That has been my dream car since I was 6 years old. Now that I’m old enough to buy (afford) one, nobody will part with one that hasn’t been ragged out. Had to settle on an 83 t top that I also love and adore. 👍
I had my (second) one a couple of years ago, and, like the first (that I got new in 93), I had to sell it, as well! I still vow to get my third and KEEP it!
I bought a 79 Cobra and built myself. Yep it got laughed at when i went to our local street drags because 79 was a 140 hp...what they didnt know it I built a 351/427 small block with a built C-6 and a 8.8 373 posi rear. It wiped the smile off a lot of faces at our local races.
Was it a 351 or a 427? Windsor or Cleveland? Had a 351W with trick flow top end, it was boosted at engine shop and made 725 on lean tune, once tuned 900 all day, lots of boost left but I just built it & didn't want to kill it before it went in the car! How's c6 trans? I know you can have em beefed up at trans shop, that's what I did to stock trans I had, had em build it to handle 800hp
@@ryatt1 they used to be cheap, My lx 5.0 coupe stickered for just over 12k brand new, I bought my first one in the mid 90's for 4k when I was 15, owned too many of them to count but still own that one.
Had always wanted a Mustang. Finally, at age 41, I bought a brand-new 1989 5.0, five speed manual Mustang Fox Body LX. Loved it! Nine years and 67k trouble free miles later, I traded it on an Explorer to pull a boat. I still miss my Mustang.
I had an 88 LX with the 4 banger in it in 1991, bought it when i was 17......Drove it every day until i was 36!! loved that thing, I didn't care how slow it was... i loved it. Had 215,000 miles on it when i retired it, it was puffing blue smoke on start up, leaking oil, etc...but it still started up and ran every day.
Haha me too. In the mid-late 90s, I had a white '89 LX 4cyl that was previously my brother's first car. It had a set of wide black American Racing wheels on it (like the Saleen basket weave wheels), and a sway bar kit. It handled great. Yes it was SLOW, but the 5 speed made it fun, and it was a super reliable car. I think the alternator was the only thing that ever failed on me.
I’ve owned 3 and im 25. My first car was an 86 SVO, then a 88 GT, and now a 86 GT. I still own it. Love the 4 eye cars. Nothing screams 80s more. Great cars.
I owned 4 Fox Body 5.0's back in the 90's and early 2000's. Call me biased but any 5.0 Fox Body with an H-Pipe and Flowmaster muffler is one of the best exhaust notes ever. Add headers, shorty or long tube, and it gets even better. My preference was shorty headers. My dad's neighbor 4 houses down has a 93 Teal Cobra just like this video. I fall in love with it every time I see it.
I built several foxbody cars. They were my first love. I'm 34, my dad fronted me the money for a 90 Notch back when I got my license in 2003. We kinda shared it. He had epilepsy growing up, so he never got his license. Through advances in medical technology he was able to get his license right around when I did. He got his first ticket with me passing a cop in an industrial park doing 85 lol. The last foxbody I built had a 351W with TF heads, 100 shot and a TKO 600. Now I have a Vortech V3'd 2001 GT. So I'd have to disagree a bit with the video. The 99-04 cars are so far superior in every single way over a fox. And the fox market is so crazy inflated it's not even worth sniffing them. Love the content, cheers!
Never forget my buddy got a new 88 LX 5.0. The LX had the power, suspension, brakes, etc., and weighed less than the GT. It was insanely fast, faster than every Camaro, Firebird, Corvette, and all the muscle cars, big block or not. Beyond that, it was a nice comfortable car. Great memories of a simpler, more happy time
Great video Sam. I grew to really appreciate these when working at Ford in the early 90’s. So easy to modify and really comfortable to drive hard. Stout. Simple. That “5.0”. And have started to look better in hindsight. That’s a very fine example.
I don't know how many I've had over the years. I drove tow truck in Detroit, I towed hundreds of stripped mustangs. Bought alot of them from the tow auction and put alot back together. I got lucky a few times and got some with less than a 1000mi. I didn't keep any cause I was afraid of them getting stolen. They were easy to work on and interchange easy.
same story with a lot of cars, youtube and the internet hasn't helped that either. north american ae86's shot up in the last couple years, miata's have been rising, s2k prices are still going bananas
Bought a '79 Indy Pace Car Edition new off the showroom floor. Heads, Cam Intake, Headers, Suspension mods. It was a great car! Sold it to a friend who eventually sent it to the bone yard... I saw another unadulterated Indy edition at the "Steve McQueen - Boy's Republic" show about ten years ago. Really brought back memories! He paid only a little more than the new car price about a year prior.
Great info here. I had a 1990 GT for 10 years, wish I had never sold it. I installed a lot of Maximum Motorsports suspension parts to make it handle including H&R Springs & Bilstein shocks, did a 5 lug swap and went to '99+ Mustang front brakes, poly bushings everywhere and poly engine & trans mounts, short shifter, changed to 3.27 gears, 2 1/2 inch exhaust with a X pipe and chambered mufflers, underdrive pulleys, clutch fan delete (installed an electric fan), and a completely bone stock engine. Super fun car. The suspension and brake upgrades made it much more balanced so that you could actually utilize the power it had. The lower gears, UD pulleys and mechanical fan delete made a huge difference in how fast the motor could gain RPM even though the last two probably only added maybe 20 extra HP. I would've done 3.55 gears but it was my only car at the time and I did a lot of highway commuting... it always super reliable too. Even with the stock engine that car had no problem roasting the rear tires through the first two gears. One time I smoked the tires all the way down my block at the request of my neighbors and the stripes were there for months. 😂 The main thing for most people to keep in mind if you're just looking for performance and don't care about options is that all '87 to '93 5.0's have the same exact same drivetrain regardless of if they are an LX or GT or what other options they have. of course the LX with fewer options is going to be lighter than GT a with power everything, and the coupe or notchback body is lightest of them all with the convertibles being the heaviest and also most flexible chassis.
This is quite a interesting generation of Mustang. The car could be had with all kinds of engine options...I4, I6 (the ancient Falcon mill), and several V6 and V8 offerings. From carburetors, to throttle body, and eventually port injection. The most interesting, IMHO, was the turbo Lima I4 that was installed in the SVO....the first 'Ecoboost'.
Yep, that classic 5.0 sound! It's unmistakeable. An X pipe with chambered muffler sounds amazing on a 5.0L as well, the x-pipes scream at RPM. So fun to redine it through the freeway tunnel I saw on my daily commute every day. 😁
Used to hate these cars back in the late 90s/2000s since they were so common and clapped out. As (almost) always though with the passage of time a clean example is an immediate head turner. Definitely aged well.
I just bought my wife an 88 Fox Mustang Convertible. It's dead stock and all original. I'm fixing to put a lot of money into restoring it but with several upgrades to bring it up to modern standards.
All ‘93 Mustangs have cast hyper-eutectic pistons vs 87-92 forged. 89-93 has a less aggressive cam than ‘87-‘88. ‘91-‘93 fenders have larger wheel arches for 16 inch wheels, Airbag cars have smaller headrests, darker black plastics, knee bolsters, and different climate controls. Rust areas are base of shock towers, rear hatch underside, door hinge pillars, and rear license plate to spare well. Leaking main seal and oil pans are common expensive repairs.
I have an 86 which is a 4 eye. Did a 2004 cobra 5 lug conversion, pan hard bar, heads, intake, mass air conversion, long tubes and exhaust. Bought it in 1998. Still have it. Would like to sell it. Haven't driven it since 2008.
Just no interest anymore. I put 10 years into it. Have had a Lexus, Mercedes, and porche and enjoy them more. I have no idea on price. I am not sure what they're even going for now. I'm in the twin cities in mn. I think there's 130k on it.
Bought my first of many foxes in the late 90s. 88GT still in my garage. It’s not perfect, but it’s mine still. All my buddies had some too. I’m the only one that kept theirs. Even did a burnout leaving the church w my wife in it almost 12 years ago.
If you're buying one of these, LOOK AT THE DRIVER"S SIDE FRAME RAIL WHERE IT MEETS THE STRUT TOWER for rust. It can be the death of the car and super common. Also, subframe connectors work - if you don't install them you will see cracks in the A piller. Aftermarket parts - just stick to Maximum Motorsports.
I'm so thankful I picked up my '92 LX 5.0 Summer Edition convertible when I did. The prices have really gone up! Great car. Fun to drive. Simple to work on. (Mine is 43K miles and stock.)
@@tedstyle3798 there was an assembly plant in Mexico City that made Foxbody Mustangs. But the vast majority of the production took place in Dearborn Michigan including the SN-95 Fox- 4 mustangs. From 1979 to 1981 San Jose California also produced mustang till that plant was shut down in 1982. Mexico City only made foxbody mustangs from 1979 to 1984. They only accounted for a tiny percentage of all foxbodies built. If you had done some more in-depth research instead of a quicky Google search you might of figured it out by yourself. The Dearborn assembly plant produced over six million mustangs.
Another way to tell how hard a hatch fox body has been driven is to look at the kink of the hatch. If the body and hatch are worn there, the owner has torqued the body alot in use, usually from hard cornering. I would know. Lol.
Three wives has come and gone , but my 86 Mustang GT still greets me home , 61 years old and still enjoy a summer ride , loud as hell , I will be buried in her .
There nothing like driving one . The good I like most about it is you feel like your in a mustang nothing like the newer ones where you feel like your driving a luxury car. Love my 93 reef blue lx
I bought my 88 Notch in 95 and put 3.55 gears in her with an Off Road H Pipe, BBK Shorty Headers, Super Chip, and some chrome Pony Rims. She definitely won more races than she lost. I miss her
I got my 87 LX hatch with the 5.0 package and AC for right at $10k brand new. The notch was a little bit cheaper. It was the best bang for the buck at the time!
@@angelgjr1999 that might have been possible with a base 4 cyl no option coupe as the MSRP started at about $4,500 in 79. Or a year or two old used one. Adding options pumped that up to $6-8k or more, and of course inflation. By 87 the base 4 cyl MSRP was $8,690 per my window sticker. The 5.0 package was $1,885 and AC was $788.
Had a chance to buy a '93 Cobra in '93 but didn't...Huge mistake I made and I was at Dearborn Assembly making them...but I'm not all the way out because in '91 I did purchase a Notchback 5.0 brand new and still have that baby in my garage...it's different now sporting a Windsor 427 engine with a Procharger F1A-94...Talk about POWER...My car shakes windows now and I love that Procharger screaming and that blow off valve sounds killer
Bypassed heater cores are notoriously common at the lower end of the market for these cars. Props to the owner of this car for not throwing away the distributor cover. A fuller picture of these cars would include the parts interchangeability with the other fox chassis cars and later SN95's, especially for 5 lug upgrades and what can go wrong for trackwidth. I ran a rear end out of a thunderbird turbo coupe for a rear disc brake upgrade back in the day.
I had 3 different Foxbody’s. A 89 hatch, 93 hatch, and a 93 notch. Modified them all. The last one I should of kept. Very clean well cared for car. It was tastefully modified and turn a lot of heads. Always a conversation starter about every time I stopped at a gas station. Kept the looks somewhat stock. Just some black bullitt wheels and a 2 1/2 cowl hood painted to match factory paint with the center of the hood painted gloss black. H.C.I and a zex nitrous kit. Ran mid to low 12s depending on weather.
I wanted that car so so bad! But they didn’t sell them in Canada 😩, So I bought a 93 notch back calypso green 5 spoke pony rims No AC, No power windows, just the lumbar seats and 302 5.0 paired with a 5 spd transmission car cost $17,000 cdn when I drove it off the lot was one of the happiest days of my life!
I have an '89 GT with 23k original miles on it. The only non stock bits are the shifter and the cat-back. The only thing broken is the ashtray door (but I'm pretty sure those were broken before they ever left the factory floor). Bought it years ago off the original owner who kept it in a climate controlled garage and almost never drove it. It had the original tires and original spark plugs. I paid all of 10k for it, in I think 2013. It's almost too nice for me to want to mod.
@@JoshuaTootell I do. It's a two-tone GT with turbine wheels. It's never going to be a '93 Cobra or a coupe. It's never going to be one of the duper desirable models. So I do drive it. I even have a Billy Squier tape in the tape deck 😃 Although TBH, I do kick myself for turning down a 93 Cobra with like 10k on the clock, pristine condition, for $18k back when I bought mine.
BTW, love the video, but just a minute mistake in the video. At 4:30 , you made a mistake and said that the 302 V8 was killed at the end of the Fox Body's life. But actually, the 5.0 still stuck around for another 2 SN95 model years for years 1994 and 1995, and then were changed over to the 4.6 modular V8 for 1996 until 2016...
It was until they became so scarce. Now the prices for a rare straight example is in line with the cost of ownership for a newer Mustang. And when I say straight, I mean just that. Not twisted from former drag use. Fox bodies are now expensive, at least here in Canada.
Good luck finding a cobra those are all kept safe and expensive can still get the regular fox bodies but they beat to hell most of the time and have lots of owners with unknown maintenance
I got mine “Stock” nearly two years ago as in it still had the coil cover, and even still had the smog pump hooked up with all the goofy Evap stuff still in place. Only thing done to it at all was a CAI and some after marker lower control arms. However it was still somehow in shitty shape beneath the shiny new paint
@@sav22rem22 I can believe it. Northern cars especially are bad sometimes, but will look good a few feet away. I used to live in Ohio, now Tn and it's amazing how much nicer old cars here with no salt, etc. Even daily drivers really aren't bad comp to up north. Where you live?
@@joshuagibson2520 Yep my car was an Ohio car for like 15-20 years before being taken to WV then to Kentucky then I bought it from Kentucky and I live in North Carolina. Frame rail/shock tower is bubbling up and I have bad rust at the base of the firewall where it meets the floor pan on both sides
@@sav22rem22 bummer. When I lived up there, I used to buy old GM Fbodys and part them out. I actually made a lot of good money doing that. This was in the 90s and early 2000s. I'm getting older now though. Hope you get your stang worked out.
Had 2 1979 early cars. Indy Pace car, Ghia. I miss the Ghia. Pace car fell apart in 6 months. Trans, axles, clutches(3), rear glass(defogger grids), TRX rims (corrosion), excessive wheel hop(no cure yet till svo). My SVO was the best one. NO DRAMA just fun.
90 fox 1 owner...got it for 6k with 53k miles. Drive it for 2 summers, sold it for 7k. Thought I was a Boss lol...sold 2013. That car, that flawless now is 20k people are asking for them. Totally unmodified...it was flawless except for some small pdr dings on drivers side I never did. (Garage walking side, she musta hit it with stuff) Don't even get me started on the 65 289 4spd fastback in high-school I had....$5,300 for a daily then, now a rusty shell only is that much...and that's for an inline 6 auto rusty shell.
I'm not sure what he's saying about the 4 eyes . But I have no problem finding parts for them.also the 82 fox had a marine roller cam from the factory.
Mmmm, the Fox Body Mustangs! I love these but cannot ever have one. (I took my then-teenage son to buy a 5.0GT. When I got in, my son looked, shook his head, and said I looked stupid trying to fit in under the roof.)
Glad I nabbed my '92 convertible LX with cervini hood, rear spoiler, and style bar and cobra wheels, back in 2016 the drive train was ripped out of it.. didnt care, still bought it... I get asked to sell parts and or whole car.. but no, will build it and drive it once I get time.. these will only go up in price..
Not a lot of info in this video. Aside form the torque boxes, check the front shock towers, as they tend to rust. He never even mentioned the Mercury Capri. Those had factory flared fenders and rear quarter panels.
there's so much to know about these cars because there's so many variations and so much you can do with them, I think he did a really good job of covering the basics. There are a lot of great forums and other resources out there for learning all the details.... 👍
