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    7/12/2022 3:23 PM  #1

    Toploader
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    This Mustang needs a diet

    How in the world did the Executives at Ford agree to this?

    1964-1/2 D Code Coupe - 289 V8, 4 Speed Toploader, 3.00 ratio rear, Autolite 4100 Carb, 15" tires, Pertronix ignition
     

    7/12/2022 4:23 PM  #2

    Rufus68
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    Re: This Mustang needs a diet

    Think of it more as Mustang just being the brand and the car being a Mach-E.  I heard talk on Jay Leno once about Ford thinking of Mustang as a brand.

    1968 T-code Coupe with a 302.  Nice car, no show stopper for sure, but I like it.
     

    7/12/2022 5:44 PM  #3

    6sally6
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    Re: This Mustang needs a diet

    Typifies the youth of today?!
    Couch Potato gamerz?!
    Can't do/won't do anything requiring actual labor?
    'Tater Chips and Coke' Diet most of their life?
          (at  least most of us 'boomers' waited until we were  50+-ish (dat a word?) to get a belly and/or fat a$$)
    6sally6
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    7/12/2022 5:44 PM  #4

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    Re: This Mustang needs a diet

    Fortunately, there is a new generation Mustang just over the horizon.  One version is a hybrid - I think with lots of HP.  And the Camero is going away in a couple of years.

    Original owner - 351w,T-5, 4whl disks, power R&P
     

    7/12/2022 6:53 PM  #5

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    Re: This Mustang needs a diet

    You know, with all the electronics, drive by wire, and Nanny State possibilities that are in the new cars I'm really not looking like I'm ever going to be a customer for them.  So they can do what they want.  I'll use my car budget always reviving an older car that would have limited electronic controls (ABS is okay).

    If the distant future forces me into an electric car, I'll just cross that bridge then.
     

    1968 T-code Coupe with a 302.  Nice car, no show stopper for sure, but I like it.
     

    7/12/2022 8:52 PM  #6

    BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA
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    Re: This Mustang needs a diet

    so is that the only mustang they offer at Dealership??
     

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    7/12/2022 9:26 PM  #7

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    Re: This Mustang needs a diet

    BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

    so is that the only mustang they offer at Dealership??
     

    BILLY!!!!........you need to get out more!
    6sal6
     

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    7/12/2022 9:53 PM  #8

    BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA
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    Re: This Mustang needs a diet

    6sally6 wrote:

    BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

    so is that the only mustang they offer at Dealership??
     

    BILLY!!!!........you need to get out more!
    6sal6
     

    well I really have no desire to buy a new Mustang....personally I thought they quit making Mustang in like 1971 thats the last good looking model I saw.

     

    Its really me....I fixed my caps lock .
     

    7/13/2022 4:39 AM  #9

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    Re: This Mustang needs a diet

    Ford is a business, nothing more.  They will do whatever they think will make them the most money.  There are always real car guys that work there, but its often tough for them to get what they want built.  Honestly I have little to no interest in new cars.  Past the mid 2000s everything became unnecessarily complicated and disposable. 

    Last edited by TKOPerformance (7/13/2022 4:40 AM)

     

    7/13/2022 4:58 AM  #10

    RTM
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    Re: This Mustang needs a diet

    If they offered the Mach E with a gas engine I would buy one.  I like the looks but not that electric part of it. 

    I think is doing well by playing both ends of the game.  The mustang is dominating the factory cat drag races and ford developed the Godzilla motor which really appears to be a great motor with great HP potential.  Ford is doing a good job and I almost forgot they brought back the bronco too.

     

     

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