). You're telling me that in spite of the fact that they have already bolted it to this block, have enough driveshaft lengths to put it in just about anything, all the tooling already made, and all the ground already broken, that it will add more to the price than I can pay for the whole swap into a stang platform that was never intended to have one? If I can get a T56 for under two grand, Ford gets them for half that or they could buy them from me. Or maybe they could get a deal on them from GM, since they were able to put them in their Camaro's and Firebirds without charging Corvette prices for them. Nevermind the fact that in addition to being competitively prices to the Mustang, they were faster and better handling than the Mustang every year. All that after paying for that expensive tranny! The general must know something Ford doesn't...
Got the car with a 1 year warrantee on it, and when something goes wrong you don't want to drive a few hours to the dealership, nevermind someplace you took a plane to get to. There are five Ford dealerships in this area, close enough that they can each be visited several times in the same day. Since we've been back a few times, and went back several times before buying it, it really wouldn't have been very practical to go on a road trip for this. He really didn't know what he wanted until we'd looked at a bunch of them, he hasn't had a stang in over twenty years. Even when he decided what, and which one, he went back and forth over it for two weeks and then one day just surprised us all and took it home. We would have had to leave New England completely to find one any cheaper. That's a lot more money and time than you want to invest in something you may not want. Nevermind the PIA it is to buy cars out of state when you live in CT, they make it hell over here. That would only be a good way to shop for a car if you were rich, in which cases you wouldn't need to. I think at 55+ years old my father has done more "living and learning" in his life than he deserves already, and whether or not he got a fantastic deal on this GT is actually heading off topic.nito88stang said:
Actually, even $6k is a small price to pay for a factory installed T56, forged crank, Manley rods, bigger brakes, better dampners, better springs and a modified Eaton M-112 blower- to name a few of the perfomance additions. Regardless, maybe they were $27-28K on your end of the country, but in '99 they were over $29k as far away from me as Vermont, in '00 I don't think one got whithin three states of us, and by '01 people here would have lined up around the block for a new Cobra for $28-29K. When the '05 GT hits the sales rooms here, I fully expect them to be stickered whithin $3k of the '03 Cobra's, and they are hardly in the same playing field. As much money as Ford has spent reskinning and re-engineering the GT, it's still nothing a Terminater owner needs to be worried about at the stoplight- as apposed to the new WRX (which is also a few thousand less, making it a direct price competitor for the GT, which the WRX will hand it's ass back to on a plate) which will hang right with an '03 Cobra light to light, or beat him, if it has a better driver- and then walk away as soon as they get to the corners; another example of a 300HP car with a 6spd for the going rate. Now those are "apples and oranges and I know it" but the point of it is plane and simple. The Mustang against a Firebird or Camaro is a much more straitforward comparison- say red delicous to granny smith. Upon making it though, I really don't see why GM didn't sell more of them, since they had the power and technology I'm looking for in a Mustang ten years ago. Must just be how hard they were to get in and out of, ya think?SVTdriver said:
tylers65 said:
stangbear427 said:
HotRod magazine, last month. It was the cover story.SVTdriver said:
SVTdriver said:
