what was your first experience with a 5.0 Mustang?

[Jaym14]

I was born in 81, so needless to say that in 1990 or so when an older friend of the family took me for a ride in his 89 black GT I had very little knowledge of cars. Nor had I even been in a fast car before that (my family all drove economy 4 bangers and my dad had an econoline work van that didn't exactly give one a thrilling ride). So anyway, we went for a ride and I was hooked. I love the speed & sound the car made, and the attention we got driving around in it. I remember asking about the sound and being told that the car has flowmasters in it... which I misunderstood for "floormasters". So for the next few years or so I ran around commenting how random mustangs I saw "sounded like they have floormasters" and how I wanted one with them. LOL anyway fast forward to my H.S. years and a few friends had mustang (one had a 4 cyl LX hatch done up to look like a 5.0 which made for some interesting stop light encounters with "real" 5.0's and a few others had some LX's and GT 5.0's and one friend even had a brand new 94 GT white with beige interior. So every Friday night we went out to meets and went looking for races. I even managed to get myself a 5.0 in my senior year, it was an 89 LX hatch blue on blue. Unfortunately, I was spotted by one of my mother's friends (who to this day remains anonymous) doing about 90 mph in a 40 zone near my old house. So two weeks into my first 5.0 I was told sell the car or move out... I sold the car.. After that I desired one up untill a few years ago when I purchased my current 88 LX seen in my sig. Funny thing is that I replaced the 5.0 with a Lincoln LSC.. it was just a Lincoln (old mans car) to my mom but a mustang in disguise to me!

Anyway, just felt like sharing.. hope those who actually read that entire run on paragraph enjoyed it!

 

[95Vert383AOD]

Mmmm lincoln marks Owned 3 of those then my first 95 5.0 i bought 2 years ago.

I had a habit of building and totalling those pretty quick.

Heres the 383 thats in my current mustang when it was in my lincoln before i totaled it.

I convinced a friend to let me do a 5.4 32v in his mark 8.

If i ever go mark 7 again im tossing a 460 based motor in it.....i miss that car....Anyone who wants to donate a mark 7 feel free!!!

 

[Shaolin Crane]

when my dad married my stop mom she came with a h/c/i 85 vert, i was about 7 years old and he would take me out street racing in it, sadly i dont know where any pics are of that car

 

[5.0Torx]

My first experience was my brothers '89 aod convertible, which was purchased not long after my dad bought his '00 GT brand new. It was very fun to compare the 5.0 vs the 4.6. It was such a muscle car compared to the GT. He ended up getting tired of it and bought a '94 Formula. GM doesnt know how to make a car, only a drivetrain, so he sold that for the '97 Mark VIII which he just recently wrecked. Now he just bought the '00 GT off of my dad and Im the one with the 5.0 mustang lol. I got my '93 senior year of high school and it took me 5 years of ownership to receive my first ticket - Excessive Acceleration, right after doing my GT40P/exploder top end swap. oops...Still have the car, still love it to death. Its down due to bad fuel pump/fuel pump relay for the moment. Once it warms up she'll be terrorizing the streets with her LM1s as always =)

 

[Jaym14]

I loved my mark VII.. I had a C4 with a ratchet shifter in it , H/C/I 5.0, and flowmaster exhaust with custom tailpipes. That car was a blast and comfortable to boot! Only thing I hated was the damm air ride suspension.. I had soooo many problems with it. Had I kept the car I would have done the coil conversion. I ended up selling it cause I blew the motor and my mechanic offered to buy the car from me so I took the money and bought a 4 banger daily driver

 

[Jaym14]

actually on a funny note, (continuing my last post), my mechanic rebuilt the motor and resold the car to a local kid. That kid then wrapped the car around a pole (he was ok) and the car was totaled. Then a local speed shop guy took the motor out of the wreck, did some more work to it (unsure of what exactly but I think 347) and put it in a Mustang that he later drove on an episode of pinks!

 

[89stang1]

in 1989 i bought a 1986 Mustang GT black W/T-Tops mint cond. only thing i did was gut out the cats, sold her 2 years later my wife just had a baby.............i think because i sold that car ive been bitter ever since now i hold onto to much stuff LOL......my 89 i will never give up

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

I grew up a Chevy guy....loved Camaros and still do to an extent. My best friend got a '87 5.0 LX 5 speed. He used to flip cars so we had this thing where i would drive everything he got just for kicks. One drive around the block was all it took and i was hooked. About 6 months later i bought my first Mustang and i've had one ever since. This was in about '02.

 

[fiveohfox]

my first stang

my old man had a 88 gt when i was 13 i loved it, he said it was mine when i was 16 he sold it for 1,500 more then he bought it 3 weeks after he bought it so when i turned 16 i bought one my self and now i am the one with a 5.0. haha. well now that my mom is re married my step dad has a 69 mach with 400 hp 351 and a 427 double pumper on a stand in the barn neither ever get used so i am working on a deal with him now for both!!!

 

[cjrpony]

I have loved Mustangs ever since a brand new 87 GT blew past me at light as I sat in my Maverick. I was blown away by the sound and the power of that thing. I didn't get one until 96 when I traded an 87 Olds Custom Cruiser wagon for an 89 LX 5.0 with automatic sitting on Dodge used car lot. It was completely bone stock. It was white with slight rust starting so I got Earl Scheib (LOL) to fix the rust and paint it black pearl. I wasn't happy with the paint job, so the next year I completely stripped the paint off of it in my garage and painted it myself. I put an SVO style hood on it and it looked pretty good. But the paint was lacquer based and didn't hold up too good on the bumper and front of the hood. A large icicle fell off our roof and damaged the hood, so the next year I painted it again with the stock hood, this time with urethane paint. I never did any mods on this car other than a shift kit for the tranny and a Summit cat-back. But I still thought this car was the sh**. Eventually, I bought an 89 Convertible with 5-speed (and a whole string of others!) and parted ways with my first one, but I still look back fondly on it.

 

[Chrome_Rust]

In 1997 I was 16 years old. I was close with my uncle who had a 86 GT. It had tons of stuff done to it, heads, cam, intake, Mass Air, clutch, gears, lots of other things. When I got my license he gave me the car. It was the burgundy, with burgundy interior with grey piping, t-top car. Also had only 32k miles. I drove that thing all summer, went through more rear tires then I can imagine. Winter came back around, and I will still driving that car. It was late december when we got a lot of snow one day. I was on the way to see a highschool girlfriend a few towns over. I was going around a corner when I lost control. I was going maybe 35 at that time. Everything else that I am going to say is from what the police and investigators told me after the accident. The back of the went right, it went off the road, i tried to throttle it back in line, over corrected, hit a dry patch and the car hit a pole on the passenger side. It rocked over to the passenger side before it hit, taking out the t-top and the door first. the car then "taco'd" around the pole hard enough to brake the tailshaft off the trans. I was in the car over 2 hours before anyone found me. My head had hit the pole, knocking me out and leaving me in a coma for over 2 months. They say that the only reason I am still here is the car stayed running the entire time. I woke from my coma and had to learn to walk again... That Sucked... I have no pictures from the crash, i have nothing left from the car except the front drivers seat. I didn't buy another mustang until 2007. It was a 95GT Vert. I have had 4 others since.

 

[MAC'n89Blckstng]

I used to be OBSESSED with Trans Ams/Firebirds in high school. Then my brother got a Black 88 GT automatic hatch. It was bone stock and I loved it. I just loved the way it looked. Three years after that I got my bone stock Black 89 GT hatch. I loved that car, if it wasn't for that car I wouldn't know half the stuff I know now. I also remember in second grade, we had to make a book of our lives and one question was, what do you want to do when you grow up, My answer was to be a truck driver (didn't happen) and own a customized 92 Mustang, that turned out pretty well having owned three fox bodies so far.

 

[timeless2]

Here's mine.

Tribute to the man who showed me the Ford Mustang | StangNet

 

[powershift46]

When I was in high school I had a 91 4 banger convertible, somehow I managed to total it and got a 98 4.6 gt. about 6 years later I traded it in for a truck. Couple weeks ago I got my hands on a 91 5.0 LX convertible and now the fun begins all over again.

 

[Mustang5L5]

When i was 15, a 17 year olf friend had an 86 GT 5-spd with 3.73's. Took me for a ride and i was instantly hooked and it was all downhill from there

 

[wythors]

I got my first car in August of 1978: a 69 Mustang coupe with a 302 and an automatic. I kept that car until after I bought my 93 'vert in 1999. I met my now wife in 2001 and the stable has grown to include my 93 Saleen and her 85 Saleen. So, I have been a Mustang owner for 31 years.

 

[S&B]

My best friend got a 93 cobra when he was 16 back in 1997 the rest my friends is history. When i got my first commision check from work I flew to Nebraska and overpaid for a mint notch. 25k later (after I baught it) it now sits in my garage 364 days a year. Now i realize that a stock 5.0 is much sexier than a moded one. It comes with age, I dont really care to much about 1k HP im more into making tons of power w/o anyone noticing you have it.

 

[FoxGT87]

my first experience was when i bought a 1983 5.0 convertable for 840 dollars, i knew less about mechanichs then i do now... and i still dont have much of a clue ( i am getting a lot better though ) it was the first year of the 4 barrel holley, it had been dogged its entire life but i thought i was going to be able to "fix it up and hot rod it" cause my "friends" said they would teach me. well they had more ambition to watch cartoons and eat munchies and then we had a falling out, they were older then I. i was able to yank the engine out of the car for a rebuild, it was a flat tappet engine. we never got around to rebuilding that engine and eventually it was stolen off of a engine stand by scrappers, they left my stand. the body was scrapped because i couldnt afford 60 dollars a month to keep something stored that i knew i would never again touch. the only thing i have left are the original valve covers that say "Powered By Ford" and the 4 speed manual transmission that was an option for that year, you saved $140 compared to the stock T5 lol.

i was able to run that grinding transmission and knocking engine through its paces a couple times before we took the engine out and it felt good. being that i have only owned fords my whole driving life (save for 1 toyota but gas savers don't count ) it was just logical to want a mustang (more like craved like a mad man)

 

[No.11]

In 94 when the new generation mustang came out, my dad went to the dealer to buy a new car and brought home a red 91 lx hatchback 5.0. I still remember my mom being pissed at him for 1. Buying a used car and 2. Getting a stick shift (to this day she doesn't drive stick). My dad absolutely loved that car, but having a growing family and a mustang didn't do it, so he traded the mustang for an aerostar plus $1000 to my old soccer coach. He kept it for a while and finally sold it to some guy. Years later it turned out the guy got arrested and they took his car. They allowed my soccer coach to take the car from the impound, and then it was back on the market. My dad asked me to buy it for myself to bring it back into the family, and I did, for $1500 completely stock. I guess I was too preoccupied at the time with school and so I didn't really appreciate the car as I should have. Two years later I sold it for 2200. I felt the seller's remorse as soon as I saw my car being driven away.

Well I bough a 07 camry brand new and got tired of it after the initial 'new car' excitement wore off. It just wasn't a mustang! So two years after that my dad kept my camry and I moved on to my current car, a white 90 mustang lx hatch, this time not very stock at all hehehe. I plan holding onto it if I can even if I buy a newer car in the future.

 

[No.11]

Forgot to mention, and I can't edit bc I'm posting from my phone.

In my house, everybody has toyotas:
camry, corolla, Tacoma, sequoia, and rav 4. And then there's an outcast, which actually gets the most attention when anyone comes over...my stang.