Do you have any sentimental value attached with your classic Mustang? Sometimes this value is priceless and many people go to great lengths to restore a "plain Jane" car that would probably not get restored otherwise.
My '68 2+2 has plenty of sentimental value because it's my first car with many fond memories. I'm sure there will be similar responses or others who have a Mustang that was passed down to them from a family member.
my 65 was my first car, when i first got it it was rusted blue, with dents and dings, a supposed to be straight six t code. had a 302 with a c4 at the time, i was so excited when my mom told me, on the way some where i didnt know, that she had a surprise for me. she told me, i got u a car, a mustang. when i seen it i was in aw, turned it over, and vroom smoke and all, i couldnt help but think tho, i wish it was stick (5 years later it would be). always wanted a fastback too. but when i finally got the opportunity to purchase one, i couldnt help but think after all the blood, sweat, and tears. the dumb break downs, late night repairs, the street races won and lost, the black smoke it used to spew out. a new car couldnt replace that, nor a fastback.
my car is my first true love, she never lets me down, if shes sick, i fix her up, she doesnt mind other females, and will be there waiting no matter what.
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65 stang (t code) 351c, t-5, 8" daily driver :)
87 fox lx 5.0, t-5, 8.8, on the drive way, gettin her back on the streets soon :D
its a damn fighter jet not a pony,
and we are fighter pilots.
First On Race Day ok, not that retarded gm mopar lame saying
Now I've had a few mustangs, like my very first car, the 71' Mach 1 COUPE aka spring sport coupe (rarest of the rare only year made) that I could get flintstones style with my feet going all the way through the floorboards, but I ended up trading it to a guy for a pristine and low-mileage 95 4.6 litre t-bird. Less than a month later I ran a stoplight and ended up wrecking in the ditch to avoid hitting another car turning left in the opposing lane, but thank god for it though considering the same accident would have straight up killed me in the mustang. Picked up an 87 GT that looked alright, but it kinda smelled bad then come to find out the previous owner had been in prison and the car sat for a number of years in a field and field mice had made burrows out of the foam in the back seats and chewed up the wiring. Wonderful smell to boot the moment I took that backseat out lol, so I got rid of that stinky ass car and eventually picked up the 88 GT 5 spd I have now. However out of all those mustangs the one that means the most to me is one I've never owned. My ex-girlfriends dad is the local mustang club president around here and currently still owns the 1984 GT 350 that not only carried me through high school, but literally deprived me of my innocence and my virginity! I even pulled up to the DMV to get my drivers license in that car! Fortune smiles on me these days though, he's suppose to sell it to me as soon as tax returns come. Woo!
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Mostly stock 88 GT 5.0 5-spd with big block dreams on my mind. = )
"Never before in the history of the United States Navy has a Navy Board of Inquiry ignored the testimony of American military eyewitnesses and taken on faith the word of their attackers."
--Dr. Richard Kiepfer, Capt. USN ret. and USS Liberty survivor
This 67 coupe Sprintime yellow with the Deluxe interior was my wifes father's first car,it was his graduation present. When he went into the military, his sister drove it and wrecked it. some idiot patched it up and painted her some off yellow It sat in her dad's garage until he got diagnosed with stage four cancer, and his other daughter got it and tried to fix it up so her dad could take one last ride in her... But, he died before he got a chance to. She wanted to buy it from my wife and when she refused to sell her interest in it, she parked in a feild. We went and rescued her and are in the middle of restoring her. We were bringing home on a float and some guy offered her $10,000.00 for her and my wife said they could have it when they pried the keys from her cold dead hands! As I got it running, I could just see my wifes eyes light up! When she took it for it's first spin around the neighborhood she was brought to tears. She said her and her father were not real close and that car was the only thing they had together and she learned some things about him after he passed and he was a diffrent person than she got to see. So I am going to do it right to honor her father. We are going to put it back original to start, then after a few years we will have some fun with some Ford blue racing stripes from the hood cowls to the rear end and take off the vinyl top. But in a long answer to your qusetion, yes cars are a link to our past and our good memories of the time spent with our love ones. This car will stay in our family for decades to come If I have my way. KH
Literally waited 10 years for my '65 fastback. I was 8 years old when I first spotted it. When I turned 18 the previous owner called me (my dad worked with him). He needed room for his boat and sold me the car. It was the first car I completely bought with no help. I patched it up and drove it my senior year in high school.
Had many high school memories in that car (some x rated) Now 22 years later, I still have her to make more memories with my kids!!
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"yeah though I walk through the valley of the shadow of rice, I will fear no turbo for torque art with me. Thy rods and thy crankshaft, they comfort me."
I got my '67 Coupe ~2yrs. ago and had a year and half of driving around with my 8yr. old daughter and the dog hanging out the back window as often as possible. She's now almost 11 and I hope to have the car back on the road this year to make more memories. I hope to have the car when she goes to high school, I drop her off in it at elementary school when it's running. All the boys just gawk...makes her feel special.
Jon
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'67 Coupe 289 C4, Candyapple red w/red deluxe int., PS, ext. decor group, light group, foxbody seats.
Next to install> stroked 333, AOD, 9" w/3.50:1, PDB.
'09 Black Warriors In Pink with glass roof - the wifes Mustang.
"If it ain't broke, I haven't fixed it yet" -Jon
My sentimental memories haven't happened yet. But with the plans for this car it already has plenty of sentimental value. My father-in-law is financing the complete restoration of a 65 coupe for my son...my 19-month-old son. So until he takes possession of it it'll be mine. I'm sure plenty of great memories are ahead of us...and my son WILL NOT get this car until he's out of college. I lived through high school and college and I don't believe that kids that age are capable of giving cars like this one the respect that they need and deserve.
There is one Mustang I have always wanted and I know if I get one I will never sell it. 1965 Rangoo Red Convertible with Red Interior and a white top. I will get one some day.
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Mike
I've had 60 cars....most of them Mustangs :-)
My sentimental memories haven't happened yet. But with the plans for this car it already has plenty of sentimental value. My father-in-law is financing the complete restoration of a 65 coupe for my son...my 19-month-old son. So until he takes possession of it it'll be mine. I'm sure plenty of great memories are ahead of us...and my son WILL NOT get this car until he's out of college. I lived through high school and college and I don't believe that kids that age are capable of giving cars like this one the respect that they need and deserve.
hahaha, i got mine when i was 16, my pops fixed it a lil, to the point that it ran some what fine, moms told me if id graduate with good grades from HS that shed get it painted, but from their, all my money ever made, went straight to the stang. i did abuse it, drived a lil crazy, tons of burn outs, but once i started doing more and more work on it my self. i learned to appreciate it more, their where times when i said, it aint my car, pops wont let me build it the way i want, hed say, why am i gonna let u f this car up, not any more, fonzo aint a stupid kid with wild ideas like he thought i was, now theyre reality, i finally got him to sign it over to me today, hed always tell me and my mother its a bad idea, ur gonna get pulled over and the cops gonna take it away from u, i guess he thinks im doing donuts on the intersection or something hahaha. u wont appreciate something until uve worked hard on it ur self, then u learn that messing something up, to end of fixing it later is a b!tch. i drive alot more calm now, i know my 8" wont last if i race it, or do burn outs, or hard launches. so i gotta drive calm now, most of the time
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65 stang (t code) 351c, t-5, 8" daily driver :)
87 fox lx 5.0, t-5, 8.8, on the drive way, gettin her back on the streets soon :D
its a damn fighter jet not a pony,
and we are fighter pilots.
First On Race Day ok, not that retarded gm mopar lame saying
I would pay for a full resto on my first car. He is my wonderful little 6 cylinder, automatic trans 1966 Coupe, in other words, the lowest of the Mustangs on the scale of what Mustang people want. But you know what? I don't care! I love my Oliver. All the work is mine. I'm the only one who drives him. Yes he has broken down in the past, but I will always fix him up again. I refuse to get rid of him, no matter what. It's actually kind of funny. My mum didn't like him at first, but now she loves him. She used to complain that me and my dad went out for toilet paper, and came back with the title to him.
My parents got my 66 in November 65 from a dealer in north Denver and gave it to me on my 16th birthday in 1972. It was a mess - no hood, broken drivers seat, badly slipping C4 and bald tires. I spent all my hard earned money to get it running. I drove the car daily for the next 16 years covering 3 states (CO, FL and NY). I then moth-balled it in 1988 with an occassional drive around the neighborhood in AZ - when I could get it started. In about 2000 it quit starting altogether and there it sat until 2007 when I finally started a complete restoration. Almost sold it half-dozen times over the years and I'm sure glad no one ever made me a fair offer Now it gets nothing but pampered cruises on the weekends and an occasional car show. It'll be my son's some day when I'm pushing up daisies
I like all the good stories!
I guess I have a few stages of sentimental memories. In true Mustang tradition mine started with a 62 Granny White light blue interior 2door FALCON because that's all I could afford. Friend of my brother flipped his 71 Maverick Grabber oh....7 times so we installed the 302 and 4spd into my little granny car. SHE WAS FAST!!! Had a really cool Stang 67 with an AER built 400 hp 302. This was my second Stang....and second love some 20 years later. But all those years and still today my fav's are 70 and 69 fastbacks and pretty much any convertible!!!
Now I have that convertible and still have to pinch myself to make sure it's true. I worked my hinny off to afford that thing cuz the guy I bought it from had sentimental memories due to it being his dad's car........so i can tell you how much sentimental COST ...lol!
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"After all ......looks ARE important"
1967 Diamond Blue Convertible
all original
Wifey's '67 Coupe Black, GT/CS Clone
I got my '67 Coupe ~2yrs. ago and had a year and half of driving around with my 8yr. old daughter and the dog hanging out the back window as often as possible. She's now almost 11 and I hope to have the car back on the road this year to make more memories. I hope to have the car when she goes to high school, I drop her off in it at elementary school when it's running. All the boys just gawk...makes her feel special.
Jon
I hear ya Jonk! My kiddo thinks it's cool but says the kids are all over her when she gets out of the car.....kids and teachers alike...wow that's your dads car?????
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"After all ......looks ARE important"
1967 Diamond Blue Convertible
all original
Wifey's '67 Coupe Black, GT/CS Clone
I bought my 66 c-code coupe in 1995 when I was in the Navy stationed in Hawaii in 1995. I bought it from my Commanding Officer (who was a truly inspirational Naval Officer) and the car had been in his family since '71. It was the first car that he and his wife had bought and he had hounded me for 6 months to buy it from him as he wanted it to go to someone he knew would take care of it. As I was driving away he and his wife were tearing up.
Strapped in to a car seat was my oldest son who was 6-months old. I now have 3 children and all of them enjoy helping out with the car.
So for me, while my car is certainly nothing special production-wise, it has tremendous sentimental value. So when I get stopped around town and asked how much I would take for my car, my response has always been the same...."its not for sale".
I got my 66 for my 17th birthday in 1971, and she has been with me ever since.
I drove her thru high school and a few years after, lots of cruisin, drive in movies, even a no brakes drive down a mountain pass.
She sat idle a few years, half resurrected when I needed a car and not much money, sat a few more years and finally I started restoring her.
289 2v
4 speed
Wimbledon White
Maroon interior
I'm not really restoring as much as making her as I would have back in the day if I'd had the time and money.
So far I have her done mechanically, and hope to get paint and body done this winter, interior next spring then it's cruise time again.
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Mustang sentimental value??? 
It sat in her dad's garage until he got diagnosed with stage four cancer, and his other daughter got it and tried to fix it up so her dad could take one last ride in her... But, he died before he got a chance to. She wanted to buy it from my wife and when she refused to sell her interest in it, she parked in a feild. We went and rescued her and are in the middle of restoring her. We were bringing home on a float and some guy offered her $10,000.00 for her and my wife said they could have it when they pried the keys from her cold dead hands! As I got it running, I could just see my wifes eyes light up! When she took it for it's first spin around the neighborhood she was brought to tears. She said her and her father were not real close and that car was the only thing they had together and she learned some things about him after he passed and he was a diffrent person than she got to see. So I am going to do it right to honor her father. We are going to put it back original to start, then after a few years we will have some fun with some Ford blue racing stripes from the hood cowls to the rear end and take off the vinyl top. But in a long answer to your qusetion, yes cars are a link to our past and our good memories of the time spent with our love ones. This car will stay in our family for decades to come If I have my way. 
Now it gets nothing but pampered cruises on the weekends and an occasional car show. It'll be my son's some day when I'm pushing up daisies
