Mustang II.

I walk into the dealership with pre-approved financing through my credit union and let them know that if they can beat that rate I’ll go through them, if not, I’m using my credit union. It’s about 50/50 as to who wins.

As an actual licensed state inspector in Texas, yeah, it does.

For the buyer, no, but there is no age clause in the law for the dealership.

$7200 is a little high with the salvage title, but I still went NP.

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As far as the state of Texas is concerned, that car couldn’t even pass a state inspection in a non-emissions county with that smog pump bypassed and no cats. The car has to have been built before 1984 to pass a state without cats.

Absolutely.

I was going to be NP... then I noticed the bypassed smog pump and no catalytic converters.

1974 Ford Mustang II not having a V8 option, and the 2-barrel 302 being the only V8 option for the other four model years.

The Capri I have now is the third my family has owned, I always thought that little map light was so cool, and all three had it.

Surprisingly easy. Fox body engine mounts nearly fit the Capri frame rails, and there is a company called Team Blitz that makes adapter plates for the original 2.8 mounts. The 302 in this car is currently sitting on a pair of Nissan mounts I found by going through every mount in stock at my local Advance Auto Parts…

1. Scarcity doesn’t mean shit if nobody wants it. If this was a Cadillac Cimarron, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

ND.

Anybody voting NP on this turd hasn’t worked on that piece of crap Ford/Jag V8.

This is pretty much SOP at dealerships these days. Whether it’s a whole camera system, or documentation of vehicle condition with an iPad, or video walkarounds by the technician (or in the case of the BMW dealership I worked at until last July, all of the above), they protect themselves these days.

Repeat after the BMW technician: “Old BMWs are ND at any price!”

Ford Mustang Mach III concept from the 1990s. It was functional, with a supercharged 4.6, and was such a radical departure from anything the Mustang had ever been (and other than the engine, and if you squint REALLY hard, a few styling cues) none of it found it’s way to a production Mustang.

The Renegade, and anything else Fiat-powered, for that matter, doesn’t belong on any list of suggestions where the buyer specifically asked for “reliable”.

I work for a dealership group that includes a VW store in my hometown. I formerly worked for another group with a VW dealership 22 miles away (I actually worked at the VW dealership). Both stores thrive because in spite of offering the same products, they serve different kinds of clients. One is minutes from a…