The Mustang spent the last 15 years tucked
away indoors, safe from UV rays, fleeing felons,
gravel haulers, texting teenagers, tipsy barflies,
and the like.
In 2006 Ron decided it was time to reintroduce
the Mustang to the world.
“I dug it out of the garage and took it to Maple
Grove Raceway to show it at the Ford Nationals,”
he says. “The car ended up winning Best in Class.
However, there didn’t seem to be a big interest in
stock Fox-bodies at the time.”
That was changing, too. Momentum for that
generation of Mustang was on the increase.
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Ron learned of the upcoming FOX Mustang
Magazine, and soon after, he found another Fox
Mustang lifeline.
“Sometime over last winter,” Ron recalls, “I
found the website www.foureyepride.com and
was delighted to see there was a following of
old Fox-bodies.” Terry McCoy, prominent Fox
researcher, historian, and all-around cheerleader,
contacted Ron through the website and got him
revved up about his car all over again.
The fuel pump had expired, and the battery,
of course, needed replacement, but other than
a few common service items, Ron’s Mustang
remains in amazing, time-capsule condition.
Kevin Marti tells us that while the everpopular red convertibles with manual
transmissions were built in fairly low volume
on early Mustangs, we learned that we liked that
option package and ordered red convertibles
with standard transmissions in higher numbers
on Fox Mustangs. So they may not be quite as
much of a rarity as on the ’60s Mustangs. But a
low-mile cream puff like this one with only 8,748
on the dial at our photo shoot, loaded with a file
full of paperwork? That’s something special any
day of the week.