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03-16-2018, 11:00 AM
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 This one is my dream Mustang in every way, including color. Likely, the closest I’ll come is a 1:18 scale diecast model that looks exactly like that.
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03-16-2018, 12:03 PM
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I are confused. The definition of coupe is a two door hard top. The Mustang has always been a coupe. In fact Mustang coupe seems redundant to me.
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03-16-2018, 12:13 PM
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When I met my wife she had a 69 Mach I with a 390 4 speed. It was a heavy tank and handled poorly. In a straight line it was fast for its day. Working on it was a pain too. I had to remove the valve covers to change the plugs. The big block made it nose heavy and the brakes back then were mediocre at best. Boy was it a good looking car though. (I had a 70 2dr 429 T-Bird at the time which also was a poor handling car.)
I also owned a 67 GTO 400 4 speed. As much as I like the old "muscle cars" and the nostalgia associated with them they really don't hold a candle to today's cars in terms of reliability, handling, and power. (I currently have a 69 El Camino but modernized it a bit with a LT1 Corvette engine.) My 16' Challenger is far faster, handles better, produces less emissions and gets close to 30 mpg on the highway. 
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03-16-2018, 12:32 PM
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03-16-2018, 03:00 PM
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1966 Coupe/Notchback:  1966 Fastback: 1967 Coupe/Notchback: 1967 Fastback:  1973 Coupe/Notchback:  1973 Fastback:  1977 Coupe/Notchback (yuck!):  1977 Fastback (not much better, these were DARK years for the Mustang!):  1989 Coupe/Notchback: 1989 Fastback/Hatchback:  1994 Coupe/notchback (no fastback offered, though this design blurs the lines between the two):  2004 Coupe/Notchback (no fastback offered, again blurring the distinction):  2014 fastback (no coupe offered):  The 2015-2017 Mustang Fastback (no coupe offered):  Hope this helps! Last edited by HodgdonExtreme; 03-16-2018 at 03:25 PM.
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03-16-2018, 03:22 PM
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Now for the bonus round:
Who can identify this body style???   Gawd, what a gorgeous, gorgeous automobile....  
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03-16-2018, 03:52 PM
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Great spread of Mustang pictures.
The original was beautiful from day 1. There was a period there where they were just plain awful but they've come full circle. The 1st ship load here in Australia a few years back were all sold before it arrived.... they even tested them as Police cars here. 
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03-16-2018, 09:23 PM
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As much as many GM folks consider the LS Series a modern iteration of the iconic small-block Chevy V8 dating to 1955, for us old Blue-Oval fans who attended the drags at the height of the mid''60s FX/Super Stock wars, the modular V8 is a latter-day rendition of the legendary 427 SOHC. In case you're not familiar, the "Cammer" (as it was commonly called) was developed to compete against the Mopar 426 Hemi on the NASCAR circuit; banned from oval-track competition it was quickly adopted by forward-looking drag racers, who would put it to use in everything from match-race Super Stock and Factory Experimental cars, to A/Gas Supercharged coupes, to nitro-burning first-generation doorslammer Funny Cars and Top Fuel dragsters. Unmatched in its day, the SOHC was/is a potent package even by today's standards; rated at 625 HP with dual quads on pump gas, factory-backed racers like Gas Ronda, Hubert Platt, and Don Nicholson were routinely able to extract well over 750 ponies - which, in a lightweight '65 fastback Mustang or alfered-wheelbase Falcon/Comet, had no problem nudging the nine-second bracket at ~140 MPH. Priced out of the street-muscle market (they were a $3000 option in 1967 - and Ford was losing money even at that price) they became a dominant force in the nitro ranks through the late-60's: Connie Kalitta would sweep the '67 NHRA/AHRA/NASCAR Winernationals "Triple Crown" in his Top Fueler, Jack Chrisman's Mercury Comet S/XS Funny Car would turn an unheard-of 7.60 at Indy later that year (a full half-second quicker than the nearest competitor), and Mickey Thompson would design the first "modern" narrow-frame Funny Car around a Cammer and a '69 Mustang body. FYI they're literally worth their (considerable) weight in gold these days - and such is their cult popularity that retrofit kits are available for the "mod motor" which duplicate the appearance of the '60s original - just the ticket for the resto-mod guys looking to clone a match-bash FX'er, but with modern reliability and 150+ pounds less weight on the front end... Those were the days... 
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03-17-2018, 01:35 PM
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The term, coupe, generally refers to 2-door car as opposed to a sedan which has 4 doors. Therefore, a fastback Mustang is a coupe. That is not to say that the term is misused to such an extent that one can be forgiven for being uncertain as to its definition.
coupe1 | ko͞op | (also coupé | ko͞oˈpā | ) noun 1 a car with a fixed roof and two doors. 2 historical a four-wheeled enclosed carriage for two passengers and a driver. 3 an end compartment in a railroad car, with seats on only one side.
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