Best looking and sounding Mustang ever

[guitar man]

When it comes to high performance street cars, I've always been a Mopar guy, but this is just pure car porn right here :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQhVGYF6-ho

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. Pretty much perfect.

I always liked the optional rear grill and he executed his perfectly with the crome highlights. The TP was a race-only config and the 427 was never an option in the Mustang (a huge mistake). You can get TP repro heads and intakes now, which is cool. I always favored the 67 fastback and the stainless interior trim. The T-bolt hood bubble is just right. Hell of a car.

[guitar man]

2. That's what I thought

Its just pure "car porn" to a guy like me :D

I don't even want to ask what a ride like that would sell for :crazy:

[NNN0LHI]

3. 427 was an option in the 1968 Mustang

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclecars/ford-mustang/ford-mustang-history-1.shtml

[Gold Metal Flake]

5. No, it was not.

That the Ford Motor Company created an engine code (W) for it and printed some ephemera prior to the production of model year 1968 has led to this long-running myth perpetuated by the copy-n-pasters on the internets. However no production 427-equipped Mustangss were produced and the 427 was not available as a factory option. People could have their dealers install the 427 if they coughed up enough cash but that is not the same as it being a factory option. While a couple of prototypes were built the W code 427 did not get the green light for the 1968 model run of the Mustang.

The only FoMoCo pony car that came equipped from the factory with the 427 was the 1968 Mercury Cougar GTE and in that case the 427 center oiler with hydraulic cam (same cam as the 428 CJ) was the standard and only engine available in that package. The W code 427 was not available as a separate option from Mercury. The W code 427 was phased out in April of 1968 for the GTE in favor of the Q code 428 CJ which could be produced for far less cost but offered nearly identical power (although the public HP rating was the famously low B curve dyno rating of 335). (The 427 was expensive to produce because the bore was at the limits allowed by the bore spacing and the engine required special molds with greater control of core shift during casting and more blocks were wasted due to core shift.)

Factory one-offs are excepted from any discussion of what engines were options. Ford made one SOHC-powered Galaxie at their factory for a space-going customer. That was a one-off, not "proof" that the SOHC ever was offered as an option.

These misinformed internet fan sites are a constant pain in the ass for Ford historians. The misinformation about the Cleveland engine series alone is like tuning into Glenn Beck for a biography of Tom Paine.

I got more words about the FE series engines if you want them! :-)

[NNN0LHI]

6. Boy, I won't fall for that story again

:hi:

[Blue_Tires]

4. yeah, that is way up there...

[JohnnyRingo]

7. I hate to differ with nostalgia

But this Mustang will blow the doors off an old swayback Mustang and appreciate as well (if you can even find one now):

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/22/iacocca-silver-45th-anniversary-edition-ford-mustang-introduced/



People who remember how fast their cars were in the '60s are suffering from early stages of dementia by now. Thanx to sequential port injection, programmable ignition control, and state of the art suspension systems that once were only available on competition cars, there's no comparison. There's a reason car companies quit making huge displacement engines that struggled to make one HP per cubic inch: "There's no longer a reason to." As a plus, since the new hot rods make efficient use of each cubic inch they're more earth friendly.

My 3.8 Buick Regal will easily dust all but the most radical muscle car before my automatic hits 4th gear.
Don't get me wrong, I still dearly love driving my '71 Triumph TR6 (nobody looks when I go by in my 4 door Buick), but technology hasn't sat still for all those years waiting for me to catch up.