Posted on 03/29/2002 10:02:31 PM PST by Long Cut
Good news for gearheads! It looks as if FoMoCo is out to secure the top musclecar slot for itself in the new century. This ride is one of my "dream cars", more photos are available at this excellent link for all things 'stang. The original article, which features tech specs, can be found HERE AT STANGNET
These are the original way to pi$$ off the enviro-pinkos, AND look cool doing it. Cars like this are one of my many reasons for loving this country like I do.
Someone up in Ford remembered us...the American Car Enthusiast!!!
The Magnum 500 wheel of the '60s Mach-1 makes a comeback!
If I had the funds, I'd certainly own the new model.
My first car when I turned 16 in 1984 was a '66 Mustand coupe with a 289cid under the hood. I loved that car. Getting rid of it three years later was one of my biggest regrets.
Why do they call them "musclecars?"
But build them penis shaped?
[Little-penis]
As far as the new 'Stang goes...well it's OK I guess. Not much for shade tree weakers to do anymore and that's what I used to enjoy doing. Now about all you can do is add cosmetcs. Engines require more than a screwdriver, wrench and an ear to tune...sigh.
And even after you have a car you like, there aren't many places to go..at least around here in Pittsburgh. Used to be drive-ins, cruises to the greasy spoons, and long stretches of road you had pretty much to yourself.
A run to our local high school ( built 30 years ago several miles OUTSIDE of the school district!) meant a sometimes interesting ride along twisty two lane into the countryside. "Dat road BAAAD man! She go up and down and wiggle all ova de place!"
There's one "S" turn coming off of Country Club hill near the golf course. Downhill into the left sweeper then uphill into a decreasing radius right. Oh man hitting that at 9/10's was an opposite lock slider ending with a tire screeching, power on drift outta the last bend!
If the "right chick" was in the navi seat a night of passion was almost guaranteed.
Sadly most of the time it wasn't the "right chick", and all you got was "take me home NOW!" with the only phisical contact being between said chick's hand and the driver's face. Sigh.
Now the entire area is built up. Bumper to bumper traffic and cops everywhere. Drive-ins are either motel chains or flea markets. Greasy spoons are Denny's. And what used to get this gearhead's blood racing...well not much gets this gearhead's blood actually racing anymore.
In 1967 I had a brand new convertible with the 289. Sadly it was an automatic so other family member could drive it. But it still cranked and over a few years I managed to set it up pretty cool.
Koni shocks - at the time THE shock for road racing - big sway bars, light weight wheels wearing Firestone original wide ovals, Edelbrock topped with a Holly for way too much over carburation even with a hotter cam, and some dress up items too including the then obligatory racing strip down the drivers side where GOD meant for them to be. >p? Get the 289 rev's up after the "too much carb for the cam" bog coming off the line and she'd fly!
If I recall correctly - and I probably don't - Qarter times dropped from something like a little over 15 seconds total stock to 13's without too much trouble.
And of course I wanted a road car, not a drag machine. Come to think of it I don't recall ever topping out. Seems to me I pegged the stock speedo way before the rev's ran out.
The only time I was emabarassed, excluding being with the "right chick", was matching off against a buddy of mine and his 56 Chrysler Windsor. 362(?) hemi with pushbutton automatic. His family needed a car and a kindly elderly man from the church told him he could have the then 11 year old Windsor if he could get it started.
It wasn't rusted too bad so we put a new battery in it, it started and away we went. Since my family had the only house with a driveway we put it there and tuned it up over a couple of days.
Well guys talkin and stuff and eventually we decided to drag. ran out old 60 by the Twin Hi-way drive in late one Saturday night. Lined up...the "right chick" being with him got out and waved us off with a strategically removed article of her clothing. With the rest of they Guyz and Gurlz...including Bar aka "the Wrong Chick" who was with me following, we were off. Well tha damn hemi Windsor was anyway. Caught by the line bog, and possibly distracted by the "right chick", left me a good car length behind. Tail light city the whole way.
He went home with BOTH "right and wrong chicks" and wearing a BIG smile. Another Sigh.
Revenge was mine a few weeks later though when I ran the ministers son who claimed his Electra 225 with the Super Wildcat could beat me any road any time. having learned from the Windsor experience I picked the road. This time a rough, twisty 2 mile stretch of Ewing road from the bottoms. past the radio station, and then along a heavily wooded ridge above Lagaman's Farm and back into the more mundane community.
Left him at the line...last I saw was his headlights in my mirror as I hit the first turn...a sharp right hander at the radio staion. Even backing down near the end of the run and there was no sign of him. My buddy and i stopped at my house and waited on the front porch. And waited...and waited...'bout an hour later he and his buddy came walking up the street.
Turns out he never made the first turn. SLide straight off into the field by the radio station. Luckily it was a daytime only station so nobody was home. But he and his buddy had to walk back to my place. And then we all had to chip in for the money to get a two truck out in the middle of the night to pull the Buick back up onto the road.
I didn't go to church the next morning.
Lord, Im rambling again...It's terrible to be old.
Yup I'll check out the new "Stang and have a suggestion not just for that car but all the manufacturerers...
PUT SOME DAMN NUMBERS ON THE "MINOR" GAUGES!"
prisoner6
Ironic in a way because the first v8 stangs were 260's but a different block. 289's and later 302's were just bored out 260's I think.
prisoner6
Think what they'd do if they reworked the legendary 429 SCJ motor for today. I heard, in fact, that SVT did just that, as a one-off experiment and got around 700 hp with a turbo setup. I don't think we'll ever see gusto like that in a car again, though.
Anyway, thanks for the responses, guys! My latest research indicates an MSRP on the MACH 1 of about $28,000, which would appear, to today's market, to be at least reasonable. It fits the MACH, both in price and ponies, between the GT and the Cobra in the Ford lineup. Nice choices, and I'm on the market now, my '91 is getting a little long in the tooth(I bought the 302-powered LX coupe new), and GM has, for all the wrong reasons, killed their own ponycar stable(Camaro and Firebird are officially Tango Uniform).
Well, I'm off to change the oil on the LX and Mrs. Cut's Escort. Talk to Y'all later!
I was in a video store the other day, and there was a whole impromptu discussion group going on around the "F" section of New Releases. Some guy had been about to rent "The Fast And The Furious" 
but then another guy browsing around said he hated the movie because all the cars are foreign cars except one or two, and only the foreign cars are depicted as GREAT cars... So people began to talk about whether the movie was a big commercial for foreign cars, an insult to US cars, and whether such issues should even matter to someone trying to find a good movie to see.
It was a pretty fun visit to the video store. (I decided to pass on the movie, even though I do think Jordana Brewster is the sexiest thing out there...)
Mark W.
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