for 9 grand you should be able to find a high mileage 00-01, but if I were you id go with low mileage 99

 

Its like cancer, no cure and it cant be stoped f/ spreading

 

Are you limited to Mustangs? What's your goal with the car? Bang for your buck performance or just a cruiser to have fun with??

If you are looking for true bang for your buck, don't shy away from F-body cars. 98-02 LS1's are getting cheaper by the day. for $11,000 you could find yourself a 40/50/60,000 mile LS1 and have yourself one hell of a car stock.

But if you insist on a Mustang and want to go fast, you should consider a $3-6,000 dollar 96-98 Mustang and spend a ton of cash on the engine. You are behind the ball big time with any Mustang minus Cobra/Mach 1. Full exhaust + Gears will get you into the territory of stock Mach 1's & non s/c Cobra's, but you'll need a supercharger from there to see any more significant gains.

 

Talk about bringing back a thread from the dead! Anyways....

I found a Mustang in St. Louis not too far from here I am going to look at on Saturday. I am VERY likely going to buy it;

1999 GT Coupe, Blue, 66000 miles, cloth interior. 100% Stock.

I'm excited! The first things I plan to do to it are probably add the newer GT hood scoops and side vents, or find something that's functional.

Now that I will have a car, I can pop open the hood and put my CAD experience to the test, and maybe make some of my own parts!

 

Yeah man I got a 2000gt and i definately wanna add the newer side scoops, but for the hood I want something functional. thinking about a small cervani cowl or an 03/04 cobra hood or the Cobra R hood. Also you should definately look into doing the newer headlights (the ones with black inside instead of chrome) i juts did it along with chinspoiler and grill delete, car looks 100times better now.

 

Just get the Mach 1 Ram-Air kit.

 

if you're in new england, bargainnews.com is very cheap..


but you're not in new england, ebcause you're near st louis [:-]

but yeah, 99-02 mustangs should be within your price range.. or older cobras...

i can tell you, personally, though, that if i could go back in time a year (when i bought my 02 gt) i would have got something different.. either a 98-00 trans am with low mileage, a 92/93 trans am (and with the left over money done a lot of mods), a 5.0 fox mustang (and a lot of mods with the extra money), or i would have just got a little piece of crap car and saved my money, invested it in a few stocks / bonds / cds, and waited for the new challenger or a new cobra...

it's not that i don't like my 02 gt, i love it.. but it's too slow, and way too expensive to make fast. seems like a money pit to invest money into it, with very little return in 'fun factor'

 

They aren't THAT slow. That's why I considered one in the first place! [sm=outcold.gif]

Here's a picture of the 'stang...If I like it enough, I might just drive it back home this weekend...


- Glen