What cars do you regret getting rid of?

[MrNobody]

Very nice! Which model years for your convertible and coupe? All the Mustangs from that time have such timeless style.

At the time I bought and owned my '69 Fastback (a very, very basic example) they were far more affordable and attainable than they are today. I think that goes for all 1965-1973 Mustang Fastbacks at this point in time.

Buying any rusted out body shell and merging some bits of it with a Dynacorn aftermarket replica body shell used to be a very outlandish proposition but today in some cases it might be a more reasonably financially tolerable way to go about building a good Fastback. Especially if what you really want is to fully customize your vintage Mustang rather than keep it as close to concours original as possible for shows.

Then again... stay in the market looking long enough and a good deal is bound to come up eventually.

The coupe is a 65. That one is somewhat of a hotrod/restomod. The convertible is a 67. Both started their life as v8 289 cars. The 65 is sitting on a full ridetech suspension, disc brakes up front. No power steering no power brakes. Just full unadulterated power. It has a 393 stroker. The 67 convertible is basically stock.

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[dsomegax]

M2C

 

[Johnny Utah]

White 1992 Ford Mustang 5 Speed manual GT 5.0L with red interior. God I loved that car.

 

[KahnBB6]

The coupe is a 65. That one is somewhat of a hotrod/restomod. The convertible is a 67. Both started their life as v8 289 cars. The 65 is sitting on a full ridetech suspension, disc brakes up front. No power steering no power brakes. Just full unadulterated power. It has a 393 stroker. The 67 convertible is basically stock.

They both sound like beautiful examples! The 393 stroker in your '65 I have no doubt is a powerful torque monster. I couldn't ever do one of those cars without power steering and power brakes-- more power to you setting up your '65 with a more pure track-like setup in both regards.

And a '67 convertible which came stock with the 289 engine... that's about as classic 60's Mustang as it gets! Ever rarer these days to find totally stock examples.

Very nice pair of Mustangs you have there!

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This is was over 20 years ago for me but at the time the Total Control front coil-over suspension with their redesigned front crossmember was what I had my eye on.

I had a spare 302 block and heads set aside to build but the ambitious dream engine I really wanted (at the time) would have been taking a Ford 2.3L SVO / Turbocoupe iron block bottom end, building it with forged internals and then modifying a Volvo B234F twin cam cylinder head which already *almost* fit onto the Ford block apart from some of the water cooling passages needing some help and a few other things which had been figured out already in a Newsgroup thread on the subject.

From there it would have come down to what then-modern turbocharger choice to go with and what engine management to use with a 93 octane base tune.

Some people still have/build that specific Frankenstein Ford/Volvo engine but I don't think it's very popular any longer due to the custom work involved. It would have been sacrilege in a classic 60's Mustang, sure... but I really liked the idea of the similar style engine mounting between the 302 block and the 2.3L block and the idea of a very durable closed deck iron block twin cam with a modern responsive turbo pushing very respectable power... in an otherwise externally stock looking 1969 Fastback.

...Especially since this would have still been a fundamentally Ford powerplant known for its ability to take a lot of boost and produce some very nice power numbers given its displacement. Reading about the never produced 1987+ Mustang SVO with a prototype 2.3L twin cam engine in the 300hp range gave me the idea... and this was the closest you could get to replicating that prototype engine.

The transmission would have been a Tremec WC T-5 of the period or perhaps a Tremec T56 6-speed. A locker rear end and Baer or Wilwood brakes would have rounded out the other major hardware changes. And some seats with side bolstering.

Sadly it never happened but it would have been a fun challenge to end up with a very unique Mustang in the end!

 

[Jaxness]

None, because I always upgraded.
Plus, it helps that I make them all look exactly the fucking same ?

 

[zrk]

None, because I always upgraded.
Plus, it helps that I make them all look exactly the fucking same ?

Excellent taste.

 

[decodeddiesel]

I definitely miss my 2005 STi, but I was so done with Subarus when I sold it and my 2 other Subarus in 2019.

 

[Supra_UK_]

This might be unknown to most countries but here in the UK we had a car called the DS3 Performance, we call it a hot hatch here.
Extremely rare, only saw 1 other one in a year, felt as rare as the Supra but obviously MUCH cheaper, got plenty of looks because just like the Supra, people would always get a boring VW or Ford performance model over a DS.

To be fair though, seats, steering wheel and interior felt even more premium than the Supra. Engine was magnificent, only a 4 banger but so smoothe, it made it feel larger than it was! Chuking it around a country road, crazy torque steer but amazing brembo brakes and an LSD upfront, really fun.

Sold it as I lived in a shitty neighborhood apartment with drug dealers everywhere, car was parked in an allocated space, and I had no water tap to keep it as clean as I'd like, so I gave up as I was stressing about it so I bought a piece of trash instead for a while.

Few years later finally got my own home and moved outta town, garage, saved up for my dream car the Supra, now hidden away and shiny; yet, at the time I definitely regretted selling it.
I absolutely adored the headlights, xenon and LED, with scrolling signals.

 

[Supra_UK_]

None, because I always upgraded.
Plus, it helps that I make them all look exactly the fucking same ?

Really cool!

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