For years I have stated that my "fun" car will always be a convertible.
I could never understand why anyone wouldn't want the cool factor of the drop top. And as auctioneers always say:
When the top goes down the price goes up"
However this time around I decided to go with a fasback.
IMHO the Fastback looks racier..
My reasons for not buying a convertible are as follows:
Lighter weight
Less body flex/more solid feel.(I still have SFC's)
Rarely is the weather ideal for top down driving. To hot/to cold.
Tired of passengers bitchin about the wind. (never bothered me?)
So I guess the moral of the story is never say never.
On the other hand my fun car will always be a stick!
Scott
i go with fastback cause i have one and all the top rare mustangs with the big engine packages are fastback mostly.... but i cant rule out any of the others.. ive seen some really nice coupes at shows that i wish i had and then sometimes on those nice days you always wish you had a vert... if only they made a push button which will change your car to whatever you want it to be... lol....but as long as you have a mustang most people will think your lucky....
I love my convertible but I think when I buy my C5 vet it will be a hardtop. I'm going to do all the crazy things that I always had to much sense to do in my old stang one I get the vet. Of course that doesn't leave to much.
i'm pretty partial to the 69 coupes, never was a big fan of the 70 coupes though since they brought the c-pillar and the quarter flush and lost the body line there they also did away with the style line on the rear quarter behind the wheel well. without those lines they always looked too plain to me.
my dream is to one day own every bodystyle of the 69 GT's and each available GT engine. so right now i have a 351 GT coupe, that just leaves a 428 fastback and a 390 vert.
no chepie i think you're wrong there. you can do that in a car with t-tops or a big sunroof as well. besides if you have t-tops or a sunroof you have less chance of getting caught looking up
I prefer coupes cause they're the cars keeping the hobby affordable. Most people want fastbacks and 'verts, but the coupes are good looking cars too, and most of us are just content to have a classic Mustang. If I could afford a nice fastback, I'd probably have two coupes instead, my '66 and a '67/'68.
I'll have to find the pic of my old 68 in action during a "Miss English Leather" pageant... And then there were the New Jersey Generals Cheerleaders.....