It baffles me how cheap Fox Mustangs are. It really does. Not that it’s anything to complain about, it’s just that when a car becomes iconic for performance, has the ability to become damn near anything any owner wants and does it well, looks handsome, and carries one of the most weighted nameplates in the automotive world…well, you’d think that there would be a hefty price tag on the ride. Luckily, this is a Ford, not a Mopar product, and if you know where to look, you can find a screaming deal on a nice Fox. Since Lohnes has been in California suffering the effects of a Cali winter, I decided to let my bias against the Sunshine State slide one time and see what could be found…and did I ever find it.
Clean title, smogged, and ready to be driven…and the only knock the seller has against this clean 5.0 LX hatchback is that it’s dirty. This is why it pays to hunt across the country…around BangShift Mid-West, that car would be “mint” to the locals once you did some polishing up. So long as the engine started and the transmission found a gear when the shifter is moved into “drive”, that’s $2,700 good as gone. Lose a hundred or so cleaning and detailing, and a few bucks for detail items like new window switch plates, and we wouldn’t change anything else. You might not even have to blow all five grand of the Rough Start budget on this neat little three-door, and that’s the best feature of all. That is, if you can resist the temptation to modify…
Craigslist Link: 1989 Ford Mustang 5.0 LX hatchback
Can’t you guys write actual articles instead of just copy and pasting cl ads? That’s not a rare or unique car.
It’s rare and unique seeing a clean 5.0 at that price! Worth the money to buy and drive it home! Road trip!
Ditto..
It’s a belly button mustang.. it should be cheap as dirt
Thanks dummies for bringing this to everyone’s attention and driving the prices up. In your silly journalistic zeal to write something profound you have started the ball rolling. Pretty soon Fox bodies will cost the same as a clapped out 1969 Camaro.
Fox body mustangs are going to sky rocket in value. These were some of the fastest out of the box cars you could buy back in the late 80’s early 90’s. There are articles coming out left and right talking about how these cars will soon be collector’s, especially the untouched all original mint, under 100K mile finds. I just bought one.