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.

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