Content about Issue #2

June 18, 2012
Automatic to Manual Pedal Conversion

 

To convert from an AOD to a five-speed, you’ll need infrastructure in the form of a brake/clutch pedal assembly for it all to work together. You can approach this change a couple of ways. You can swap in just the clutch pedal and safety switch, or you can change out the entire pedal assembly with one from a donor car. Both involve some work, but both can be done in your garage without special tools.

June 18, 2012
Dragon Chaser

 

Riding a wingspan roughly as wide as a 10-story building is high, the U-2 pilot, insulated in a full pressurized flight suit and astronaut-like helmet, grips the stick and makes a final check on his alignment with the runway. The Lockheed spyplane is in the final seconds of a long, high-altitude recon mission overflying volatile hotspots to see what the bad guys have been up to lately.

June 15, 2012
10-Hole Transformation

 

As with vintage muscle cars, for many 5.0-powered Fox Mustangs the factory wheels were often the first things to go. Why run a set of 15x7-inch 10-holes or turbines when you could spring for a set of 16-inch ponies, Weld Draglites, or 17-inch Cobra Rs? And as for five-lug conversions — well, you can say goodbye to your four-bolt factory rims forever.

As a result, for many years, turbines and 10-holes were sold, junked, or dumped in the back of the garage with the pile of other unwanted parts.

June 15, 2012
Factory original as it left the factory

 

I’ve been an enthusiast of ’79-’93 Mustangs long before they were called Fox-bodies. Back in the early days (the ’80s) they were referred to as third-generation Mustangs.

My first Mustang was an ’82 GT 5.0 four-speed. That car gave me such a thrill. It was lightweight and fun to drive. I had never felt that kind of power. I could be in First gear and nail it, and the car would start burning until I hit Second gear. Then it would chirp going into Third.

June 7, 2012
Blue-Flame Hot!

 

June 7, 2012
The Marti Report

 

Funny thing about the 70’s — they weren’t very funny, exceptSaturday Night Live (yeah, that show used to be funny!). So much was in disarray, and the auto industry was no exception. The oil crisis of 1973 had messed up the comfort zone of the Big Four (the carnage was going to reduce that to the Big Three and eventually make even that term irrelevant).

January 26, 2012
Power Window Fix

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.

January 26, 2012
The Marti Report

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.