What's Your Favorite Mustang?

"MtrRider Just Wants Doritos" (MtrRider)
10/07/2013 at 00:36 • Filed to: None

The fastback GT350 has always struck my Want nerve pretty hard. What's your favorite 'Stang?

DISCUSSION (30)

CounterTorqueSteer > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
10/07/2013 at 00:38

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My own

Anon > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
10/07/2013 at 00:40

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Rally stang!

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > CounterTorqueSteer
10/07/2013 at 00:42

That's nice. Are those Bulitt wheels?

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > Anon
10/07/2013 at 00:44

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saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
10/07/2013 at 00:44

I'm predicting millions of votes for Eleanor. My personal favorite is the Rally Stang as well, though. I don't like it as much as the Rally 'Vette, though.

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars
10/07/2013 at 00:44

The Rally version of anything is always going to be the best version.

Milky > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
10/07/2013 at 00:50

I respect the 5.0 and any clean first gen. but ... errrrr..... otherwise

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BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
10/07/2013 at 00:51

I am liking the odd-ball versions more and more.

Mustang SVO or 93 Cobra. Or most t-top Fox bodies otherwise.

I am getting more respect for resto-mod 71-73 Mustangs.

I think I would like to try my hand at a clean resto-mod 74-78 Mustang II fastback with rivet-on-style fender flares, and a simple understated paint job, and a little bit of a raked-forward stance, like an american alternative to the Nostalgic JDM scene.

I was a Mustang Fanatic for YEARS in High-school and college, and I loved the 64.5-66 fastbacks, and the 69-70 Sportsroofs, and all the usual suspects, and I still do. But they are kind of the easy choice that everybody gravitates to.

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
10/07/2013 at 01:00

I like the resto-mod Mustang II idea. I think the car looks alright, but the power was not there at all.

I'm sure my liking the fastbacks has nothing to do with the fact my mom had a 70 fastback with the base v8 (auto) when I was born. It leaked oil from everything that had oil but she loved it and so did I.

Manuél Ferrari > Milky
10/07/2013 at 01:12

Especially Vanilla Ice's 5.0

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
10/07/2013 at 01:13

Things have come a LONG way since the 1970s.

I am not sure whether I would go with a Turbo I4, with a volvo 16-valve head swap, or the likely easier small-block Ford crate motor. Built up with current tech, fuel injection, the works... Or there is always a Modular/Coyote motor swap option...

If the US could get the DOHC I6 engines that the australian market Fords still have access to, that would be a great choice, but not exactly plentiful on US soil.

Plus, I have this idea about grafting on the front bodywork and hood of the 71-73 Mustangs, with the full-width grille, and thin bumper.

Milky > Manuél Ferrari
10/07/2013 at 01:25

Not quite what I was thinking, this is my friend's five-oh.

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Manuél Ferrari > Milky
10/07/2013 at 01:44

Now that is a sick Mustang :)

Redd, the RX-7 that could > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
10/07/2013 at 01:48

It'd have to be this one, the Mach 1.

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Dakotacowboy > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
10/07/2013 at 02:06

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Cobra Jet

Turnkey, factory, NHRA legal, supercharged drag car capable of running 9 second 1/4 mile times right off the showroom floor and looks mean doing it.

Milky > Manuél Ferrari
10/07/2013 at 02:19

I'm sure he appreciates that.

jimmythered > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
10/07/2013 at 02:43

1968 Mustang Fastback

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nuf said

zadtheinhaler > jimmythered
10/07/2013 at 02:50

That's the right choice. Better in a dark metallic green, but that deep blue would do in a pinch. ;-)

jimmythered > zadtheinhaler
10/07/2013 at 03:24

JJZ 109 ?

We can only all dream of waking up as Steve McQueen...

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zadtheinhaler > jimmythered
10/07/2013 at 04:02

*ahem*

I'll be in my bunk

Atomic Buffalo > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos
10/07/2013 at 04:24

It used to be a 67 fastback, but Nic Cage kinda soiled that one.

I think a 1971 Mach 1 fastback. They look like roadgoing missiles, the automotive equivalent of a Century Series jet — bigger and heavier and less maneouverable, thirsty as hell, but long and sharp-edged and bescooped and fast-looking in that barely-under-control way.