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- slashfan7964
I'll be honest, I used to be the biggest Mustang II hater...until I got in one my friend owns and got some up close experience with it. That changed everything. Yes, the car has a bit of body roll, but it makes the driving experience that much more immersive...it doesn't feel like it's going to keep going straight if you turn. The body leans into a turn much in the same way as you would lean into a sharp turn on a bicycle at speed. The car is also light so you don't really need a ton of power to go pretty quickly.
I'd argue that it was quicker than a 1970 Mach 1 with a 351C I rode in over the summer, and that car was running 0-60s of around 5 seconds flat, with a 1/8th at 9 seconds, which translates to a low 14 in the 1/4. That's what they ran stock in the '60s, if not a bit quicker (this engine was also a bit tired) and to say that an MII was running quicker with hardly nothing done to it is saying something. So how much truth is there to those 0-60s and 1/4 miles of the '70s really?
The front end would fly in the air and off we went...pealing out from the school parking lot. I will never forget all the people running up to the car, and the looks we got from people on the street was priceless. We even got a couple of "what is that?" from people...and I'm like yeah that's a Mustang haha. We stopped at a light, and a guy looked at us like what are a couple of teenagers doing in that?
This is his car.
I can understand how it somewhat looks like the Pinto, but it's very much it's own car, only sharing less than 10% of it's overall parts between the 2 platforms. Even Ford has stated this in there 50th anniversary video. Calling the MII a Pinto is like calling the 1st gen a Falcon...in fact, the first gen has more in common with the Falcon than the MII does with the Pinto.
The MII was sold as an I4, V6 and V8 car, same as the Foxes, except the MII had more body styles and options.
I'd argue that it was quicker than a 1970 Mach 1 with a 351C I rode in over the summer, and that car was running 0-60s of around 5 seconds flat, with a 1/8th at 9 seconds, which translates to a low 14 in the 1/4. That's what they ran stock in the '60s, if not a bit quicker (this engine was also a bit tired) and to say that an MII was running quicker with hardly nothing done to it is saying something. So how much truth is there to those 0-60s and 1/4 miles of the '70s really?
The front end would fly in the air and off we went...pealing out from the school parking lot. I will never forget all the people running up to the car, and the looks we got from people on the street was priceless. We even got a couple of "what is that?" from people...and I'm like yeah that's a Mustang haha. We stopped at a light, and a guy looked at us like what are a couple of teenagers doing in that?
This is his car.
I can understand how it somewhat looks like the Pinto, but it's very much it's own car, only sharing less than 10% of it's overall parts between the 2 platforms. Even Ford has stated this in there 50th anniversary video. Calling the MII a Pinto is like calling the 1st gen a Falcon...in fact, the first gen has more in common with the Falcon than the MII does with the Pinto.
The MII was sold as an I4, V6 and V8 car, same as the Foxes, except the MII had more body styles and options.
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