Does a Fox Mustang qualify as a “regular car”? That’s a strange question to ask, but it is an honest one. The 1979-1993 Ford Mustang (and it’s upscale and slightly less-loved twin, the Mercury Capri) have many things going for them: they are light little cars that have one of the largest aftermarket followings out there, they were produced by the millions with more than plenty still roaming roadways (and even more hiding in the weeds, waiting to be rescued), they can be anything from a fuel-sipping four-banger, two-door notchback to the fire-breathing 5.0 hatchback that “that guy” in high school, wherever he was at, owned at one time or another. And yet, for all of those positives, the Fox Mustang has negative traits too: besides “those guys”, you can check off body flex, questionable early engines, relatively low power, typical 1980s build quality, handling that might actually put an icy spike of fear into your spine, and twenty-three years after the last Fox rolled off of the lines, the daunting task of refurbishing and restoring one to a useable specification. But is it worth it? Go to any NMRA meet…hell, go to any event, period, and see just how many Fox-Body Mustangs you’ll see parked in the fields, sitting in the staging lanes, and in the parking lots. You can’t say that with any other member of Ford’s Fox family of cars. When was the last time you saw a loved and driven 1982 Granada?

Click play below and let Mr. Regular talk you through his opinion of these two late-Foxes: the white 1987 is a 5.0, and the teal 1993 is a 2.3L four-banger. Meanwhile, I’ll be in the garage, spinning wrenches on a Fox of my own…