Is this 1986 Ford Mustang GT for $14,000 a shrewd deal? – Jalopnik

Foxbody Mustangs, like today’s Nice Price or No Dice GT, have long offered some of the best pony car fun around. Nowadays, these types of standard models are becoming increasingly difficult to find. Let’s see if the price makes it worth buying.

The Wrigley Company was founded in 1891, but became best known for its ‘Doublemint’ chewing gum – claimed to have the double flavor – which it introduced in 1914. Beginning in 1959, the company launched an advertising campaign featuring real twins, called the “Doublemint Twins,” on TVs, in magazines and on billboards across the country. The first of these duos were Jayne and Joan Knoerzer, twin sisters from Hammond, Indiana. The Knoerzers, identical twins, were trying to start a singing career when they were drawn as bubble gum spoke twins. Wrigley leaned on their singing talents and had them record a jingle called “Double Your Pleasure,” which would become the brand’s theme and, more broadly, a somewhat tasteless double entendre.

Speaking of double what’s expected, that’s exactly what most of you considered the $14,500 asking price for the 2005 Audi TT 3.2 Quattro we looked at yesterday. Considering that theme in the comments, it’s no surprise that the vote ended in a stunning 80% “No Dice” loss.

Two additional notches on the Foxbody Mustang’s bedpost include the return to horsepower after a decade of emissions and fuel economy strangulation, and the model’s embrace by owners and the tuner community alike due to aftermarket mischief.

Today 1986 Mustang GT convertible is a model that sits right in the middle of the era’s performance renaissance and is commendably standard (more on that later), so it’s almost a blank canvas waiting for some new brushstrokes from the past four decades.

According to the ad, this GT has a modest 100K on the odometer and is in “completely straight and stock condition.” That’s not entirely the case, as it features a number of aftermarket wheels that mimic the design of the later SVT Cobra alloys, albeit in the old-fashioned four-lug fashion. Also striking is the absence of the factory luggage rack on the trunk lid. That makes the car’s appearance smoother and cleaner, but eliminates the CHMSL brake light, which was integrated into that element on the trunk. Other than these outliers, the car looks factory specific and is in very good condition, with sharp-looking paint, unfaded black accents and a sturdy-looking top with a nice glass rear window.

We don’t see under the hood in the photos of the ad, but it should be a familiar face. Since this is a 5.0 GT, that means it has a 302 CID Windsor V8. In this model year, the GT offered port fuel injection for a healthy 200 horsepower and 285 pound-feet of torque. Supporting it, as the gods intended, is a Borg-Warner five-speed manual transmission feeding an 8.8-inch live-axle rear axle. The brakes consist of discs up front and drums at the rear, and since this is a completely analogue car, there’s no ABS, traction control or any other sort of electronic nanny to lean on when things go south.

What do you think of this 80s icon and that asking price? Does that feel like a fair deal to get like 5.0 times? Or is this Mustang just too stale to ask for that much?

You decide!

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