While we're on that subject... can someone tell me how the Camaro got that reputation as the mullet-mobile?
Can I expect the Mustang to take back that reputation when all their currently best selling cars end up in third, fourth, or even fifth owner's hands?
In reply to racerfink :
asshats on some mustang forum in 1999?
also because they are found littered in every trailer park across the country
Mullets and F-Bodies go together like peanut butter and jelly. I think it's because of the availability of T-Tops from the mid-70's all the way to the demise of the 4th Gen cars. Gotta let that thing flow in the wind! And there's zero wrong with that! Mullets are unironically back, BTW.
In my eyes, I always saw the Mustang (Fox chassis and up) as the neighborhood tough guy/bully's hardo-mobile, and the F-Body as the official car of your friend's fun older brother Darryl that has a sweet mullet, listens to Dokken and Iron Maiden, and will totally buy beer/smokes for you if you ask. And the higher the trim level, the more amped up the stereotype was. I mean this in the best way possible and mean no offense to anyone. It's also based on 5 years of parts slinging in the early 2000's and watching my customer base walk through the door every day. These days, anyone can own anything, but back then, that's what I saw with my own eyes.
I must have lived in inversion world. All the Mustang guys at my school wore mesh muscle shirts, jobber hats (with their hair well past the tails of the hat), and chains on their wallets. There was one exception... but his dad had oil discovered on some property, and so his son had a KR500, big block 69 Vette, and brand new Seville to choose from.
Unfortunately, I live about 15-minutes away from Canonsburg, PA where the final Yenko Chevrolet dealership is located. It looks like crap and I'm sure the only reason it hasn't been long since razed is its history. As an added bonus, it's right next door to a radioactive waste dump to give it that extra Western Pennsylvania charm! Google Street view of the depressing outside:
In reply to racerfink :
Every single Mustang guy that shopped at the parts store I worked at was essentially Michael Chiklis's character Vic Mackey from The Shield. If that makes any sense. Felt like every parts request was an interrogation. Not a single mullet; mostly hotheads with zero hair by choice. The hair would just slow them down.
We DID have a really cool guy I worked with that had a pair of 1985 Mercury Capri RS's that had long hair, so there's that. He offered me one of them once for cheap and I had just bought my Trans Am, so I was out of the running. Kinda wish I scrounged up enough to buy it, because they are mega cool and there's probably 3 left on the planet these days.
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