Posted on 06/10/2025 1:04:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
A friend of mine has a 66 or 67 he fixed up a lot but doesn’t drive it much any more.
Light red, inline 6 is about all I remember, I haven’t seen it a long time.
Talks about selling it.
I had a 67 Cougar, base model for a little while in the early 00’s. It wound up being sold as much as I hated to but to solve a problem and keep the peace, it was bought by a collector.
At times I miss it but I guess it wasn’t meant to be.
I have a nice 1:18 die cast model in a display case.
“Have a 2017 GT350 now and wouldn’t give it up. Much better product and a pisser to drive.”
Fine car but needs a track to shine. I test drove one but went with a supercharged Roush.
I had a neighbor that owned a BOSS 429. he ket the elephant on an engine stand in his garage, and installed a 429 Cleveland in it.
Agreed. HPDEs at Lime Rock, Watkins Glen and Summit Point. Got way too expensive, but lots of fun while it lasted. Skip Barber took my money and all I got was a t-shirt and some great memories.
>> Aint wild about the white wheels.need to be chrome.other than that the color is cool.
The engineers agree, but they haven’t found a way to reliably keep the chrome veneer from flaking off of the plastic wheels over the entire four-year life of the car. :-)
“1968 Ford Fairlane 500 GT.
The most bad-azz bare bones, 4 on the floor, brilliantly balanced, monster of a sleeper car to ever roll off the Ford line.”
If you exclude the 67.
I drove a rental car Mustang GT after they went to the independent rear suspension and it was pretty good.
Nice...um...car.
That and the first generation Mach 1 Mustangs are my favorites.
The ‘67 was nice too (what would Bullit have done without it?) - but the Mustangs after that were either too wimpy or too weighty and nowhere near as much fun.
Yep. My BIL had a yellow one. 289 with Hearst racing shifter and 263 gears. A 10 second Vehicle at the Homestead drags. Good times! 😊
The non fox body does look more like a Camaro. I never cared much for the “Fox” body, it did not look like a mustang. Although equipped with a potent small block, they can run a pretty decent qtr mile, since they didn’t weigh much.
I’ve had 2 Corvettes..A 1978 Silver Anniversary and a 1979...
The 1970 Hemi Cuda...A Mustang Convertible...BUT...
The most fun car to drive on country roads was a 2001 Miata...Not a lot of speed, but quick as lightning....
I bet they sell well in the Gay communities!...
First thing I look at are the wheels. Terrible.
However, the rest is just fine!
+1
I’ve had a lot of cars also. My first was a ‘57 Chevy and that was 10 years old in ‘67. It had a straight 6 with a “3 on the tree”. I blew that motor pretty quickly, and put a built 327 in it, a 4 speed on the floor, and some bigger ear end gears. Ran pretty good, low 12’s in the qtr. Then a ‘68 Olds w31 and another ‘71 442 with a 455. After getting the bugs out of the 455 I ran 11’s in the qtr. I liked the w31 better though a very underrated motor, I should have kept that one. I also had a ‘65 caddy convertable that was a real cruiser, loved that one too.
I never raced any of my cars...I just cruised around in them trying to “look cool”...LOL
A 289 with those gears would not make a 10 second qtr mile. Not even the high performance 289. Maybe supercharged and/or with nitrous. You would have to have something like a 4:10 or bigger rear end gear ratio.
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