I like them one of my best friends mom had a 1978 white with red stripes 302 4 speed Cobra.  She was a hot rodder too probably what got me and him both interested in Hot Rods the next car she got was a red 83 GT I remember it saying BOSS 302 on hood scoop. when it was sold  it got totaled and they bought it back and made it into a dragster.

Last edited by BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA (6/18/2025 2:16 PM)

My older brother had an orange a black stripe one that he came home from the service with.   He let me drive it out on a date one night.   I remember it running well and handling well. What I remember most was he had a CD player in it which he got in Germany, and that was pretty rare around these parts in the mid 80s.  Anyways he rolled it, then bought a Chebby Vega 4 cyl stick shift and I remember that POS being about ten times more fun to drive.

I like this one.

That was the first and second mustang I owned.  Both V8 cars and the second one was a Cobra II.  It was the first car I ever restored.  It got a built 289 with a solid lifter big cam and redid the body and paint.  I installed a 9" rear and a T5 trans.  I never lost a street race in that car.  It was super fast.  Shifted at 7,000.  At 7200 the T5 had trouble shifting. At one point I ran an 850 DP carb on it.  I actually smoked a big block Chevelle from a stop light with that set up.  I could miss second gear and still out run anyone I raced. Never had traction at the drag strip and could only run 14 flat but would do so at 114-116 mph. I still wish to build another one and for a long time I tried to track my old one down.  I was always told it was sitting in some barn. 

That 289 was the first engine I ever built and did all the port work on the heads myself.  Way before the old internet days.  That car was a blast to drive.   I'll have to see if I have pictures of it somewhere.

rpm wrote:

I like this one.

Yeah Farrah drove that one on Charlies Angels
 

I always like the Mustang II Fastback w/o all the aerodynamic body add-ons and paint graphics.
I especially liked Jack Roush’s 460 powered street racer.

MS wrote:

Temember the Hot Rod Magazine Monroe Shock custom?

 
There's an MII Monroe Mustang for sale on Facebook in one of the MII groups.  It's all original down to the paint and he's asking $35k.

I have never been a fan either, but those cars ultimately kept Ford from killing the model.  Had the Mustang II not been somewhat successful what happens in '79?  Does Ford revive the Mustang after some years of not producing one?  Does it even end up on the Fox platform?  There are so many ways this could have gone horribly, horribly wrong for the brand.  The Mustang II kept it alive until better days dawned once again.  I'll respect it for that if nothing else.  You can't really pick at the performance either; it was dead basically everywhere at that time.  

BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

rpm wrote:

I like this one.

Yeah Farrah drove that one on Charlies Angels
 

 
Drove what?

She wouldn’t look the quite as appealing sittin on a hood these days😢

BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

rpm wrote:

I like this one.

Yeah Farrah drove that one on Charlies Angels
 

Maybe it's the 'hood ornament'?!
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