I'm just talking about parts availability and, perhaps more importantly, cost, which will directly affect the viability of the ordinary Joe keeping his Mustang on the road. For example, Summit sells a complete LED tail light assembly for a 1966 for less than $100, incandescent are even cheaper. What's the current price on an S550 tail light assembly (at Summit anyway, $600+, but not in stock) and how much will it be in 25 years?
All of that is true, however the Fox platform is now over 40 years old, and it was the longest production run of any Mustang generation spanning 15 years, plus it was the platform in use during the revival of the corporate horsepower wars after a dark 10 year period of dismal factory performance options. Point being, by the time the 1st Foxes were 20 years old and a lot car guys stared feeling nostalgic about them, there were still a lot of them on the road and a huge potential market for the parts suppliers to cater to, and yet it still took nearly 20 more years to get to the point of being able to just look online for what you need and click click, have it sent to you. There's a natural aging curve for the parts supply for any car, after 10 years, the factory replacement parts start to get scarce, by 20 years it takes some serious searching to find some of the obscure parts, but if the platform was popular enough, by 25-30 years there's enough interest in maintaining enough of the cars that the aftermarket will step in to fill the need. If you have a car you really want to hold onto, like an S550, you just have to be resourceful enough to get through the transition period of it just being an old car with limited parts availability to a cool classic with good restoration support
I had a 2014 GT Track Pack - 600WHP and the 3.73 was too much gear, changed to 3.31 and it was much better to drive, launch etc. around town I was between 4th & 5th gear at 40-45 which was annoying.
True. It doesn't hurt that the Fox was basically the '57 Chevy of the '80s and '90s.
...whew!!!!!!People are still buying foxbodies and driving them, calm down.
If you took what i said as me putting you in your place then im guessing that emoji...whew!!!!!!
Boy, did you put me in my place...............................
...No.
