They were either modified or beat to hell when I was in high school during the late 2000s, The good condition ones were either stock, well cared for or modified and ran about 4-10k depending on variables(Like Mods). But if they were beat like most, they were about 850-1500. If you got one that was not falling apart and still had a bit of life in it, that ran you about 2-4. But those were still hard to find just due to the modding scene that was already there. So good ones were not something us teenagers could get really. The 93's-99's were what we had at my school. As well as 4th Gen Camaros and Trans Ams of the same era. Only one kid had a 2002 WS6 Trans am.
Got my 88 saleen in 96 for 8500$ with 45k on the odo shes got 275k on her now . Daily drive it along with my 1994 gt 5.0. Just swap back and forth and wont buy a new car they run to good. Slow turds but still cant even get gas without some dude walking up asking if its a real saleen im like no its fake
They are rare and expensive. But they're not a BIG THING. You don't see them. You don't hear about them. You don't talk about them. They're not a big thing
@@RobertWilliams-ox4hz At this point in the car world, I too see the "NEXT BIG THING" meaning its expensive and out of reach of most of the working class who'd enjoy said car.
Well in highschool my mom had an 84 4 cylinder with a manual in white with blue interior. Maybe a fox body but glad it went away. Saleen mustangs have always been cool but always a little too expensive when I needed a car.
@@jpp9846 it caught on fire and insurance totalled it. Someone bought it and reached out to me, it's alive and well. I put 10k miles on it and drove it across the country with my dad; lucky to have that memory. Someday I'd love to buy it back! I paid $7,500 for it with 30k miles in 2009. Still hurts thinking about it hah
@@steved479 helluva story! I had an "88 back in 1995. I loved it, sold it and thought about it for years. In 2016, I found it again. The lady who bought it from me in 1995, parked it in 2002 in a farm field. I wanted to cry when I seen what happened to it. I tried buying it back but she wouldn't sell it back. It needed a lot. So, I bought my current one and have a new love... And, I'm not ever selling it if I don't need to this time.
Well they'd run out of content pretty quickly wouldn't they and they're stuck with the series title and slogan. That said, it's a nicely packaged short look at some cars you don't always see, what's the problem? My only complaint was that this one wasn't in-depth enough.
I would say that most of the cars featured on this spot, while no longer sleeper bargains, are still in the "attainable" range and with non-trivial future growth potential. Even that comparison of the F355 to the 360 doesn't make me raise an eyebrow, because the former is still growing in value strongly with relative bargains to be had if you're willing to import one from Europe and the latter is still hella slept on at its current price point.
A friend of mine in Vegas has one his daily drive from new 90ish 400k miles later Mr Saleen and Co have rebuilt maintained and retuned it over the years. A great car
Just met the man that now owns this foxbody. He lives in my hometown. Pulled up on him in the food city parking lot to check out his grand national. Which was one of five grand nationals that he currently owns lol and he told me specifically to go check out this video because he now owns this car. Super nice dude.
1989 SSC..a dream car that I hope to experience, one day! Even "run of the mill" fox Saleens, such as this one were quite amazing machines, I'm sure! I miss these old days (growing up in Long Beach, CA...their original hq.
It's just some guy threw some aftermarket parts on a mustang it's nothing special you can buy the body kit and decals new then wheels and suspension parts
The problem with that is safety and the fact that 40% of the people who buy them in north america are overweight and want a bigger and more intimidating car to show off with. Its part of the charm of the Challenger and the reason why no one is buying Camaros right now.
As an owner of a destroyed and soon to be “restored” 97 Saleen, im happy that in later years they are still going up in value. I wish i could afford a Fox
@@potatochobit Uh yeah they are' Ford built them using the Fox Body platform and Steve Saleen added his parts to them. Kinda like Shelby did back in the 60's.
Yes you could say that SN95/new edge interiors had some cheap plastic parts but what car didn’t in the 90s. E36 bmw’s you couldn’t keep that interior from falling apart no matter how good you took care of it
@@dom_not_torretotedesco5707 I still find the SN95 generation to still be a cool car, Despite the cheap interiors. I want one pretty bad, but it would need a full restoration since most I see look like they are on deaths door. Even the S197 Mustangs have been treated better than most SN95s/New Edge Mustangs. they were already beat up bad in many cases in my high school years during the late 2000s. Good condition ones were not cheap, but there were already many that clearly needed put down.
@@joshuakhaos4451 absolutely agree and the clean ones that are out thier now are still going for good money.I’m my area it’s not uncommon to see a well taken care of sn/new edge GT go for 8-10k
Never was a fan of the Fox Body 'Stang's look, but they sure could move! I remember when the California Highway Patrol used them for several years. There was no way to outrun them!
I have idolized the Saleen Mustang since I was a kid. Not so much the man but the car. The Saleen has been the ultimate go fast tuner mustang for as long as I've been a car guy. It is the ultimate Fox chassis car.
My high-school ex girlfriend lived with her aunt and uncle who were young had a 1988 convertible Saleen. Same color as the beautiful car in this video, best ever Saleen!
Back around 2005 Saleen had a showroom / shop at Irvine Spectrum outdoor mall for about a year. Guys could shop for a racer while the women shopped for purses lol. 🏁
Wasn't a huge fan of American cars but now knowing a bit of history about Steve Saleen, I got a whole new found respect for his cars and "responsiveness" methodology.
In the day, the Fox was the modern hot rod; a good, basic starting point for modifying a car for performance, and the way you wanted it. It was inexpensive and had a really great, reliable and powerful engine that took modifications well, from electronics (EEC-IV was open source from Ford) to hard parts. It could be made to handle well too, with a host of brake and suspension suppliers who started a cottage industry around that car. 30 years on and nothing has changed; the cars are still available and inexpensive, and the SBF is still alive and even thriving, with an even greater availability, and better flowing, cylinder heads than we had back then.
At 2:26 A very Rare 1993 Saleen SA/10 . Saleen made just 10 examples of that car... 2 of them went to John Bleakley Ford in Atlanta.. 1 was the owners personal car and the Other was still sitting on the showroom floor for sale in February of 1994... If memory serves I remember it had a sticker price of $56,000 and some change... I went there in February because Bleakley Ford was the last dealership in the south that still had a new 1993 Cobra that was unsold... I waited to see what the 1994 was going to look like in person & I was very disappointed so I tracked down the cobra and someone stole the ashtray out of it so my salesmen Nick Rainwater goes over to the SA/10 pockets the ashtray and puts it in my cobra... If anybody out there purchased an SA/10 from John Bleakley Ford without an ashtray I have your ashtray... Lol ( In comparison my cobra had every option except for the sunroof and the chrome plated rims and it was $21,970. The 1993 Cobra R was $25,000 and that SA/10 was $56,000 )
Everything stated here is exactly as I remember it in the late 80s early 90s growing up in SoCal. I haven't seen a Racecraft suspension logo since then.
In 1984 Ford offered the Mustang SVO (Ford Special Vehicle Operations). A 2.3L Turbocharged intercooled with 5 lug wheels and all wheel disc brakes. Also no mention of the black Saleen fox next to it? It’s 1 of 8 known to still exist (9 were made, 1 was stolen and never recovered) and the most expensive foxbody out there.
Hagerty keep up the great work with Magnus and Jason Cammisa!!!!! This latest episode with Magnus on the Saleen foxbody finally got my subscription but Magnus needs to dive deeper into the Saleen mustang's throughout the years, even though it's not his style lol
Actually, The rear disc brakes and 5-lug hubs were available on the SVO mustang before Saleen started using them. Great video though. Best part is between 6:00-6:06, it's the only section of video where you can hear the car without the generic background rock music. One of the things that makes the foxbody mustang so great is the exhaust note. One of the best sounding cars ever,
Yes they started using SVO 5 lug 4 wheel disc brake setup in 87 and up Saleens. As someone who owned two 85 GT's and a 88 LX 5.0 and now a 89 Saleen. Those brakes are a huge improvement.
Awesome video, I own 89’-152 All white exterior paint, white top with smoke gray ford leather interior, at the moment is sitting at 38k miles on it, what special about this one, when I bought it (years ago and that an interesting story by itself) I noticed there was no decals, no stripes, no badge number up front, no decals on the sides or rear. I called Saleen to see what what color decals it came with, after a long talk with them. They told me good and bad news. They asked for pictures of the car (in and out) and vin number. The vin number didn’t match their documents recorded. One number was wrong. I have all of the paperwork from the day it was sold including the temporary tags to drive it. Long story short, Saleen wrote done the Vin number wrong and they admitted it and send me a letter and new tags. This is like a typo (you have dollar with a misprint, it’s worth more) after this was done, they asked me what was my question, I asked about the decals, that there isn’t any on the car. They told me that this particular car that I own was a factory decal delete car. Confused I asked what’s does that mean, they said if I were to get all the Foxbody Saleen Mustang convertibles 87-93 (which weren’t many to begin with) the car I have will be one of one. Being a one of one, with their mistake on documentation, a letter with tags to prove this, and being a convertible, I think I own something pretty more than rare, and love driving it on sunny days
One of the eye sore that always itches me is the door frame next to flush mounted clean rear quarter glass. The 2nd one is the 3 piece head light design. Fox body Mustang is a beautiful car and really almost a 911 in terms of looks. But yes 911 even a wide bodied looks clean & lean.
The 1986 911 with whale tail was my dream car for the longest time....until a test drive when the price met my ability...I was so disappointed. The Porsche feels very solid and well built but just could not get over the way the pedals operate, like a VW Beetle. ....and how cramped the engine bay is.Sadly that was deal breaker for me.
BACK IN THE 90S MY 87 MUSTANG GT WAS A PRETTY FAST CAR BUT IF YOU HAD A SALEEN FOX YOU WERE MILES AHEAD OF EVERYTHING ON THE ROAD BUT I DO HAVE THE NEXT BEST THING MY VIBRANT RED 93 COBRA THAT'S SLOWLY BECOMING MORE AND MORE POPULAR AND VALUABLE EVERY DAY AND I HAVE MY 87 MUSTANG GT AND I REALLY WISH I BOUGHT A SALEEN MANY YEARS AGO WHEN THEY WERE A 20 THOUSAND DOLLAR CAR AND A SALEEN FOX JUST SOLD FOR 198 GRAND LOL CRAZY.
So something here. Ford in house tuners at the time. SVO, now SVT, were the first to do the five lug and disk brakes and the handling package on the fox. Minus the v8 the svo mustang was where alot of the parts saleen used to do all those conversions.
A friend has a twin to the car in this video. I have a 93 LX coupe w/ a 93 only SALEEN Centrex whale tail and it works evert bit as well as Steve said it does.
Actually the SVO was the first to do it on the fox body they were five lug and disc brakes all the way around. And that is the exact setup that Saleen used right down to the master cylinder.
....sounds like they're adding in the engine soundtrack from the movie "Bullitt" at points throughout the video. When he leaves Saleen with the car, that's the actual car with Flowmasters.
Would love to see Magnus expound on the whole crazy-wild-west-prospector theme by purchasing his Fox Body Mustang with gold nuggets and customizing it with a hitch for a mule trailer.
They made a fox body with a 351 and a Paxton supercharger. As much as I love the 93 Cobra and Cobra R. They don't pull the candle to the supercharged s351
@@2344tommaselli it's still on the fox platform I know it's not a "fox body" but the s95s and New edge are all foxes. I remember being so frustrated that Ford never made the 5.8 an option on the mustang. The Camaros of the day and the 5.0 tpi or the 5.7 tpi. If Ford had put the 5.8 in the fox platform with like GT40 heads and some headers that would have been more than a match for an IROC Camaro. did not know that it was a vortex supercharger though. Still a centrifugal supercharger setup. I could probably Google it just as easy but did that have the boargwarner t5 or t45?
I will say from experience that newer Saleen Mustangs are put together rather poorly. I worked at an authorized Saleen/Roush Ford dealership and can say that the body kits were slapped together lazily and had bad bondo filling in small areas with shoddy paint in some areas. They weren’t the worst job. They were amateur for a company that charges the money they do for their cars. Luckily we didn’t see many problems with the mechanical sides of their builds.
Lately I've been thinking of getting one while they are cheap, they arnt the fastest mustangs but clean ones are relatively adorable and soon the clean ones will also be rare
@@Shakerhood69 that generation doesn’t have the same nostalgic value or following the fox body or the new edge has. Sure they might go up somewhat but not to the same level as other Mustangs.
I can confidently say that 88-0423 is still doing well. It's in my shop in Tennessee. It's been gone through bumper to bumper and is ready for another 30 years of enjoyment.
I feel like when Magnus Walker gets new clothes, they are his "work clothes' to work on cars in. Once they are good and worn in, then they become part of his wardrobe to wear on TV, in public, etc.
Exciting to be able to find 87 saleen parts direct from California not eBay 'most guys with saleens are 60 retired able to drop 50k to make them new again
Have all those made for ditch cars you want. My grandma said her old Buick will still roll them up and smoke them like a philly blunt on a saturday night here in the 2020's, and with a 455 triple carburetor Big Block, i agree with her, i seen her do it on the drag strip. roflmao
Damn they stuck him in an 89. I can guarantee you one thing. You ride in an 89 and before Saleen you will feel it. Specific rate springs ride nothing like progressive rate springs. They handle amazing but ride like a log wagon. I traded out the springs in my 89 and got progressive rate. Looks the same rides much better on the street
