Progress Thread Finally got my first Fox Body - 1988 GT

Rdub6 said:

Oh no!! Pushed to the outside..... say it ain’t so!

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The new vehicle cost $35k...the Fox cost $5k.

*Thanos voice: “it’s a simple calculation”

The Fox will get plenty of garage time no doubt...especially once it warms up. The black car didn’t have a garage the first two years I owned it and I hate leaving it outside.

I might look into some type of carport or canopy option for the side yard next to the drive way but until we move into a bigger house one day and I can get my three or four car garage, I’m going to have to play musical cars. Blah.

Mustang5L5 said:

Insulation makes a huge difference in the garage. When I bought my house, the garage was uninsulated. In the middle of winter it was in the 20-30s in the garage.

I added insulation, and when I wired it I added a 220v circuit or two. I bought a 3600 watt electric heater and now can get it up to 70 degrees when it’s 10-20 outside. It’s made working in the garage much more tolerable.

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How about the garage door? Did you change anything with the door?

Mustang5L5 said:

Your $5k fox is slowly creeping up towards $10k the more to clean it up and address issues. All these little things you are fixing do make a difference.

A few years from now, it will be worth more than whatever vehicle kicked it out of the garage. Not picking on the choice of vehicle at all, it’s just a sad reality at how most cars depreciate so rapidly.

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Fair point...though I have read that [spoiler alert] Subarus hold their value pretty well.

My plan is to at least keep the cover on the Fox when it’s out of the garage. I’ll probably get a cover for the DudeStang for when the Fox is taking the garage space for extended wrenching.

So I did some googling on this and all I could find was stuff about how to make ramps out of wood....but anybody have any thoughts on getting some planks of wood to put underneath ramps? I want to have the Fox up higher than it sits on the ramps and I figure if I get a couple pieces of wood to put underneath them, they could serve the dual purpose of making it easier to drive on and off the ramp while also making the car sit a little bit higher on the ramps. If this is a stupid idea, feel free to tell me so.

Anyways, it’s snowing here again. I made a non-update update video. The Fox being in the driveway upset some other people, lol. Not to worry though, I will be moving it back into the garage soon so I can try and make some progress on things that don’t require laying on the floor.

View: https://youtu.be/lXjmyNBUDo8


Anyone else bored out of their minds lately? I feel like I didn’t understand just how helpful and therapeutic it was being able to work on the Fox project...until I couldn’t. My work has been a lot busier but it’s a different kind of busy. It’s not the same as completing something on the car after hours or days. Blah.