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You say 13 grand is too much to pay for a '74 Corolla? So be it! But we know you like low-mileage Fords , so today we've got a super-rare Mustang with a double-digit odo reading! That's right, 99 miles! Judging from the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the nice Down On The Street SVO Mustang , we figure many of you are already fumbling for the "Nice Price" choice, before even reading the details. Hold on there, sport, because the details are well worth reading; this car is being offered by the same too-literate-for-eBay outfit that had the 2,000-mile Daytona Turbo Z . That's right, no CAPS LOCK gibberish to slog through, just a lengthy sales spiel that doesn't do much to explain why this car has so few miles; it was a show car for its early years, though we can't quite figure out if it was owned by Ford or someone else at the time. Regardless, it appears to be the real deal, and it can be yours for only $33,900! We especially like the "wink, wink"...
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Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, the Humber Super Snipe got out-prestiged by the Aston Martin DBS, according to the Choose Your Eternity poll , and you'd think we'd follow up Britain-on-Britain and Italy-on-Italy matchups with a matchup honoring the other PCH Superpower, France. Instead, we're going to make PCH Supergalactic Megapower France do battle with lowly PCH underdog America today, and then we'll have a France-on-France matchup. Can a Ford Falcon ever hope to generate the kind of toxic sulfurous flames needed to make an ordinary garage into a Hell Garage? The early Falcon was simple and reliable, shared a lot of components with other Ford products, and served as the basis for the first-gen Mustang, which- as we all know- benefits from compre-goddamn- hen sive aftermarket parts support. Sure it can, provided there's a backyard-built blow-through-carbureted...
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newVideoPlayer("/80_Pinto_476.flv", 506, 423,""); How about the Bauer family, with its ten Pintos in 1980? Hard to believe, but Pintos were once as common a sight as the Taurus is now. With 38 very optimistic highway MPG, these multi-Pinto families could thumb their nose at that damn Ayatollah and his gas-price-jacking hijinks!
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newVideoPlayer("/84_LTD_494.flv", 506, 423,""); The Fox-based '84 Ford LTD really did handle pretty well… if you checked the boxes for all the suspension options that came on the cop version when you bought one, that is, and for some reason that bit of info doesn't get much play in this ad. This ad would have been far more entertaining had Mr. Bondurant taken the base version out for some door-handle-scraping racetrack action. Why, some madmen even autocross the Fox LTD!
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newVideoPlayer("/82_Ford_Granada_Germany_494.flv", 506, 423,""); Now, you might think German men would be at a disadvantage when trying to score with the ladies in Paris, but she'll be saying "Ja, ja!" when Hans rolls into town in a brand-new Ford Granada. No, not this kind of Granada - we mean the European Granada ; Ford thought the name was so good that they needed to assign it to two totally different vehicles. Paris-based Franzouse gets the credit for sharing this one with us; we can assume he's now heading to Berlin to see what kind of effect his Mehari will have on the women there.
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Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Though we've seen many of Alameda's first-generation Mustangs (a '65 , a '66 , another '66 , a '68 , a '69 , and a '73 ) and even a Mustang II , the Fox Mustang hasn't been well represented here. In fact, we've only had this beater '86 … until now. Yes, parked just a block or so from the '89 Ferrari Mondial T , here's a very nice example of the rare Mustang SVO . In '86, the SVO came with a 200-horsepower 2.3 liter "Pinto" four-banger, essentially the intercooled version of the engine used in the Merkur XR4Ti. Speaking of the XR4Ti , check out that wing! Even though the turbo 2.3 made the same horsepower as the 5.0 V8 and the SVO came with all manner of cool brake and suspension goodies, sales were miserable. Why? Price tag on the V8 Mustang GT for '86: $10,691. Price of the '86...
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newVideoPlayer("/83_Ford_FSeries_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Ford made the good ol' 240 and 300 inline sixes starting in 1964, and they had the torque and longevity to be great truck engines. By 1983, however, pushrod sixes were going the way of the vinyl LP- quick, get a metric designation on that thing, so buyers will think it's one of those newfangled V6s! We're a little skeptical that a Late Malaise F series pickup ever got 30 MPG highway, but maybe that test was done at a "highway speed" of 42 MPH, using a liquid measurement known as "Ford Truck Gallons," which are equal to 1.5 regular gallons.
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Back when we had the Do Fox Mustangs Belong In DOTS? poll , 63% of Jalopnik readers who bothered to vote said they thought it was a good idea. So, I grabbed the camera and set out on foot to photograph the first pre-90s example I could find. 28 seconds later, here's this abused-but-proud '86 LX showing up in my viewfinder (the same thing happened when I went looking for a Malaise Volvo 240 ). These things are still everywhere on the island (along with their Fairmont, Granada, Mark VII, and other Fox brethren). Sure, I could have held out for a '79, or maybe one with 80s graphics, but beaters are cool! There sure isn't any mistaking the decade of this car! All it lacks is the faded black plastic louvers over the rear window. This car has the Canadian Essex V6 , but it's a non-hellish project to swap in a junkyard 5.0 and take advantage of the light weight of the LX. Lose the faux-wire-wheel hubcaps and chrome fender trim, apply a coat of black primer, and this car would...
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JanTheMan has found this 1980 Ford Capri that's been upgraded to full-on "Tuff Willys" status. We especially like the beautifully crafted custom fender flares, and the cowcatcher in front is a definite keeper. Stock up a few cases of akvavit to keep in the bed and you'll be ready to hoon your way through that long Scandinavian winter in style . If you don't speak Swedish, you can try the Google Language Tools version , which seems to indicate that a "well known rally driver" was involved in the construction of this fine customized motor vehicle. [ Blocket.se ]
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newVideoPlayer("/85_Mustang_Breakdance_476.flv", 506, 423,""); So you think the Cocaine Factory '85 Duster Ad was the most Eighties car ad you've ever seen? Maybe so, but you're tapping a rich vein of 80s-ness when you add some low-end moonwalking and vaguely break-dance-esque music to an ad for a Turbo Mullet Era Fox Mustang. And only $6,885... for the car with the 88-horsepower 2.3 liter four-cylinder.
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newVideoPlayer("81_Mustang_HotStuff_476.flv", 506, 423,""); When you're a six-foot-tall, 80-pound 1981 babe, the list of things you need for a hot night on the dance floor is pretty short: 1) Cocaine. 2) Absurdly high heels. 3) A Ford Mustang. 4) Cocaine. 5) Cocaine. Ford was eager to provide Item #3, and the 88 HP four-cylinder engine lets you save your money for you-know-what!
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The blowout Choose Your Eternity polls are fun, but we really enjoy the nail-bitingly close races... which is what we got yesterday, with the Roots-blown Old Beetle just barely beating the Pro Street Peugeot in a 175-165 vote split. Does that mean a German car just upset Project Car Hell GigaTeraPower France, or does the Detroit engine water down the 200-proof Frenchness of the Peugeot? We'll leave that question open for now, because today we're going to see how an Italian basket case fares against a brutalized European Ford! When a car ad leads off with the statement "This is another car that I have exhumed from my graveyard," you know you're in for a real treat. Better install some good air-conditioning in your garage, because it'll get mighty hot in there once you drag this '76 Lancia Scorpion inside! You Yurpeans might know this car as the Montecarlo , but don't let the similarity fool you- the US version had 81 horsepower instead of 120, because Yurp...
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newVideoPlayer("86_Taurus_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Now there is a personal car that has exactly exactly what we've been looking for... and what a relief! Folks in the mid-80s were tired of im personal cars- or at least ones with sharp angles- and so the "melted-bar-of-soap" styling of the first Taurus came to be the standard for just about everything to come out of Detroit for the next decade or two. Taur us!
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newVideoPlayer("81_Ford_Escort_SS_476.flv", 463, 387,""); It's hard to believe there was ever a time without Ford Escorts in North America, but the '81 was the very first (and, miserable as those early Escorts were, they were much better cars than the Pintos they replaced). The SS was the top-of-the-line Escort for '81, with a whopping 65 horsepower driving the front wheels. Thanks to a short flash of a baseball score (and super-obsessed baseball geeks ), we know this advertisement was aired on May 23, 1981.
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Since we've already seen the Chrysler LA and Chevrolet small-block engines in this series, we're about due for the V8 Ford made by the millions during about the same span of decades: the Windsor small-block. Starting with the 221- and 260-cubic-inch versions in 1962, Ford put Windsors in cars and trucks for the next 40 years (and you can still buy brand-new crate 302s and 351Ws from Ford today). Ford didn't make the Windsors quite as friendly for component mix-and-match fun as did their Detroit competitors (and perhaps the 351W is different enough to deserve its own EOTD entry), but the numbers don't lie: the Windsor was a true workhorse. Make the jump to hear a Windsor-equipped Cobra in action. [Wikipedia] Commenter Andy_Wallwhore suggested yesterday that some auditory engine pr0n might be a good idea for these posts, so we're trying out the idea.
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