Fox-Body Ford Mustangs: Why We Love Them
There are few cars greater than the sum of their parts than the Fox-body Mustang …
Fox Mustang prices have been moving steadily upward for a few years now, especially for low-mile, unmolested examples–fortunately even scruffy, heavily modded examples can be great fun, and those are still relatively inexpensive. Whichever floats your boat, they’re all very easy to work on, cheap to keep, and thanks to massive aftermarket support, straightforward and rewarding to modify to your exact taste.
Manufactured in the hundreds of thousands over a 14-year-long production run starting in 1979, the third-gen Mustang was built atop FoMoCo’s then-new Fox unibody platform, itself originally developed for the Ford Fairmont/Mercury Zephyr twins …
