78 sport package ghia rarity

78sportsghia · Sep 20, 2019

So I’ve just turned 16 and bought my first car. It’s a black 78 Ghia v6 with the sport package. And I was wondering, how rare do you guys think the cars with the sport package are ?

Adieu · Sep 20, 2019

There were 34,730 Ghias built in 1978. How many were the sport package, well, no idea.

Regardless, the car is relatively rare now.

Enzio · Sep 20, 2019

pictures please.

78sportsghia · Sep 20, 2019

Thats what it looked like when i got it

I then found out that my rear bumper is completely shot, but besides the bumper the undercarriage has pretty much no rust

Enzio · Sep 20, 2019

Sweet welcome to the site. I like the orange interior.

78sportsghia · Sep 20, 2019

Ya, its a little bit discolored from the original chamois but it still looks good with the black

2Blue2 · Sep 20, 2019

Wow that how my bumpers looked.
I still was able to use the core to hang fiberglass smoothies on it and have some protection.
Digging the trailer hitch!

Noobz347 · Sep 21, 2019

I don't know that the 'Sport Package' was anything other than a dealer installed thing. I don't see any VIN# designation for it.

Adieu · Sep 21, 2019

Noobz347 said:
I don't know that the 'Sport Package' was anything other than a dealer installed thing. I don't see any VIN# designation for it.

It was a thing, it was the Ghia with a ralleye steering wheel and black grille instead of silver. I have a Ghia Sport grille in ElSuperPinto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(second_generation) (see 1977)

Mustang IIs were weird when it came to VIN coding. Even King Cobras didn't have anything in the VIN, you have to look at the buck tag on the core support to tell what trim level you're looking at for sure.

There were all sorts of weird packages too, the MPG package, the Ralleye package, the Stallion cars (which shared their appearance pack with Pintos and Mavericks), Ghia Sport, and a few others I'm forgetting. I really wish MustangII.net hadn't shut down for good and switched to being a Facebook group after being hacked, all this info was archived there. MustangII.org has some of it, but it's not nearly as complete.

LILCBRA · Sep 21, 2019

I don't know if anyone still has the production numbers for sub-models like that except for probably a Marti report. If you truly want to know how rare your specific car is I don't think there's a better place to get your info from. To have that info, you'd need to order the deluxe report at $46.

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On a side note, I really like your car! It's almost identical to my first car when I was 16!

jozsefsz · Sep 21, 2019

My first car was a '76II, MPG, with Ghia and MPG badges. The 'MPG' came in with the 2.3L-4 and the v8 rear axle configuration. You needed a running start to make most steep hills, but it would hum along at 90mph without breaking a sweat. They truly did make all kinds of oddballs.

78sportsghia · Sep 22, 2019

2Blue2 said:
Wow that how my bumpers looked.
I still was able to use the core to hang fiberglass smoothies on it and have some protection.
Digging the trailer hitch!

Could you send some pictures ? I was thinking of doing something similar to mine

2Blue2 · Sep 23, 2019

Mine are the trim delete stock depth bumpers
I put it together with two carriage bolts on each smoothie fiberglass bumper which I probably didn't need
The bolts were to keep foam from pushing the bumper off the frame not to hold it on
They are filled with closed cell expandable automotive grade foam and thats what holds em on.
Been good for over ten yrs at this point

They have fiberglass bumpers now of different depths at CAR

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