Car is located in Charlotte, NC and I have to put a price so $5,500. Also, I don’t want this car to go to someone that will convert it to a 5.0 so I will do my best to ensure that you are not that person. There are tons of cars out there to cut up, go find another one.
I think it’s time to move on. I never planned on keeping it in the first place. I enjoy the project more than the result and I need something else. Speaking of that, I would be interested in Mustang trades (preferably FOX Mustangs) as long as they aren’t convertibles. I would talk serious about a NICE 85 ½-’86 SVO but it HAS to have a sunroof. Obviously I would be willing to come your direction if that were the case.
Since there are 17 pages of pictures of this car from every angle imaginable, I don’t feel the need to add many here.
http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthre...bo-Restoration
Also, many members on here have seen the car. Foxchassis is one of those so please ask his opinion before wasting your time and mine. Fearnot has also seen it and there are many others that saw it at Foxtoberfest. It looks better in the pictures than it does in person. It still wears a lot of OEM paint and as such, has many, many scratches, nicks, dings etc. The windshield is new but the others are acid-rain stained and there are scratches here and there in the glass. There is not ANY rust on ANYTHING whatsoever and there never has been. No accident or rust repairs EVER. Again, click the link and you can see this car from every angle including the pans. All body panels are OEM and
I believe all running gear is OEM as well but no, I have never tried to find the tags or serial numbers on them.
I think anyone serious about the car will go through the thread on it so again, I am not putting too much detail in here. The car comes with the interior pictured below and the OEM speedometer. I put a 140MPH in it when I got it and I am keeping that. Also as a result, mileage is unknown which it pretty much was before as well. I have the build sheet and every single receipt for every single part I have purchased since I owned it.
General Condition:
The car has sport seats in some pictures in that thread but the car did not come with sport seats and it is not leaving with sport seats unless I am trading you for your SVO. It is leaving with the matching front and rear 1989 interior pictured below.
I changed the transmission and rear end fluids with Royal Purple
I would say overall this car does not leak. Every once in a while I find a drop of oil under it but to me, it’s a 33 year old car and I don’t consider that a leak. It is not soaked with oil and the oil pan is dry. It has been garaged the whole time I had it and I don’t keep a pan under it.
Cruise works.
Power locks work
The car is being sold with the OEM shifter in it, not the one pictured
All the door hinge pins are brand new. Man, that was a HUGE PITA job. Maybe the worst one I did to it
Heat and blower motor work great
Do the T tops leak? Ha, of course they leak but it’s not terrible but yes.
Cooling fan works and still runs on the factory style fan controller. I know a lot of people say those suck but I don’t drive this 200 miles a year and it works fine for me. I did replace it with a new one.
All dash lights and exterior lights work and are extremely bright. I wish my other ’84 had lights as bright as these.
New heater core and I put a new AC evaporator in it at that time (again, in the thread above) but the AC was never even connected back up.
I didn’t want trash from the old hoses getting in the new evaporator and it still wears the hose plugs that it came with.
New radiator, hoses and heater hoses
The car currently has a JVC tape deck in it with 4 brand new speakers. I never had the OEM stereo
New fuel sending unit so yes, the gas gauge and all gauges works perfectly
New rotors, calipers, drums, shoes, brake hoses, pads, master cylinder
The car currently has the correct 1984 door panels on it that are near perfect. No holes. There are no pictures of those (I can certainly take one if you need to see it) but in the pictures it has 1982 door panels on it. I found a set of correct ones later on.
I live near Fox Mustang Restoration. I was on a budget so I have some “prototype” parts on it. The weatherstripping and also the dash pad are some of those. They are first generation reproduction parts he was having made.
Has an OEM SVO boost gauge (that works perfectly) in place of the useless OEM amp gauge
Drives and steers straight as an arrow and the tires probably don’t have 1,000 miles on them. They are wearing 100% perfect.
It’s dependable and runs good. The Turbo spools up and builds boost. Sometimes if you floor it you get what I can only describe as “catching the computer off guard” and it does not react and then after a few seconds, it does. It’s hard to describe. I suspect perhaps all these early first Gen EEC IV cars exhibit this behavior but I don’t know. If you never floor it, you will never see this behavior. It starts every time and idles fine every time. It does not die at lights or anything like that. It has never smoked at all.
It does not use coolant
If I can’t get what I want, I may also consider taking less and I will take out the SVO sail panels and put back the OEM ones and also, if you have wheels and tires, I will keep these and you can put yours on if that helps anyone. Also, I have the vinyl interior that came with the car when new and it is not in good shape but you ARE taking it with you when you leave with it. That is not optional. I didn’t want to throw it in a dumpster but I am not keeping it either.
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