Old pics

[LILCBRA]

I'm on a "vacation" of sorts due to the Corona and visiting friends and family in Iowa. I'm staying with my sister and she breaks out an old photo album and says if there's anything in it that I want to go through it and help myself. In going through it I found a pic of an old II that I swapped the 2.3 4 speed for a 302 4 speed and added a set of wheels and tires I had. It was my sister's car that she got because someone owed her money, so technically it wasn't one of mine, but I did the swap with parts I had laying around. She ended up selling it and making more than what was owed. She tells me every once in a while that she should've kept it. But in the pic is my brother in law and 2 of my nieces, both of whom now have babies of their own. It's really too bad I can't find more pics of this one, it was pretty nice!

 

[2Blue2]

Alright LILCBRA I'm piggybacking this thread because of title...

Carol 'Bunny' Burkett
and her Mustang II ~ Hubba hubba!

 

[Potomus Pete]

Mustang ll should be worth quite a bit with their cool body style, and rarity. Back in the their heyday they rusted out in a few years in salty areas. One of my favorite cars for sure. Thirty years in Florida I have only seen two in person. One at a car show with rust bubbles showing around the glass, and another perfect t- top that I saw in traffic. The owner looked like a collector with a happy look on his face. Most like on Craigslist are behind a shed covered in mold. I love the dashboard, and that split back seat. Love the Charlies Angels pictures, and Enzio's car.

 

[Enzio]

Thank you very much!

 

[IICrew]

Here is where I got my fist fix. I never fit in with any groups which led to me hating main stream anything. Led Zeppelin was too popular for me. I liked MSG, Waysted. The music played on top 40 radio was ugly noise to me. The edgy teen I was. Everyone hated these things so I fell in love with them. The more I got for having a "not real mustang" The more I made her prove otherwise. All the GM's running around back then would kick my ass on a highway. Yet they could not touch me light to light or better yet a back road. Once I passed them you could watch their headlights dive as they braked for a corner. A long straight away they would gain on me but enough corners back to back and I was gone.

The first race I was shocked to lose was when I found out how quick those Omni GLH's were.

1978 302/C4. The car had no options except the rallye package and a 302. Put close to 100,000 miles on her. Installed a ford crate engine back in 87 which is the block I am running today in Christine. It loved snow. All you had to do was give it more gas and do the reverse to drive to reverse and she would get out of almost any snow pile. Salt on the other hand led to her demise.

 

[Enzio]

Looks like a Riveria in the driveway too! Wish I could find some old pictures of mine. Very nice.

 

[IICrew]

It's a Grand Prix a friend of mine used to own. He ran into some cash at 18 years old and went wild with it. Trusted the wrong body shop and regrets it to this day. Spent a couple years at said body shop getting lowered, mini tubbed, paint and custom split front bumper. I don't remember what size they were but the first car I was around with huge wheels and very little sidewall to the tire. Car was a sleeper before the body shop butchered it. Had a built 400 in it and the best stereo I had heard other than at a car show. Tan in color. Spoke hubcaps. Whitewall tires. Looked like grandma's car. Ran like a scolded dog. Embarrassed a few hot rods before the transformation. She was too low and geared wrong to actually drive it once they finished it. Don't remember today but it was next step up from 4.11. 4.30 something iirc. Couldn't take it on highway trips as she was well over 3,000 rpm doing 65. Rode like . The suspension was so hard it felt like none at all. The fiberglass nose they made cracked within a few days and he repaired it several times before he parked it and just never got back to it.

 

[LILCBRA]

Here is where I got my fist fix. I never fit in with any groups which led to me hating main stream anything. Led Zeppelin was too popular for me. I liked MSG, Waysted. The music played on top 40 radio was ugly noise to me. The edgy teen I was. Everyone hated these things so I fell in love with them. The more I got for having a "not real mustang" The more I made her prove otherwise. All the GM's running around back then would kick my ass on a highway. Yet they could not touch me light to light or better yet a back road. Once I passed them you could watch their headlights dive as they braked for a corner. A long straight away they would gain on me but enough corners back to back and I was gone.

The first race I was shocked to lose was when I found out how quick those Omni GLH's were.

1978 302/C4. The car had no options except the rallye package and a 302. Put close to 100,000 miles on her. Installed a ford crate engine back in 87 which is the block I am running today in Christine. It loved snow. All you had to do was give it more gas and do the reverse to drive to reverse and she would get out of almost any snow pile. Salt on the other hand led to her demise.

This is almost exactly what my Cobra looked like when I bought it in the early 90s, then I installed 13" wheels identical to those. It was originally black, but the previous owner had some y bodywork done to it and painted it white to try to hide it. The biggest reason I bought it was because it was a 302/4 speed car.

 

[IICrew]

My cancer ridden Cobra is still wearing those wheels. The rears still hold air. One front tire holds air but half the tread has separated from the carcass.

I have 2 complete sets of 13" slots. One set of polished and one set of brushed. I prefer the brushed look on that car as the trim was blacked out from the factory. The 15's are a much better option overall but if 13" rubber was still available I would absolutely run them. Save on 5 lug conversion and tires were cheaper. When you could get them. lol

And yes, those were ford motorsport mudflaps she is wearing. I had to replace at least one every year. The snow would build up on them and they would get brittle and just break off a section. I lived in Cincinnati but spent a couple winters in Chicago with it and she was great in the snow. I had the option of it or a Ford Escort...GT? I think. It was the sporty late 80's escort. I preferred the II unless it was miserably hot as the escort had ac. I had driven the II so long it was just an extnesion of me and even when sliding I felt more in control then some new fangled front wheel drive econobox.