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Photography Courtesy Omar Rodriguez/Facebook Marketplace
Back in the day, the cool kids knew the drill: The Mustang GT came saddled with a bit too much weight, a bit too much attention-grabbing bits.
What you really wanted was the LX: 5.0-liter V8, five-speed manual and, ideally, the coupe body. It was the lighter, sleeper option.
[Is the Fox-Body Mustang the ultimate blank canvas?]
A clean one exists almost as a unicorn today, but they’re out there–like this 1989 Mustang LX for sale on Facebook Marketplace. Not many details are given, although does that look like factory Dark Shadow Blue to you?
Asking price is $20,000–just about Hagerty’s price for one in excellent condition–with this one in North Carolina.
It sounds like it has a bit of a rumble to it. Might have a three-quarter race cam in it as well.
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Are those the original seats? I feel like even the sleeper notchback cars got sportier seats than those.
Still, what a survivor. I can almost feel the rear suspension binding from here.
225/300. After the craptacular 70s that seemed like a revelation.
Had a 89 GT that I got down to 2900 with driver....
Abomination.
Started at a 14 something and got down to a 13.24@100 with one engine upgrade which was the 1.7 crane cams cobra rockers.
Overall, I find it a steaming pos.
My first fast car. A 1990 5 speed coupe. I did all the cool stuff to it. Stroker engine with all the good stuff, deep gears, Tremec, Kenny Brown stuff underneath, Simmons 3 piece wheels.
For the time, it was about as bad as you'd find on the street.
People can talk ugly about them nowadays, but back in the early 90s, I walked tall driving this thing. No one wanted anything to do with it at a red light.
I had to dig out the photo album with paper pictures.
Man, I drive by Kenny Brown's old shop in Omaha every single day. Then I look at my 85 GT sitting in the garage and keep thinking I need to do something with it. Then something else catches my eye. I swear I'll get to it soon.
And no I don't need that. The only time I was arrested, I was stuffed in the back of a notchback 5.0 for a 40 mile drive.
It's called a trunk. Who says "notchback?"
rustomatic said:It's called a trunk. Who says "notchback?"
People who lived it. You either had a vert, hatchback, or notchback. Heathen.
Ranger50 said:rustomatic said:It's called a trunk. Who says "notchback?"
People who lived it. You either had a vert, hatchback, or notchback. Heathen.
QFT
And a related question: 10-hole wheels or five-spokes?
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