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Well got the car home

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martyd

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I went am got my ssp yesterday. it was a 8 hour round trip and on the 4 hour trip back that the LX got drove it did great. I do have a good bit of body work to do, the passenger fender is dammaged but the car came with a replacement, other than that my main problems are with the clearcoat pealing. It really makes the car look alot worse off than it actually is. There is one spot of rust on it on the drivers right between the drivers door and rear wheel well but it is below where the trim is so I think it will be fairly easy to re-sheet metal that small part.

The car averaged allmost 29mpg on the way up here and drives absolutly great, the rigged exhaust on the car is choking it but at $1400 I think I go a great deal. The interior is in decent shape but I do plan on getting some front seats for it. All around I am very happy with the buy. It is going to require some work but I would not have gotten it if that is not what I wanted to do in the first place.

I guees it's now official, I am apart of the Mustang and Fox Body family now, I will try to get pics up later today.
 

QUICK91LX

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Good luck, sounds like an awesome project. Looking forward to pics!
 

ryan218

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29mpg? thats damn good mpg.i got 23-26 in my aod vert. (before gears) prob lay like 19 now :sad:
 

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I love the way it drives, it is very very tight for a car it's age. Dont use any oil, and has a big fun factor. I do have to say despite the power difference of my old LT1 the car is alot more fun to drive. The feel, the ride, the power all feel right at home
 

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martyd said:
I love the way it drives, it is very very tight for a car it's age. Dont use any oil, and has a big fun factor. I do have to say despite the power difference of my old LT1 the car is alot more fun to drive. The feel, the ride, the power all feel right at home
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power to weight for ya. get that thing to 300hp then there a handful.
 

hemi_fan

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Congrats on your fox, now get some pictures up so we can see it!
 

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I am kinda asshamed to throw pics up now because of it's condition. I will if you guys promis not to make to much fun
 

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dude just throw em up
 

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This was my 1st mustang. It was ugly as hell but it was fast as hell. I don't have it anymore sadly. I sold it because i needed the cash. I wish i could have it back now. I sold it for 2k. I had more money in it just in parts!!! dam it!!!

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ryan218

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martyd said:
I am kinda asshamed to throw pics up now because of it's condition. I will if you guys promis not to make to much fun
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dudeeeeee this was my first 5.0 mustang...it was totaled i miss it how it started out looking when it was pushed off roll back

 

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hollywoodstang

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Dude that's ugly. LMAO i am kidding. I have seen worse.














But yeah yours was worse. hands down. You make my car look pretty.
 

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post pics dude
 

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Ok I will this weekend. But keep in mind that I am with in the next week or two buying all the parts to give her a little respect back.
 

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post em asap so we can all say "look how far its come" look at pics of my engine bay when i started my project... it was embarrassing
 

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I dont have any pics and it's dark

I will have before pics up this weekend, I'm not getting new bumpers, front seats, and fender untill next week then it'll be a couple weeks after that before I'll be able to get the whole car primered and rolling on nice and shinny stock 10 hole rims.
 
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