Got me a Mustang

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  1. joshua_mcgehee

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    1979 Fox body Cobra 1 of 190 according to the Marti. 302, 4 spd, Flip open sun roof. Will post pictures when I get the camera from the wife. Runs good, need to find out why it keeps popping out of gear when its in first?
     
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    Cool car. Lots of things you can do to them to have fun. You can upgrade the front brakes to the 87-93 stuff and still keep it 4 lug by changing out the spindle and brake assembly. That car also may have the smaller rear but the later fox 8.8 w/trac loc is a bolt in too.
     
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    whats the benifit of changing to the later style brakes?
     
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    Dave B I like Mavericks!

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    Pictures??? 79's are pretty scarce.
     
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    slightly larger rotor and caliper piston. The big upgrade would be to change it to 94-95 mustang spindles with 5 lug hubs. then you have a bunch of brake options and more wheel choices. I have both setups laying in my garage. I just swapped my 93 mustang to the later 5 lug stuff and got a couple extra 5 lug sets while I was at it because they are hard to find around here.
     
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    NICE! love it.. my first car back in 2006 was a 79 fox..was purple with a black hood scoop..302.
     
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    Jamie Miles the road warrior

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    I love the early 4 eye cars. I'm working on an '80 Capri RS myself to be a temporary daily driver replacement for my Maverick so I can pull it off the road and do some major work.

    A good site for these car is http://www.foureyedpride.com/
     
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    Computer wont let me post pictures, it keeps putting all my pictures in windows office pictures and not the photo gallery? I'm already part of the four eyed pride forum. Same user name.
     

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