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Acehole
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Don't get me wrong l love my foxes, I still kept two of them out of 8 and cut my teeth/know them in and out and always will love them over anything. All things considered, I will never understand how people go bonkers over a tin can rwd escort with an interior that made the fisher price kozy coupe look refined. But Im all for it!
tw557
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I've said this Many times. It was my first car. I bought a crashed 88 and put the motor, drive train,skirting, interior and suspension on my 82. I put a 600 double pump on and that really ran great back then. I'm sure i would not be as impressed if I could drive it now but back then it was awesome even at 13.5 in the 1/4. This pic is exactly what I had except I put the 10 hole wheels on
tw557
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Funny but I bet its a little bit true too. Last year I sold off a few things and saved up trade up to a GT from my Ecoboost. After test driving a few, I wasn't as excited about a GT as much as I thought I was gonna be. But then I was sitting with this "play money". I thought well maybe I could spend a couple grand and get back into a decent condition Fox and have some fun with it. I was quite surprised at how much a decent Fox was going for. I even found a pretty good condition 82 GT and it was for $9500! Nope don't like the fox that much. Spent 500 more and got a pretty heavily modded 05 instead. My boss just sold his 82 Iroc all original with about 80000 miles for 11000. Didn't even take him long to get that for it on craigslist.
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nastang87xx
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I'm under the same impression. 90's Foxes are going for 7 - 10K in good condition and have been for a few years now.
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ctandc72
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LOL I bet he did that's a rare care considering the IROC didn't start production until 1985. Sorry couldn't resist.
But values have come up just like everything else. My neighbor who is getting ready to retire always wanted a '86 Mustang GT. He was fixated on a '86. He randomly found one on CL for I think $4500? Car is clean, no rust, some minimal mods. I convinced him to go with the old school flowmasters and he loves the sound. I still can't believe the prices people are getting for what I still consider to be "just used cars". My buddy just got a nice chunk for his '92 Z28. It was his FIL's car and was a bone stock 5 speed TPI 305 T-top car with pretty low miles and always garaged. He was fighting the urge to LS swap it when some random guy asked if he was selling it.
I still can't fathom how I can't find a decent early Chevy Vega. Apparently they all rusted away, were junked or tubbed out for the 1/4 mile. I've been wanting to try a driver LSx powered Vega for a long time....at least it would be different. A go car with 400HP would be fun.
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Remember guys that the 1987/1988/1989 cars were some of the fastest cars on the road. Only a current year Vette could beat them Even faster than a Ferrari 308.
You can’t say that about today’s Mustang. Those days we ruled!!!!!
And that may be why prices are going up...
You can’t say that about today’s Mustang. Those days we ruled!!!!!
And that may be why prices are going up...
ctandc72
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Not to knock the Mustang - but what?Remember guys that the 1987/1988/1989 cars were some of the fastest cars on the road. Only a current year Vette could beat them Even faster than a Ferrari 308.
You can’t say that about today’s Mustang. Those days we ruled!!!!!
And that may be why prices are going up...
I remember the '87 GT and LX 5.0 when they came out. I had a '67 Chevelle that lived at the track and "Mexico" as they apparently call it now. In fact a good friend's Dad brought a brand new '88 GT 5 speed hardtop. I gave his Dad crap because I was able to shave 2 tenths off his best time in the car. Stock tires 14.3.
While that WAS fast for the time considering a stock production car - it wasn't "fastest on the road" by any stretch of the imagination. Now add some gears, a sticky tire and you were well into the 13's.
Stock for stock, the 350 IROC TPI cars were right with the 5 speed 5.0 cars - usually a driver's race.
Now granted '87 started a wake up of the horrible performance domestic cars drivers were dealing with since the car makers had made some decent technology-fueled leaps when it came to horrible emission controls.
If I recall correctly the fastest 1/4 time for an American Production car in '87 belonged to the Buick GNX (Tricked out Grand National). The T-Type regal with the Turbo 3.8 was good for 13's stock.
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You never met them at a light, but Mustangs were everywhere. You did come across Vettes and you could give them a race but they usually won. The thing with the Camaro is that their injectors would plug up and gave reduced performance. The Ford 5.0s had a better self-cleaning tip design and kept its power.
That is why just looking at car stats from a magazine never tells the whole story. I was there and and raced two 5.0s from that era. Actual experience counts. We had the fastest cars and we ruled! Other performance cars found a reason to get off the street when you showed up. You don’t see that kind of respect - or fear - these days...
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Picked up this little troublemaker early 2018, as a walk down memory lane. What a nightmare. I shoulda waited for a 2.3 or 5.0 to come available, as the paperweight 3.3 in this car was just that...a paperweight. I lost my ass getting rid of this thing, after dumping thousands into it getting it running right, replacing the A/C, wheels, tires, brakes....etc. Never again will I walk down the old American Iron road.
ctandc72
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Did you not read? I was there when they came out. I had multiple friends who had them. Fear? Yeah - driving them in the rain would inspire fear. They were fast for the time they came out and what they were - but they weren't unbeatable or as fast as you remember.
"Other performance cars found a reason to get off the street when you showed up."
I literally LOL'd at that. I guess we had different upbringings. Anything close to stock and off the lot was never feared. I had a 10 second '67 Chevelle that I built pay check by pay check in high school - and that was when a 10 second car you could drive on the street was actually kinda rare. Hell now you can buy a new Vette, and listen to tunes while running 10's with the dealer tags still on it.
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