EPIC FAIL
1980 FORD MUSTANG V8
WORDS: SAM PHILIP
Many wise, knowledgeable car enthusiasts will sagely inform you the third gen ‘fox body’ Mustang is anything but a fail. They will inform you that, in the near half century since its launch, it has proven itself an ultimate tuner car: cheap to buy, easy to work on, straightforward to boost to big horsepower. The fox body Mustang, they will tell you, is a legend. Epic Fail is here to tell you that these people are wrong. Yes, the Gen 3 Mustang has indeed proven itself a fine platform for modification, but that’s just proof of how badly Ford ballsed it up first time round. No one’s ever felt the need to modify the Mona Lisa.