The "What Do you drive?" thread....

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by Username1

Anyway, the mach 1's in that photo were even worse visibility than the coup'e which I had. Brother had a mach 1 and that back window looked only about 2" tall..... didn't even fill the visible area of the inside rear view mirror..... But they were the coolest looking of all the mustangs IMAO, and very very fun to drive, great first cars !

Agreed on the Mach 1's appearance. Somehow the Grande just doesn't look right to me.

[Username1]

Originally Posted by KV-1926R

Agreed on the Mach 1's appearance. Somehow the Grande just doesn't look right to me.

My '73 was a Grande' Original red with black roof, I thought a great color combo. Second best was the '78's Midnight Blue with Chamois vinyl roof and interior colors. The mustangs, thunderbirds, and whatever else had it back then....

The Grande' was the EX version, cloth center to the seats, bunch-a other stuff, probably Power Brakes, and A/C, 351C, had the FMX transmission, some people didn't like it, I had no problems with it, I think my brothers mach 1 had it too... It only lived to be 143K miles, (rust killed it) engine rebuild at 135K burned a case of 20W-50 a month of local driving..... I could smoke out anyone at will though...

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On the '69, a lot of people thought it was the best looking of the fastbacks.... And the back window louvers was an add on, a lota cars had them back in the later 70's..... cool looking at the time..... I guess the for-runner to those things people put in the front windows to try and keep the car cool...