Mustang II comeback?
Being a Mustang guy for the most part, the 71-78 years have the worst visual appearance.
08-12-2018, 09:59 PM
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Safety Car
There are some cars regardless of age/heritage that just suck........ This is one of those examples!!!!
08-13-2018, 01:46 PM
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From using Amazon's Look Inside feature, the first book seems like a normal muscle car book, and has a Corvette chapter. Interesting cover choice because a Buick GSX is on the back!
08-14-2018, 02:39 PM
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They’re all rusted out so not sure what to expect lol
08-14-2018, 02:42 PM
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Mustang II's appeal to the same crowd that likes Pintos, Gremins, and Pacers. The Nerdy-Cool aspect is appreciated by these folks. The '70's were over 40 years ago, and there is a nostalgia factor for some. I had to work on these cars when I was in the industry, and they were crap then, and are still.
08-22-2018, 09:07 AM
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St. Jude Donor '05
x2. Still kinda liked them, 70s couldnt be had iwth performance just decals
Does it come with a CB washed up blond and 8 ball....er 8 track?
Does it come with a CB washed up blond and 8 ball....er 8 track?
10-19-2018, 12:51 AM
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Burning Brakes
Back in 1985 when I needed a car to drive while I was building a new engine for my 77 Trans Am, my wife's father loaned me a 75 Mustang II with a four cylinder and auto trans. That sucker saved my bacon while I got the new engine done. It was a fastback, it's only redeeming quality. Boy talk about not able to get out of it's own way. Everyone on the highway passed me including semi's in the far right lane pulling a load up a grade. He eventually gave me the car. I used it for the final time when I was building engine # three years later for my street strip T/A. But by this time the wife and I had another car so this time I sold it for $75 after the build. It was a real piece of crap for sure. The original engine had blown and the wife's father installed another four banger when I started driving it. I have a couple polaroid pics he took of it somewhere not sure why. Always being a GM guy I figured I had really hit rock bottom driving it. But there is one other great thing about driving it. I could park that sucker in any parking space and not worry one bit about anyone hitting it. In fact when I pulled up next to someone or they came out and saw it next to them they probably worried.
10-21-2018, 05:57 AM
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When I was in high school a friend bought a new 78 King Cobra. We drove it straight to my house pulled the 50hp 302 and put a 351W in it with upgraded clutch and headers. Later added a 3.91 gear and took the hood snake off of it.
It made a fun little car and surprised many cars who assumed it was just another mid to late 70’s wheezer
It made a fun little car and surprised many cars who assumed it was just another mid to late 70’s wheezer
10-21-2018, 06:30 AM
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Mustang II's appeal to the same crowd that likes Pintos, Gremins, and Pacers. The Nerdy-Cool aspect is appreciated by these folks. The '70's were over 40 years ago, and there is a nostalgia factor for some. I had to work on these cars when I was in the industry, and they were crap then, and are still.
I had a 71 Gremlin and the V8 models were known as "camaro killers". Very under rated performance cars,
If you look at the styling of the Gremlin and then at the majority of today's SUV's you can see those designers were light years ahead of their time.
10-26-2018, 06:47 PM
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Had an economics teacher with an early Gremlin with the 304 V8. This was about 1974. Car was a couple years old. We used to pick it up and put it in the planter box near his parking spot. I always liked the car, and it was no slouch, either, when most late model cars were. His had the Levi jeans interior, too!