Used Car of the Day: 1988 Ford Mustang LX
Despite my bias as a former Fox-body owner and unabashed Fox-body fan, we don't post a ton of Fox-body Mustangs in this feature. We actually don't feature that many Mustangs in general, though we've had a few Bullitts and last week's drop-top Cobra. That's because used Mustangs, even the aging Fox bodies, are plentiful on the Interwebs.
Still, this one was clean enough to stop me in my proverbial tracks as I browsed the internal corporate database I use to pull these cars.
There are only 80,000 miles on this LX with a manual transmission. Our seller has had it for nearly 20 years and claims that it has made 400 horsepower on a dyno. There are, he or she says, a lot of modifications. Those would appear to include the camshaft, lifters, intake, rebuilt and ported heads, and the exhaust. It also has mass air flow.
That manual is a Tremec T5, but of course. The wheels and tires are new. Other upgrades include the alternator and cooling fan.
You can find this Fox in Minnesota for $22,000 and the mileage is just 80,000.
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[Images: Seller]
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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