Articles

Seat Re-Seat

Brad Bowling

 et al.

Nothing makes an interior look nastier than stained, saggy, sticky, split, smelly seats. Yucksville. 

Power Window Fix

Tom Shaw

 et al.

Crank windows are so last millennium. Electric windows, once considered an extravagance, are now routine even in cheapie econo-boxes. Who can be bothered to hand-crank a window down when we’re so busy with chow, java, chat, text, GPS, and iPod? Oh, yeah, and driving.

The Marti Report

Kevin Marti

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As you see by the cover of this magazine, exciting things are in store for the reader. The feature car, a beautiful ’92 Bright Red GT Mustang convertible, sets the pace both for the era of the Fox-bodied Mustangs and the direction of FOX Mustang Magazine. Along with this great news comes our excitement of being able to offer Marti Reports for the ’79-’93 Mustang crowd. And this is no small crowd—there were more than two and a half million Mustangs built during this period. To put things in perspective, rival Camaro barely pulled two million units.

Pick of the Pack

Tom Shaw

 et al.

If you were stranded on a desert island with only one Mustang, which would it be? The question is always good to start the opinions flowing. But for Steve Freedland, the Fox-body is the one.

“I’ve owned many Mustangs over the years,” Steve says. “I’ve had SN-95s; I had the new Edge; I even had an ’03 Cobra. But for some reason I always go back to the Fox-body style.”

Factory Find

Tom Shaw

 et al.

Sometimes you search for years to find the right car, and sometimes the right car finds you. That’s how it worked for Joe and Linda Beutler. In May 1999, while visiting the K.A.R. Mustang showroom in Columbus, Ohio, they saw this spotless ’89 GT convertible.

Repaint or Revive?

Tom Shaw

 et al.

Sooner or later, just about every Mustang owner has to make a decision — keep the original paint job, or let it go and repaint. But how do you know when the original paint can be saved, and when it’s beyond hope?

Editorial

Tom Shaw

 et al.

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE.

You’ll notice the future has its own magazine dedicated to Fox Mustangs. And not some goofy, broken-down newsletter, but rather a very nice, deluxe magazine like you’d take home to Momma. I’m talking about an oversized, full-color magazine slammed full of high-powered feature cars, tech, restoration, and fix-up articles you can actually use, and realistic performance stories that don’t center around some 6-second, triple-turbo, 1,500hp, machined-from-billet monster motor.

I’ll never build, drive, or probably even see a 6-second, triple-turbo, 1,500hp, machined-from-billet monster motor, and I’ll bet you won’t either. So how about if we let other mags get geeked up over that stuff ? Fox Mustang Magazine will focus on more realistic stories that help make the Fox Mustangs in our driveways better cars right here in the real world.