Soon after he got it into the mid 13’s, he was driving it to work one morning, and spun it out in the rain, and it was totalled, and he got banged up pretty good in the process. Of course other cars were sold during the time in question. I just bought a ’91 Mustang 5.0 H.0 Convertible last Sept FOR $6000. And most drivers over the age of 17 never did give a crap if the kid in the Capri II could beat his car. Many of the design enhancements engineered for the II made it into Pinto production in the interest of saving money. There hasn’t been a mass-market Mustang since.Dead on and equal to the very best of TTAC. It also stayed pretty rust free – quite a feat for the number of winters it saw.I still find the “gaudy” styling attractive as well, and I know it was no performance coupe, however fast it looked.Then again, there is always a special place in your heart for your first.Appropriate post on this AFD – a joke of a truly awful car (and even worse Mustang) if there ever was one. The smog pump crapped out so I just unbelted it. For 1978, the last year for second generation Mustangs, Ford offered the II in a V-8-only King Cobra performance package in an attempt to reinforce the Mustang’s high-performance roots. Historical context please.Although you personally don’t like the II, I have correctly identified some of the biggest misconceptions, and also tried to explain some of the reasoning behind the car.Hey, if you weren’t alive to see gas rationing in the early 70’s the II might seem like a horrible mistake. Unleaded and smog pumps took care of that.You had to move to Firebird (and get a 455) to go over 200 HP in ’75.The ’75 Mustang was just about par for the course back then.I’m not quite old enough to remember the Mustang II, but I did own an ’88 4-cylinder (88 hp, 1/4 mile in 19.7 @ 69mph while losing to a Tempo!) CAR. Ford should have spent money on its turbo-four program a few years earlier.

Interestingly, Camaro sales began their upward turn in 1974, the same year the Mustang II debuted.

There WERE rust issues and I freely admit that.

The tragedy is that these were a pretty good start towards what could have evolved into much better cars–but it’s hard to disagree with sales as being the single best indicator of how the Mustang II met the desires and expectations at the time. Popularity does not equal correctness or goodness, and not everyone wanted a Mustang II. Some folks had horrid experiences with quality and reliability. When the Maverick rusted out in a short 5 years, a Pacer, a Malibu Classic Brougham, a Chevrolet Impala all disappointed him, and when my mother insisted on a new Fiat 128 Spider convertible, he finally agreed to something sporty. The Capri was a fine enough car for the times, but there is NO WAY IN HELL the little furrin’ Capri would have been butch enough, ‘Amurican’ enough and could not be optioned out to be tacky enough of a car to satisfy the ‘testosterone fueled’ needs of approximately HALF of the Mustang’s target demographic (the other half being the chick car/secretary’s car crowd…still true to this day. It was technology falling behind government regulations. And at a price that put the Mustang II Mach I and Cobra II to infinite shame.

I drove by the remains several times post-flood before it was towed away, and each time thought, given the choice, I would have left the Mach I behind instead. Yes i’m still a Ford driver and much to my families dismay married a Chevy man who at that time was driving a big block Chevelle SS which would literally suck you to the seat .Going at (scary fast ) speeds that me and my Mustang II could only have dreamed of . He had the car until 1995, when his daughter took it to the store one night and the brakes failed, and she put it into a pole. Objectively there’s no doubt that nearly ALL American cars were overflowing with crapitude during this era, given what came both before and later, and what we now expect from even the humblest of cars. found on road dead !My first car was a 1967 Mustang convertible with a 289 and rust holes in the floor. Buy or Sell your mustang fast! (most publications show this 140hp to be correct, but who’s counting)… something surely must be wrong? Practically no one valued these cars then. So the Pinto actually became a much better car due to the II. Option it with leather, automatic trans, and the most expensive stereo, I’d argue it’s a more convincing luxury coupe than the (may she rest in peace) dead FWD Monte Carlo.The Mustang II can be laid at the feet of none other than Henry Ford II’s constant meddling with the car.

In 1973, the Mustang II had little competition from imports, european or asian; it’s competition for the most part came from Detroit, in the form of the Valiant/Dart twins, the Vega, the Nova and the Camaro.
I had a Toyota Corona, a Datsun B210 hatchback and a Mazda RX3. My father thought a “sporty” car was best represented by my mother’s 1970 Maverick. EVER. Though markets may move slowly, the decline of the D3 was set in stone on the 70s.

A scientist, Dad was pretty methodical and kept meticulous records. My Mustang II was my last non-collector domestic until I bought a Ford truck just a few years ago. They were, however, most definately NOT car people.By the mid-70s even the reluctant had swapped out of the Big3 in favor of Toyotas, Hondas, and Opels, and Capri IIs, and Fiestas, and Benzes, and… Yes, I lived in the Midworst at that time. Gradually, the Japanese car makers improved and updated their cars, eventually earning our trust. Yes, the Cobra and Mach I versions were silly.


Context is crucial.But that’s beside the point here. More telling are the base prices:Not arguing that the Camaro wasn’t a better deal (let alone a much better all-around car)…the price comparison between the 1975 models just does a better of driving home the point.


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