What vehicle is this? Mystery photo

ford mustang ... based on google search

https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0521-46158 ... r-special/

something like this ?

Foxbody Mustang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Must ... eneration)

Foxbody LX Convertible.

too easy

Oh its not a game. I just saw it in a random pic and couldn't quite pin point what it was! lol

OhOh! I had a Fox Body Mustang growing up for summer, then sold it in the fall. Can't remember if it was hatch or coupe now though.....

Certainly wasn't convertible though.

The dual exhaust suggest it's a sleeper Fox Body LX with the 5.0. My favourite version.

Rolling in my 5.0

Fox body Mustangs were the bargain of the decade! Had a notchback 1988 LX 5.0 $13800, tax in. (Manual, No A/C and radio delete were options, lol). 225hp/300ftlbs torque. Absolute rocket at the time!

Sheem wrote: ↑ Fox body Mustangs were the bargain of the decade! Had a notchback 1988 LX 5.0 $13800, tax in. (Manual, No A/C and radio delete were options, lol). 225hp/300ftlbs torque. Absolute rocket at the time!

They were great cars - and their live rear axles were always ready to remind me to manage my enthusiasm.

CaptSmethwick wrote: ↑ They were great cars - and their live rear axles were always ready to remind me to manage my enthusiasm.

A buddy and I got bit a few times when taking his brothers LX 5.0 out, lol! Fun car, felt so fast back in the day.

mxthor3 wrote: ↑ A buddy and I got bit a few times when taking his brothers LX 5.0 out, lol! Fun car, felt so fast back in the day.

I just remember the clutch being soooooo stiff and hard to push in. Other than that I had a good summer with the one I had and flipped it for a profit in the fall as I really didn't want to keep it long term. Bought it cheap off a buddy to help him out as he needed money fast so I low balled him.

I never did own a Foxbody, but a few friends did (some nice ones too!) I had a few Lincoln Mark VII's with 5.0's (one ran low 13's) in them though when I was younger, lots of interchange with the Mustangs...

Sheem wrote: ↑ Fox body Mustangs were the bargain of the decade! Had a notchback 1988 LX 5.0 $13800, tax in. (Manual, No A/C and radio delete were options, lol). 225hp/300ftlbs torque. Absolute rocket at the time!

LX was faf for the time, faster than the GT, you could tell the guys that knew their cars vs the posers back then

My first Mustang was the last of the 5.0s in the mid-90s. had both a GTI VR6 and the convertible GT 5.0. They were both equally exhilarating and terrorizing! (rear axle on the GT and torque steer + too much power in the GTI)

mxthor3 wrote: ↑ A buddy and I got bit a few times when taking his brothers LX 5.0 out, lol! Fun car, felt so fast back in the day.

Compared to the average car on the street these days they're still pretty quick. Quarter mile in the mid 14s...

IndusVally wrote: ↑ Compared to the average car on the street these days they're still pretty quick. Quarter mile in the mid 14s...

It felt like a 500hp car to a couple of 16 year olds I think they made something like 200HP if I remember correctly?

You're kidding right OP? You must be young dude to not recognise a Foxbody?!?

IndusVally wrote: ↑ Compared to the average car on the street these days they're still pretty quick. Quarter mile in the mid 14s...

Not even, more like 15s. 5.0s were known as 5.slows in the 90s lol. They could get fast when pretty well modded (and there's lots of examples today too) but they were not fast from the factory.

Z28/Formula always used to crap all over the Mustang through the late 80s/90...and into as far of the 00s that the F-bodies went.

The Foxbody Cobra some years was still slower than a Z28/Formula but at least a lot closer to a 14s quarter mile:
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/co ... ison-test/

Actually the Foxbody Cobra R was only just about as fast as a 4th gen F-body with LT1, and that car had a completely gutted interior, no AC, no power anything, etc. LOL. Pretty sure the Firehawk was still eating that Mustang's lunch lol.

After Foxbody all the SN95 4.6Ls underperformed the contemporary V8 F-bodies as well, though IIRC the 6cyl might have been faster than the 6cyl F-body.
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/co ... ison-test/

Mustang didn't really get fast [from the factory] until the Terminator Cobras, which was on into the New Edge generation. Those also got an independent rear end. Still the standard V8s would still lose out to LS-equipped F-bodies and they didn't get an IRS either. Eventually GM cancelled the F-bodies and then Ford actually got serious and you had stuff like the GT500, which is funny because during the "competitive" age of the 80-00s, they were content to continually be behind GM--go figure.

And that there is my summary of Mustang v. F-body for the bulk of those years Stock the Foxbodies for that era were all slower than competitive contemporaries.

Also 14s is not what I'd call a "pretty quick" car in this day and age; various mid-size soccer-mom CUVs are that fast and Foxbody Mustang was a good ways off that mark anyhow.

My Foxbody was faster than my buddies 1988 Iroc and 1990 Formula, all day long. The second week of owning the car I took it to Cayuga drag strip and did 14.60 in the 1/4, stock tires and all.
I agree with your assesment of this day and age, but at the time it was a bargain basement muscle car. I ended up having the car stolen, and went with a 1990 IROC-Z (with A/C!)

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