Friday Night Photos Mustang Sally Edition
Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 06/20/2025 - 5:00pm
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When Ford first introduced the Mustang in 1964 it was love at first sight for me. After 61 years I'm still in love with this car. Over the years I've owned three, a 1967 coup, a 1998 GT convertible, and a 2008 GT. I still have the 98 GT convertible.
Tell us about your favorite car.
The 2008 GT I previously owned
The 1998 GT convertible I still own
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I too like Mustangs However I don't recall seeing them with
the additional headlights in the middle of the grill. But my memory ain't was it used to be.
Hi, humphrey
Don't feel bad. Not only is my memory not what it used to be, my memory never was.
I did a quick search. It looks like the lights in the center of the grill was an option in 1967.
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@humphrey the inboard driving
the inboard driving lights on the 67 Shelby met with objections. Maybe in California?
They moved them back out, but the unique look was unforgettable and constantly present in the numerous mutations pop culture instigated.
The driving lights on a 67 Mustang with the GT option (65-68) shown on the other picture are a nice sight.
It shouldnt be hard for me to pick a favorite, but it may be impossible.
My 65 coupe got me through high school and college, more or less. I disassembled it and now it waits, most of the parts needed piled around somewhere.
My wife's 67 S code convertible is a heavy hitter, as Mustangs go. Deserving of the work it still requires.
I am most tickled by my right hand drive 62 Capri. It may be the rarest car I will ever own or see in this country.
Shocked that a 56 T-bird could be harder to get into. Far more shocked that some aftermarket electric brake booster master cylinder replacement could set me back 800 bucks... been a hard day on that front.
Seriously fond of early Falcons, I have a 63 260 black convertible that needs a lot of 260 2 speed challenges addressed. Not the easiest starting point.
Fairlanes. Torinos (two CJ projects, a Cobra and one of the rarest CJ models in an A/C Torino proper hardtop. One of 11, much rarer than any fancy desirable versions).
Galaxies, 53 Deluxe panel truck(s)_
Pintos.
That Capri sorta rules, but the T-bird is iconic, and with a NEVER available four speed, fun to row.
But for the close ratio sluggishness. Some great day, gears will be swapped. No small chore.
Pic uploads not panning out. best for all, Im sure!
Hi, kelly
Sounds like you have quite a collection of Fords. I wouldn't mind having a 56 T-bird.
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For some reason
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whenever I think of mustang, I harken back to a buddy that drove a '64 or '65 model
pretty standard transportation before the advent of the pinto (much classier too)
similar as this ..
thanks for the photo thread
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Hi, Q
Anything was classier than the Pinto. I know, I drove one. It definitely wasn't a babe magnet.
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Yeah, me too.
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Now that I reflect on it, my buddy's mustang had a straight 6 with a single
jet carb (remember working on it). Same set-up as the econoline I drove at the
time. Used to drive around at night and pick-up straggling hippies with fireflies
smeared on their lip.
similar to this .. (except it had more windows)
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Ford still makes the Econoline
I had a buddy that had a 65 mustang with a 289 cobra jet motor and 4 speed transmission. Fun car to drive. A lot of torque in that motor. If you got on the throttle to hard it would tear up the u-joints in the drive shaft.
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I've never been much into cars. Hey listen, there
are quite a few educated car fans among us females. That said, the two best cars I ever owned were a 1973 Ford Pinto and a 1996 Acura Integra Hatchback. You kept the oil/oil filter changed and the radiator flushed yearly, and those 2 cars just kept on truckin'. Granted, the Pinto's body was an eggshell. However, its overall structure was built solid like a tank. The Acura was just a great car. I only owned cars with stick shifts cos of the gas mileage and maintenance costs. These two more than delivered!
Thanks for the much needed fun diary, Sp. Rec'd!!
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Hi, obf
If memory serves (a very big if) Pintos had a problem of catching on fire from a ruptured gas tank if they were hit in the rear end.
The best thing you can do to for the longevity of your vehicles engine is regularly changing the oil and filter.
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@Socialprogressive Yeah, that's what I
Yeah, that's what I meant about the flaw with the eggshell (Pinto) bodies. I had a yahoo rear end me in the Pinto. Very little damage, and that bozo (it was bright daylight) was at fault. This was waaay back before cellphone distraction, etc. The Acura saved my life. A drunk t-boned me one night. Slammed into me at a 4-way traffic light at close to 50mph. Thank god, I had excellent insurance as that drunk yahoo had none. Typical FL crap, believe me. However, both my medical and auto expenses were fully covered. Sadly, the Acura was totalled. It's the only time I grieved over the loss of a car.
Hope you and yours are well.
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I love the
Eleanor gray ‘67 Shelby GT500: there are a few of those replicas around. If I remember correctly, the original Eleanor was from the movie “Gone in 60 Seconds”, which I haven’t seen in decades, and represented the Holy Grail car the thief desperately wanted to steal…
My wife and I built a full-on race car from my street ‘86 GT, back when I still had money for such things. I’ll have to find a picture of it. By the time we were done, it was a semi-tube-frame beast, wearing only a little of the original bodywork. Just touched 160mph in the speed trap at Road America with it, in its final stage of development. Good times… Sold it when we lost the ranch, of course, and there’s a guy still campaigning it as a vintage racer back in CA.
I miss it, but not the work it took to keep it safe and quick- about 15 hours of wrench time per hour of track time. And the expense of a set of tires and brake pads every weekend. Toys like that are a rich man’s game, and I most certainly never were that, and even more certainly ain’t no more…
Here she is, in happier times. This is about three development stages from the end, but is close to what we took to Road America. In this photo she’s sitting on her rain tires (never trailer a race car on slicks!):
At speed, on the traditional road course at Las Vegas International Speedway.
Up on jackstands for maintenance, where she lived a lot of the time. Once again, on the rains- those skinny little tires look so funny... I ran her with 14" slicks on the rear and 12" on the front in her final stage of development, so things got a tad bit more crowded in there on the race tires.
Lastly, the office. This was prep after the offseason for '03-04- look at all that dust... (;-) At this point, she still kind-of had the original molded dash (because of course I did), and steel doors that could actually be opened (;-). I didn't go all sheet metal until the '05 season, and I did Nascar double door bars in the rollcage then. No pictures of that still exist, unfortunately- I was too busy wrenching to take pictures.
This last photo shows why maintenance is so important. This is the Kevlar/elastomer safety bladder from the fuel cell, after sitting for the '03-04 offseason with California gas in it, compared to its new replacement for '04. The MTBE (methyl-tert-butyl-ether) antismog additive in CA gas has attacked it, made it brittle, and it actually started *leaking*. I let Fuel Safe know about it, and they sent mail out to all their customers saying “If you have run your car in CA in the last few seasons, check your bladder!”… That is also the reason that there were so many engine fires in CA with pre-1980-vintage road cars around 2000, BTW, because the MTBE makes the original rubber fuel lines just as brittle, and they would crack from the vibrations, dump fuel onto the running engine, and the rest is history. Just a word to the wary old-car-lover on the West Coast.
As Carroll Smith said, “There is no part of a race car that can safely be installed and then forgotten about”: everything has a finite, and short, life span.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.