[victorlanda]

I've seen this thread in other forums, maybe we can share our experiences with family members, other mustang owners, strangers. that had said something offensive to us regarding our mustangs.
i have a jeep cherokee as a Daily Drive and other jeep owners have said to me
"That's not a real jeep"
but that belongs to cherokee forum....

what not to say to a mustang II owner...

"That's not a real mustang" some random guy at the parts store:cursing:
"It's a mustang II why bother?" a cousin:madas:
"Did that thing came with a v8?" a guy at school

 

[1978CobraII]

"It's just a pinto." My response, "The 1st gen is just a falcon." "Called the 2.3 a briggs and straton." Half these people don't understand that anything past the 1st gen wouldn't be around were it not for our under powered fuel misers.

 

[Mustangjake78]

Brother inlaw says I don't think you should put money into that car it look like a pinto. I tell him I the money I have let after buying a little cheaper tools. For instance I paid $75 for a table saw he paid $1000. But I should not put money into my car!! A thousand dollar table saw better make me coffee and read the paper to me!

 

[1978CobraII]

A thousand dollars? My grandfather was a woodworker and he didn't have a 1000 dollar table saw.

 

[Mustangjake78]

All of his tools have to be the best. So he all the best tools that he doesn't use that much. I have decent tools that I use all the time on my project car a 78 Mustang II. Seems ok to me.

 

[Pockets]

as ugly as they are they're still mustangs and they allowed the mustang to survive as the nova, the chevelle, the charger, the roadrunner, the dart, the barracuda, and the challenger all went the way of the dodo

 

[b_chandler]

Call it a Mustang "Too".

MY favorite Mustang too story involves one of my best friends who had a '78 Coupe (Ghia right??). Back in '88 or '89 He ordered some of the trick front suspension pieces. The guy behind the counter asks "Whatcha building?" My buddy says, "a Mustang II" The counter guy just had this blank look. I think Fuzz might have been the first guy to ever buy aftermarket Mustang II suspension parts and actually put them on a Mustang II. :winks:cooldude:

 

[TexasEd]

I remember Mustang IIs being used as drag cars. I figure any that are still on the road today have been modded to some extent and are probably sleepers.

 

[1978CobraII]

I've had 3 drag two's on my local CL.

 

[TZZ023]

When I was 16 I had to buy my own car. It had to be cheap and fuel efficient. I found my 75 for $500 and never looked back. It's funny how the very things that made it possible for me to own a Mustang make it undesireable to some. I'm now in my early 40's and still have my Mustang (about to finish a new re-build of my 75 ghia with a heavily modified 302). When they are done right, they are still beautiful machines to me. Don't tell me my Mustang isn't a Mustang - it's as great a muscle car as any out there.

 

[mountainfords]

I like em too!

A mustang just like any other only lineage goes back to the pinto instead of the falcon. I still want a cobra II. Or make my own from a well used hatch. Laters.

 

[USNRET8505]

Kudos to everyone for standing up for the II. When I was a kid I drove a Pinto and a Mustang II. They may have been the same lineage but to me the II seemed much lighter and more sporty in the feel. They are beautiful cars when they have been restored with either the 4 cylinder or the V8.

Jeff

 

[fordaholic]

Yeah I get guys telling me "its just a pinto" or "the only good part is the front suspension"

Granted it came in the era of no horsepower and right after the era of huge cars with big blocks. It shares less than 10% of the parts with a pinto.

I love my Cobra II and the best part about it is that I'm the only one at the track with one!

Mustang II :thumbup:

 

[dragorphan]

I had a 20 somthing puke driving a late model v6 camaro at the drags last nite call my II every thing in the book. I did not give him the satisfaction of a responce. I just walked up to the guy pulling us from the lanes and asked if I could run the guy behind me. He said sure. This was my first pass ever on this car It went 12.37 with a 1.92 60ft she spun pretty hard. Needless to say he was very quiet in the pits but all of his buddies were laughing pretty loud.:bigthumbsup

 

[75OrigOwner]

Bought my 75 Mustang II new when I was a teenager. Still my best friend after 36 years. Lot's of memories with it!

Local Mustang Club really embraced it. The veteran Mustang owners appreciate the TLC necessary to keep a II going. Many of them pull me aside to say they once had one too. I feel right at home in our Mustang Club.

 

[J. Rhapsody]

Nice Vega! LOL!

 

[snellen benny]

You know, I feel the same but you guyes would say, thats not the same, have a 71 mustang, i someone finds out i have a mustang, they always want to know witch buildyear it is, and if the hear its a 71, the pull up there nose, if it isn't a 60's its no good no mather the hp ore the look (some say to me the 71-73 look like a 69 camaro and that s a pritty poular c

 

[snellen benny]

You know, I feel the same but you guyes would say, thats not the same, have a 71 mustang, i someone finds out i have a mustang, they always want to know witch buildyear it is, and if the hear its a 71, the pull up there nose, if it isn't a 60's its no good no mather the hp ore the look (some say to me the 71-73 look like a 69 camaro and that s a pritty poular c

(presset enter by accident sorry) popular car in the chevy scene, so, it might look great, have te hp, the only ones who says a II isn't a mustang are the guyes who own a 60's mustang
U bay what you want to bay

I know a guy who know's nothing about mustangs, but he wanted one, bought himeself a 75 2.8 II becouse he wanted to, whitout compairing the different years

gang in there guyes!!

 

[cobrakid1968]

You know I had a black and gold '78 back in the late 80's and I was the fastest kid around for a while.

Now with my '77, I put it on facebook last year when I bought it and people were like, "what are you gonna do with that?" I need something to do to help me with my stress. Now I show them the engine and the stereo equipment and cool things their cars don't even have and they go, "wow".

It's going to take me a ot longer to do all of this now because my wife said I spent way too much time with my car than I did her. So now we will be having our 2nd child in February of 2002. Guess I didn't spend as much time with the Cobra II as she said I did :nono:

 

[cobraiiman]

No one can be more devoted to the mustang II than I. If you have chance, please check out my brief story on the thread "come about owning a mustng ii" on this site. This is a car since i was a kid...sounds typical, but very, very true. By the way, Hi, to everyone on here. I am a new guy.