There really is no accounting for taste in cars.
I would like to have another 1968 Ford Custom Wagon. Bench seats and all. When I was a kid nothing screamed Mom and Dad/Grocery getter more than a wagon. I've missed that car for more than 30 years.
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IO saw a SN95 yesterday, it was in really good condition, and it wasn't that bad of looking car.
Problem is, it looked like something that could have been produced by any nondescript manufacturer. I couldn't help but think that Mustang looked more Asian than American.
I smiled when I remembered how, in 1978, had I gone to the Toyota dealer before the Ford dealer I could have ended up with a Celica and not the II. I bet that would have made
some people happy.
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Fall of '78 I went to the dealer to check out the new mustangs. I was all excited because I heard there were vast improvements.
I asked where the new mustang was, they said right here ... damned thing is right in front of me. First thought was Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???? It can be had with a 302? What? A 260??
Lets say you've been looking at chocolate pudding for about a decade before being allowed to eat it, then you've been eating it for three or four years and darn, the stuff is pretty good. Then someone hands you a bowl of something they're calling chocolate pudding and it looks and smells like poop. Your not going to be too hot for a taste. Could even put you off your pudding for a while.
I walked out of the dealer and never cared to look back.
I guess Ford fixed their pudding around '84 or so, didn't look as bad, didn't smell as bad, they didn't fix it enough for me to want to take a taste.
When I first saw the '05 I started saving my pennies, I figure it may be time to take a taste.
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Sure, my Mustang is Pinto based. So what?
You don't want to bust on me for it.
From Wikipedia:
The Mercury Zephyr was a compact car sold by the Lincoln-Mercury division of Ford Motor Company in the North American market from 1978 to 1983. Along with its corporate cousin the Ford Fairmont, it was the first use of Ford's long-lived unibody Fox platform, which did not completely leave production until 2004.
Zephyr, taken from a poetic name for the west wind, .....
OOooooooo, the ZThhheffferrrr, the Foxeys blow from the west!
Not my thing but, hey, if thats what floats their boats let them have at it.