Mustang II

[PC]

Man, it's been a long time since I've seen one of these in the wild.

This one was a white, notch-back and perfectly straight with no obvious damage. Even rarer as the very few others I've seen over the last decade have been really beat.

As reviled as it was among the Mustang faithful, Ford actually actually sold a boatload of them. It helped keep them afloat through the dark times and kept the Mustang moniker alive until the Fox bodies arrived.

And the modular independent front ends with rack and pinion steering scavenged from them made many a hot rod sort of driveable.

 

[AngliaGT]

I was looking through the Medford & Roseburg,Oregon craigslists,
& found 3-4 of those for sale.

 

[GTP1960]

I had a white M-II back in '74.

bought it new, stripped down for about $2200.00 (which to me, at the time, was the equivalent of the national debt).
It was unremarkable in every way, but it got me through college years, traveling across TX many many times.

 

[3798j]

Thinking that the two most remarkable Mustang II's were the ones driven by Charlie's Angels.

 

[JPSmit]

A friend and I got my first speeding ticket in it driving as designated driver. To this day I believe I was given it wrongly. The muffler had blown and was very loud - I would have known I was speeding, it wasn't my car and it was just an area where the secondary highway passed close to the main highway - I am sure he got a radar reading from that. sigh.

 

[GTP1960]

Thinking that the two most remarkable Mustang II's were the ones driven by Charlie's Angels.

for some reason I never even noticed the cars.

 

[JPSmit]

for some reason I never even noticed the cars.

Cars what cars?

 

[LarryK]

I bought a new 74 Mustang Mach 1, no A/C, radio delete with the 2.8 V-6, 4-speed, with 3:55 locker, for $3200. After replacing the plastic timing gear and eliminating the decal valve, along with timing and ignition upgrades, it would rev to 7500 rpm with ease. Added gauges where the A/C vents would have been. Never did get headers, ran good enough not to be a slouch. Drove for 2 yrs. and traded in on a Ranchero. Almost bought a messed up 78 Cobra, just to set up for Solo. Parts are easy, but now front suspension assemblies are a hot item for rods.

 

[SaxMan]

In the post 1973 oil-embargo days , these were a hot commodity. It was Ford's good fortune to have brought out these lighter and more fuel efficient cars at the exact right time when gas prices took their first spike. They may have been unremarkable, but so was just about everything else Detroit produced during that time.

OTOH, my father bought a Buick LeSabre only a couple of weeks before the embargo. He likened it to buying stock at the beginning of October 1929.