks beautiful! Although there should have been an optional upgrade from the factory for a heavy duty ash tray lid since those always broke!
Yeah, in 1993, that's really good - faster than I thought they'd be as breaking 6-seconds was a huge deal back then. As for the looks - I think it looks much better now than it did at the time. I'd have been 18 at the time, and I thought the Mustang looked really old and dated compared to the new GM ponies. Now I'd say it looks better - not that I was ever a big fan of that car, it always looked cheap to me. I did own a 1982 Mustang at one point, it was truly a POS, so maybe that negatively flavors my opinion.
I used to love watching this show on the weekends. I was 17 in 1993 and that's what boys did back then, drool over cars they couldn't have. I had posters of cars all over my bedroom. Cool time to be a kid. I miss the 80's and 90's, such a better time.
I like your post dude, but you're going to find reasons to look back on when you posted this and feel the same way. You can trust that. If not, something has gone majorly wrong in one's personal life. It is what it is. Peace.
Our PD had a 93 LX Police Package. It was quick and we kept 5 years and 150k. Several clutches and 2 transmissions but the 302 never failed. Great car and it had a rough life.
I remember my dad getting pulled over by one of those in Vancouver on a family trip. He’d rented a Taurus SHO and even as a young kid I could tell what he was thinking at the time...
I grew up in the northern US during this era. The brand new 1993 car, bright sun, snowy forest and the birds of spring chirping. Please let me go back.
A few years ago I went to look at a 93 GT convert with only 40k on it. When he pulled the cover off I was impressed it just looked great. But when he started it I couldn't stop grinning. Those flowmasters just sounded too good. Its all original except the mufflers and 4.10s in the rear. I grinned all the way home and I'm grinning now as it's in my garage still.
Humble Wisdom 4.10’s are great in these cars. Great in Trans-Am/Firebird, Camaro’s, and Corvettes too (or 4.11’s). Had them in my C5 Corvette with the T-56 transmission. It enabled me to hit an indicated 210 mph (I know that sounds unbelievable but it’s true). I had ~550 whp. The factory 3.42 gearing would top out around 175-180 in 5th but 6th was too tall to pull; the shorter gearing allowed it to pull in 6th. It also helped it pull harder off the line.
I WILL SAY THIS MAN I HAVE A 87 MUSTANG GT AND I HAVE A 92 ANIVERSREY CAMERO Z28 AND HONESTLY MY 87 GT IS DEFINITELY A LITTLE BIT FASTER BUT WHEN IT COMES TO HANDLEING MY Z28 HOLDS THE ROAD A LOT BETTER THAN MY GT.
Back in the day before drag radials I don’t think much of anything beat mine to 60 w/ a set of gears. Didn’t make enough hp to be competitive after that though.
The 0-60 time is on par with a 2019 Challenger R/T 5.7. Darned respectable. Motorweek’s classic reviews always blow my mind. They’re so “of the moment” and perfect. I wish I could shake Mr. Davis’ hand and thank him.
Did the Ford people hassle you into trading it in? I bought a '91 GT brand new and took 4 years to pay for it. So in '95, Ford bugged the shit out of me about trading the car in for a '94 Mustang. They said "Your car is out of style so upgrade now!" THANK GOD I DIDN'T LISTEN! I still have my 5.0 in my garage!
70's mustang was the ugliest ever, many people dislike the fox but i think they can look good. my fav modern style is either new edge or second gen s197's. theres a guy with a 93 teal cobra the next block over, not my fav color but it's a nice car.
Still got my black '93 Cobra. I love it as much now as when it was new. Garage queen that still looks and drives like new. The addition of an SN-92 Paxton in the mid 90's makes it all that much more fun to drive. Everything else remains stock.
Those things are going insane in price lately. One in auction just pulled $90,000. But it was a 10 mile car with the window sticker still on it. I guess that’s expected with a single year special with only 5000 produced. I remember when the terminator Cobra came out you could pick up a low mile ‘93 for around $12,000-$15,000. That’s probably as low as they ever got
You know what would be a good web series? "The Cars Of Motor Week: Where Are They Now?". A RU-vidr tracks down cars that once had 15 minutes of fame as test vehicles. Say he finds this Cobra in someone's backyard overgrown in weeds. That episode could be called, "Snake in the Grass".
They were able to do that with a lot of the Top Gear cars, but as I understand the license plate number stays with the car for its lifetime so that’s easier to do
For people who think this is a slow 5.6 seconds for 0-60, for the time period it was very fast, considering the Lamborghini Diablo at the same time was only capable of 4.4.
You decided? I went to buy a Ranger and fell in love with it and I didn't have a chance to decide, it was love at first sight.....still in love with it, have driven it everywhere and still only 72k miles on it, but well driven fun driving for sure!
@@CaptainFALKEN Wrong, a clean GT can go upwards of 10k, before cash for clunkers, you could pick up a low mile mint GT for $1500, LX for 500-750, not so anymore
It doesn't matter if it was the worst car in the world. If it had Voltage and oil pressure gauges, John Davis approved of it hahaha. This is a badass car
This was such a good way to say farewell to the fox body. Still a beautiful car. I remember when it was in style to make your 87-93 Mustang a 93 Cobra replica
Yup, I planned to do the same and an older friend who was a mechanic said "don't." "Don't cut the dash and don't throw away any of the original parts, not even the 2.73 gears." Can't tell you how many times those dusty boxes almost went to the land fill. Now that I am older I understand what he meant but at the time, not so much.
Ford should bring back the 87 - 93 mustang like they did with the 64 - 66. It would be another smash hit. I miss those generation cars. So simple to work on so much potential.
If I had the choice right now between my current S197 Mustang GT and my old 1993 Foxbody GT,I'm going with the Fox hands down. Parts are cheap,easy to work on and modify,they look and sound great!
Had a 93, bought it, blew it up, and sold it for only 600 less than I paid lol. It was real beat up but perfectly optioned, LX 5.0 hatchback with a manual, heavily modded.
It's the torque, man. These things could plant you in your seat up to 4th gear. I used to make my friend's sister scream at me when I would launch it. My 88 GT could run 13.9 without GT40 heads or cam. Just cobra upper and lower with headers, h pipe, but no after market mufflers. MAF deleted and bumped timing, the old tricks.
This Cobra's instruments designer must have been watching Motorweek back in the day. He knows John would make sure he was unsatisfied if the oil pressure guage and volt meter was not on the instrument panel or blocked by the steering wheel.
ah do i remember these days being a kid out cruising in my super coupe crankin the acdc and metallica still got the old super coupe in my garage not much changed with it but alot sure has with the kid that use to sit behind the wheel time changes us no matter how much we say were gonna stay a kid when we're young :-/
I bought a 92 LX5.0 in 1995 when i was 19. I now own a 2009 Corvette that could've beaten my old fox body just using 2nd gear, but the Mustang was still more fun to drive, and my favorite car i ever owned.
For all the improvements in cars over the years I still long for the old 87-93 mustangs. Pump these cars up with mods to 400-500 hp nothing is more fun!
270 horsepower. I have seen the 93 Cobra easily make 270 horsepower on the dyno. But the same 93 Cobra I saw make that number only delivered a bizarre 277 lb ft of torque. I will say that that car was VERY damn fast. From what I remember it was completely stock no mods.
Lol, I still have the tape deck and equalizer (extra cost option) I pulled out of mine when the cassette got stuck with a single of NIN Head Like a Hole inside when I was in college. I lasted 9 months with that song playing ("God money I'll do anything for you....God money just tell me what you want me to") on endless loop when I drove it. Then I took a steak knife to the deck and forced the tape out. Still have the car with 24k on the odo.
I was living in Boulder Colorado back in 1993 and I remember the ford dealer there had lots of these and LX 5.0s and convertibles on the lot. The orange ones with white rims. Seems like yesterday.
This is the year the base 5.0 was downrated 20 horsepower to 205. They were trying to downplay the fox bodies to make the 1994s which would be rated at 215 horsepower look like an improvement. For sure the 1993 cobra made more then stated but they couldn’t fluff it up too much and then kill the car. It hurt sales for sure.
@@nicolem.792 good points. The GT's from 94-98 were so disappointing & underpowered. My friend had a brand new 98 GT & he was shocked when my 91 T-Bird Supercoupe blew him away from a dig
@@nicolem.792 with the non Pi heads yea, the 99's came with the Pi heads and it was night and day difference. They were damn near as quick as the 4 valve Cobras
@@BrownBomber92181 never experienced the 260 hp version of the 4.6 but I remember the 96. Smooth compared to the old 5.0 but the torque wasn’t there. Ford should have started with the Pi heads I suppose.
I had a Teal Green with a b303 cam, exhaust, gears, and some other minor bolt ons and it was a 12 second car (with a better driver than me). Should have never sold. I'd trade the comp orange 04 I have now for one in a heartbeat!
The elevation is 935’ at my local track and it was mid 60* weather when I ran 13.88@100 in my 94 Z28 M6. The best results from testing 0-60 I’ve seen on my year Z was 5.7 but more typically I see 5.8-6 seconds. From a dig a fox body about this quick will take me out of the hole until some place in 2nd gear and then I creep by. From a rolling start like 20 and I’m in 1st I eat him up and walk. Those fox bodies launch great. When a car with 50 less hp and 50lbs less torque can run with or beat you light to light.. the suspension is doing work! The fox was my arch enemy from when I started driving in 1993. I had a 1968 Impala 327/275. Flip the air cleaner lid and I bet it was close to 300hp. The inlet on the air cleaner assembly was about the size of a half dollar and the car ran way harder after about 2500 rpm so that and dual exhaust and I beat many 5.0 fox all from a roll but I’d pull them hard. I also beat a C4 Vette who took a running start from my rear bumper from about 70 and he got about half way past me as I shifted drive and started creeping right back by him with 3 witnesses in my car. Next was my 84 Monte SS and I got my ass kicked every time except for a cavalier3.1 5spd which I barely beat and I barely beat my buddy in his 3.1 94 camaro then got my 94 Z28 and beat lots of cobra, fox 5.0, Buick t-type, 95 Trans Am auto highway roll from 70 beat him bad, early 70s ElCamino 454 that I saw running 14.0@98 at the strip. Older guy kept stalking me around town and I finally caught up with him on a 10mph roll it was fed even except for every time I’d powershift my Z would jump ahead about 2.5’-3’ and I ended up pulling him to about my rear axle. That was a great race. Next thing you know a few weeks later I see his work truck with a small block on an engine stand with fresh Chevy orange paint. After that he was running 11s and I never saw him on the street anymore. It was cooler with the big block but he couldn’t have a young guy around town whoopin on him lmao. Hope you enjoyed the read. The Z was beat once by a T-Bucket with what sounded about like a stock truck engine (abc) but don’t weigh much. At the light the guy asked if my car had a 305.. I was thinking he doesn’t know much about newer cars. I took off hard out of the hole he responded and it fell on its face for a second as the secondaries opened... typical quadrajet that needs a little more spring pressure adjusted but as soon as it got past that he walked me.. more of a jog lol but I had to try.
I worked at an auction when we got several 95 Mustang Cobra CSVs ( customer service vehicles) with meant vehicles driven by Ford employees in Michigan. We got several other unique units like that, like F-150 Lightnings and Thunderbird SCs. That being said; they were either abused or babied. We also had GM vehicles and the V-8 Camaros stomped the Mustang GTs, but that Cobra was a special snake as were the future ones in the next few years. Ford should've capitalized on that at that time.
I went looking for one back in 93 but the last one on the lot was already sold. I ended up buying a used 89 Saleen Mustang which I still have today. Love the 93 Cobra's but the Saleen was a good compromise.
My sister got a black/w graphite interior 93 Cobra with 9,612 miles on it sitting in her garage. Her husband purchased the car brand new in May 1993 the day before Mothers day. Drove it and put 6,888 miles on it, put it up for the winter and never drove it again, due to the fact that he was killed in an accident in February 1994. To this day she only drive it to get it washed from sitting in her garage collecting dust, or for a short drive to keep the battery up and keep brakes from locking up.
I have a 1983 4 eyed fox. She is the 3rd mustang I have owned and it's a GT 302 4bbl tremec 5 speed. You can wind up those 302s all day long and not kill them. My 1990 LX notch back was quicker outta the hole but the 83 has mid range power that's impressive. I can get to 80 mph in 3rd gear easily and have had her going 133 mph but had to back out of her because Texas wind gust almost blew me off the road LOL. Fucking YIKES. I am older so I love the fact that I can drive it daily without the backseat. Just black carpet from the buckets to the tail lights. Also I love the dual ram air set up into my Edelbrock 4bbl. She always gets to drink fresh cool air. It was sold brand new and spent her whole life in Texas, zero rust anywhere but Texas heat killed the paint. Factory a/c car and still turns her compressor. I just love the aggressive look of the 4eye fox. I respect all the real made to get after it cars but this car is simple to work on, old school cool and really does haul the mail.
I love all 3, Camaro, Challenger & Mustang, but Pony Car wars? In terms of annual sales, the Camaro only bested Mustang 8 out of 53 years. And the Mustang is the only one that can claim over 50 years of continuous production.
biggest seller and longest in production doesn't make it the best car. they just sold more, for longer. most years the camaros and firebirds were acknowledged as superior road cars.
Steven silverman uh biggest seller and longest in production does kinda make it the best car, otherwise it wouldn't keep winning in the sales numbers, which in reality is the only numbers that matter. You can have the fastest car in the world that will do all sorts of things, but none of that matters really if it doesn't sell well
Not a ford guy but If I was to buy one a 93 svt cobra like this would be my pick! I’ve only got to see one 93 svt mustang cobra in person and it was in that teal color.
One in my garage, Vibrant red, bought it in August of 93, only $19,500 out the door, almost traded it in a few years later, but now has 72k on it and its just a weekend fun car now. Have a few bot ' that I added, but have all the original parts to put back except the original tires and shocks that went bad and were replaced with Tokiko adjustable.
Camaro fan here.... But I LOVE the '93 Cobra big time. By far the best looking Mustang ever. Clean and modern for the day. I've owned many Camaros and hated Mustangs when I was young. Loved to beat them and hated it when I lost to one. My first Camaro was a new '84 Z28 5.0 HO 5 speed and it was very fast in the day.....had it for 6 years. Raced many friends with 5.0 Mustangs and beat most. My buddy had an '87 5.0 Mustang LX 5 speed and that was the closest to my Camaro, almost identical every time. Quicker then the GT's in my experience. In '93 the Cobra was crazy expensive and no where near the car that the '93 Z28 was of course…. but I would love to own one now. LOVE the 93 Cobra!
Your full of shit...your shitty camaro wasnt that fast....damn chevy people never know when there defeated....your biased so bad for chevy its coming out your ears.....
