What's the story with your 'stang?

skunk21 · Apr 1, 2009

I'm sure most of the stangers on here have some interesting stories on how they acquired thier stang. what made you seek out your stang and the story behind it.

nisreo · Apr 1, 2009

Well mines not super interesting, basically I had my first fox at 19, had frame rot and junked it. Then I got a girlfriend....... yea so I broke up with her in the summer for 3 months. During those 3 months I bought my fox for $1000, rebuilt the top end, put a new exhaust on it, DIY black headliner, fixed the guage cluster, new door handles and a bunch of other little stuff. Now Im back together with her and I havent done a damn thing to it since....

85_SS_302_Coupe · Apr 1, 2009

Well in short, i had an '83 hatch with a 351W, 6pt cage etc set up for drag. The car was a total PITA because i worked on it for 2 years and dumped loads of cash into it and never got to drive it. I eventually got sick of messing with it and just wanted a car i could get into and drive and upgrade piece at a time so i put it in Auto Trader for trade and found a guy downtown in Cincinnati with my coupe. I had always wanted a coupe so when he called i headed straight to his house to look it over. At the time, it was a dark blue color (Maaco paint disaster) with a white Cincinnati Composites hood (total crap) and a C4 trans. He built it up for his wife to drag race and she lost interest so he wanted my hatch to put a race engine in. A few days later he came over with my coupe on a trailer, pulled the hatch onto the trailer and we traded straight up. That was 6 years ago this November.

5.0Torx · Apr 1, 2009

Bought mine on ebay from an ******* in Iowa who didnt tell me it was two cars welded together just behind the rear passenger foot well. Been upgrading it since but i plan to get a 4 banger in good condition and either build up an aluminum Boss 302 block or drop my 5 lug and 5.0 into it and junk my shell.

25thmustang · Apr 1, 2009

I was 9 years old, and quarter midget racing. Dad decided that was waaay too much coin. Sold the 1/4 midget and bought a 1966 coupe. We restored that and when I started making money at 14-15, I dumped every penny into it. Ended up right before turning 16 the choice came to use that as a toy car and buy a crappy daily, or sell the 66 and pay the parents for their 89. So I bought their 89 LX for what I sold the 66 for (of course I personally didn't sell it, dad had to, I was too young). The 89 I still have, only it isn't an Oxford White/Red AOD hatch anymore, it's in the sig.

SteedaGT9150 · Apr 1, 2009

grew up around it ever since i was young. guy stopped driving it and it sat for a couple years, so when i was 15 i bought it.

wannabefastfox · Apr 1, 2009

I was 14 when my brother bought a white 91 GT hatch. At the time, I wasn't real big into cars, but I had thought that the New Edge stangs looked way better than the fox bodies, so when he came home with the fox, I was pretty disappointed. All that changed about 5 minutes later when I went for a ride in it. I had to have one, too. It took me 3 years of searching and trying to convince my dad, who is a chevy guy, to let me buy a mustang. In those 3 years, i had never found a "good enough car for the price" (being I was in high school with only a summer job, it had to be somewhat inexpensive). Anyways, I was searching the classifieds on stangnet during my physics class, and by the wills of fate, I found a red 91 gt hatch in amazing (and stock) condition right here in Sioux Falls, SD. It was like destiny. I was so excited to tell my dad, and when I did, he said no way. I was crushed, but luckily for me, I had already emailed the guy saying I was very interested. So, he called and told my dad that we only had one more day to come and look at it or else he was selling it to someone else. We went and looked at it, and it was too nice to pass up. Wrote the owner a check on the spot and she was mine. Greatest investment of my life!!!

JKidd · Apr 1, 2009

Back in '92 I bought my Deep Emerald Green LX Hatch. My uncle (in South Carolina) also bought a '92 Deep Emerald Green LX Convertible. He immediately sent it to Steeda for some motor work. I spent the next 8 years upgrading my ride as well. Sold mine in 2000 (wife, house, two kids, etc.) and it became tough to keep her.

In '96, the same uncle bought a '96 Cobra Convertible and decided to sell the '92...to my father (his sister's husband). My father picked it up in '98 with only 2k miles on it (sat in the garage most of the time). My father retired last year and really didn't take the convertible out that much - asked me if I wanted it.

So, last summer, I bought the convertible from my father with 43k on the odometer.

And that's that.

rscapri30682 · Apr 1, 2009

I have a 1982 Mercury Capri RS t-top 5.0 5-speed car. I bought the car for $75 in 2000, when I was in high school. It had no motor or trans. It had been sitting in this field since 1990. My mother use to drive me to grade school everyday, and I'd see it everyday and dream about it. So, finally bought it when I turned 16. It was about the cheapest way i could get my mits on a true 5.0 car. Slowly, and I mean Slowly... I've been building the car up. Sort of rough but not bad. Needed new floor pans and still needs a set of doors.

FrankenStang · Apr 1, 2009

Ok, before I start, NO FLAMING. I didn't do it.

1980 Mercury Capri:

Back in 1990, we traded in our 1985 Ford Escort on an Oxford white 1990 5.0 LX hatch. My Ex went nuts spending money on it. I hardly ever got to drive it. I was like "WTF? I want one too!" So, in '91 he bought me a **** brown 1980 Mercury Capri non 5.0. I was like, "Oh, no you di'in't!!!" So, eventually, I talked him into at least swapping in a 5.0 and painting it a different color. Brown = He agreed. Wow, really? Him and his brother had bought a a few wrecked Foxes and they swapped in the drive train from one, suspension and interior from another. All I wanted was more power, two tailpipes and paint! Then him and his brother had this hair brained Idea... "Let's turn it into a Mustang. Let's do such a thorough job that the only thing that will give it away are the fenders!".

... and that's how "FrankenStang" was born and yes, we all screamed "It's aliiiiiive!" when it was started for the first time.

I won't lie, when it was finished I was all, It was awesome. I still has it too. I'm now on the hunt for Capri body parts. Not gonna mess with the interior though and the mechanicals will remain the same.

Here is my progress thread...

http://forums.stangnet.com/764657-1...aero-conversion-reversal-progress-thread.html

FrankenStang · Apr 1, 2009

rscapri30682 said:
I have a 1982 Mercury Capri RS t-top 5.0 5-speed car. I bought the car for $75 in 2000, when I was in high school. It had no motor or trans. It had been sitting in this field since 1990. My mother use to drive me to grade school everyday, and I'd see it everyday and dream about it. So, finally bought it when I turned 16. It was about the cheapest way i could get my mits on a true 5.0 car. Slowly, and I mean Slowly... I've been building the car up. Sort of rough but not bad. Needed new floor pans and still needs a set of doors.

Pics!!!

my2foxes · Apr 1, 2009

Well I grew up with a dad who always owned a Mustang. He had 2 69 mach 1's, a 66 GT , and a 94GT .... I worked at my dads shop everyday after school and most weekends from the time I was at least 13 . For my first car I had a 66 mustang with a 302 and a C4. It was fun and nice but felt more like my dads kind of car ...... growing up as a child of the 80's there was only one muscle car available ...a fox . I told my dad I wanted to sell the 66 to buy a 5.0 a white one with a sunroof and a 5 speed ..... a couple months went by and nothing happened , then one december night I came home from working at winn- dixie and there she sat in the driveway .... it was perfect (minus the wrecked front end ) white , factory sunroof, 5 speed , my dad ,brother and myself fixed it up good as new ... 14 years later I still have it and it's still the best present I ever got ...

NIKwoaC · Apr 1, 2009

Bought the '86 from a old man and his son back in 2002 for 5 grand. He had to pull the dust cover off of it for me to see it. 30K miles, all original, f-ing mint. Wish I could say the same today.

slp352 · Apr 1, 2009

Mine all started with Dad's 79 Cobra Mustang, I was three when he bought it, ordered it sight unseen in yellow with black interior. He had it till 86, and all through high school I lusted over two cars, the charcol grey 66 mustang that one kid at school had and the little black LX 5.0 that one of the other kids had. So while in college I finally traded my Z24 in for a 91 Hatch LX 5.0, I love that car, to bad I let the x-wife talk me into trading it for something more economical, so fast forward several years and one divorce later, I bought that 66 mustang and then learned what it is like to have a 40 year old car, well all I wanted then was my 91 back so after two years of hassels with the 66 I traded it for an 83, then one year later I bought my 93 coupe and now they are sitting side by side while I swap the drivelines out.

90lxcoupe · Apr 1, 2009

My story is a little long winded and definitly painful, but worth the read

I had a 90 GT hatch that was pretty nice, had a super clean black interior that i paid 2250 for, and sold for 3750 9 months later, and the only thing i did to it was headers. I sold the car to look for a notchback.

So 9 months later after looking at about 15 cars that werent up to my standards, i was on ebay and found what looked like a clean notch that happened to be about 2 hours from where i lived. I drove there the next weekend, loved the car, told my parents about it(i was 17 at the time), and the next weekend we were driving back and I put a deposit on the car.

So tuesday night rolls around, and Me, my Mom, a Family friend named Paul(who was nice enough to lend me his dealer plate) were driving to pick up my new car... I dont think ive ever been so excited about something in my life, and i may never ba again. We get the car, and start the drive home, its pouring rain, extremly hard to see, and Paul is driving the car. As we are approaching hartford we could'nt read the signs and accidnentally got off the highway onto I-84, no big deal, we will just get off I-84 and head back to 91 North...

This is where it gets interesting. As we are drving down the onramp to get back on 91 the ass-end of the car kicks out on Paul, and he does everything he can to avoid it, but inevitably hits a jersey barrier. This is where it gets scary, the drivers door wont open, so he tells me to check the damage. I look at the bumper, and its pretty scratched up, not the worst ive seen but it wasnt pretty. So now we are facing the wrong direction on the onramp while 18 wheelers are getting too close for comfort, we get the car turned around, and limp it home.

So the damage ended up being pretty bad, we had to paint the bumper, and install a brand new radiator support. So i had to work on the car for a month before i could drive it. It was a bittersweet night for sure. Here i am almost 6 years later, lots of different engine combos, and a ton of good memories. I've been through alot with this car, starting with the first night...

Ozz · Apr 1, 2009

I was shopping for a Trans Am

FrankenStang · Apr 1, 2009

mansonozz said:
I was shopping for a Trans Am

Darkwriter77 · Apr 1, 2009

TEH NOTCH: Used to have an '89 notch back when I lived in KCMO (circa 2001), and like an idiot I sold it off for some dumb reason. Regretted it ever since. Found this one in May of '05 (I think) for $2,000 for sale by some kid way out in Surprise, AZ. Had a few things done to it here and there by the owner before him, but all the kid did was have a shop hack-weld in some cats to the off-road H-pipe and throw on some crappy tailpipe and then drove the holy hell out of it. Some Mexicans (according to the kid) broke the sunroof to steal his stereo one night, so he used silicone house caulking to glue in a sheet of Plexiglas in its place. But the car had a recently rebuilt motor and everything else seemed in order, and I was really eager just to get my hands on another notch, so I went for it. Car looked like this when I bought it:

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My ex was with me at the time and her first words upon seeing it were, "You're paying HOW MUCH for THAT?!?" She totally didn't understand my excitement.

I rattle-canned the car white with black trim at first, then later redid it in the Rustoleum Gloss Black that it now proudly wears (and is holding up well after almost 4 years). After about $6,000 worth of miscellaneous repairs and upgrades, basically rebuilding the car from end to end a piece at a time - King Cobra clutch, new flywheel, hardened input shaft, steel input shaft bearing retainer, FRPP driveshaft, injectors from a '95 4.6L T-Bird, damn near every sensor/sending unit/switch/relay under the hood, new sunroof, gauges, tires and wheels (twice), several exhaust setups, motor/trans mounts, tail lenses, etc. - this is how it now sits (before I waxed it the other day):

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THE BLACK PEARL: Around October of last year, I traded some dude my '86 GT AOD 'vert for this '84 LX 5.0 AOD hatch because I was frickin' sick of all the 'vert-related issues. Haven't put a LOT of money into this car, really, but I've put a TON of work and time into ironing out the issues with this thing's cooling system and trying to get it to run right, in general. When I first got it, here's the mess I took in:

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The idiot prior owner jury-rigged a bunch of things on the car and ran straight water in the system for who-knows-how-long, which is largely what has been the cause of my headaches with this car. Supposedly, the 84k miles shown on the odometer and title are original, but I've never Carfax'ed it to verify it. Anyway, now it runs a helluva lot better, and it looks like this:

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5.0Droptop · Apr 1, 2009

I found my 93 on craigslist with a really crappy cell phone pic in the ad. Met the guy that night and ended up trading my super clean 94 2 door yukon for it.

QUICK91LX · Apr 1, 2009

Well I have been through way too many to tell the story of all of them, but the first one goes like this...

Summer 1999
A local small used car lot tended to have a few fox Mustangs and what do I see one day but a black on black 1982 GT on turbines. I went over that car with a fine toothed comb and went back day after day to see it. Overall good shape, only $1995. After weeks of bugging my parents they finally agreed to let me get it. Dad and I test drove it on a Monday and man does it rip! (or so I think, I hadn't been in a 5.0 since I was a little kid) My aunt agreed to loan me the funds and that Saturday morning dad and I head out to Home Depot, intending to stop and buy the car on the way back. As we pass the place i see a SOLD sign in the window...I am crushed. Dad tries to encourage me but my day was shot. He got us lunch at the deli up the road and as we walk out we see a black 85 GT looking at us with a dealer tag from the little lot with the 82. He pulls out ahead of us, kicks it sideways and we follow him back to the lot. It wasnt the 82, but man to me it was sweet. It needed work but for $1000 we grabbed it and took it home that day. As the months progressed and we took it apart to work on it we found that the front subframes were rotten. Shoulda noticed it before, but I was excited to have found a sweet 5.0...Sold it and got a Bronco II because I was on a 4x4 kick at the time. Came across another 85 GT a few months later and got that, sold the Bronco...and the rest is history!! Here I am 14 Mustangs and 27 cars later...but still haven't had an 82 GT yet. I am convinced that if I had gotten that 82, I would still have it today. I saw it a few times in the town where my grandparents live, and then just happened to come across it for sale again, this time painted kermit the frog green with MUSTANG spelled out in adhesive vinyl letters across the back bumper...poor car.

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skunk21

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nisreo

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85_SS_302_Coupe

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FrankenStang

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Ozz

I think I have a problem here.

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Now, give me a damn CT!

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...all those nights we shared, and you're a dude??

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