10th Jul 2010, 13:49
You must live in an area that people drive old beater cars around a lot if you are still seeing 4 cylinder Fox Mustangs running around regularly. Here there are virtually none left, and all I ever see are 5.0's nowadays. The easiest way to tell the 5.0 LX from the 4 cylinder is the polished pipes coming out the rear, and the wider tires and stance the 5.0 has. Even when they started putting the 10 hole mags on the 4 cylinder in '91, they put 205 series tires on them and they were easy to spot as 4 cylinder cars. The "5.0" on the fender was added to a lot of the 4 cylinder cars by wannabes, so that is not always a sure sign. Of course they should have put "0.5" instead since they only had half an engine!
Look on Ebay and put in any particular year of the Foxbody and count how many 4 cylinder cars are up compared to 5.0's Usually it is NONE. There are a lot of 5.0's there though, and there always is.
As far as a completely original 4 cylinder at a show... what a waste of time that would be and I'd be pretty disappointed in going to a show like that. Was there a Fairmont next to the 4 cylinder Mustang? How about an Escort? That would be about as exciting as a base Mustang to me!
10th Jul 2010, 11:16
Same here. There was a mint Fox 4 convertible at the last show I attended, as well as a rare 1983 6 Convertible. There are far more Fox 4's around here, simply because so many more were built and sold.