Chip Foose Improves Fox-Body Ford Mustang With “5.0 Shelby” Redesign 21 Jan 2021, 14:48 UTC ·
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Offered in three body styles, the third generation of the Mustang also happens to be the longest-lived pony car produced by Ford. The secret to its longevity is the Fox platform, which gave us the Fox-body Mustang nomenclature even though unibody means more than exterior panels. 9 photos
Greatly improved twice during its life cycle, the Fox-based pony kept its head up high during the Malaise Era when the base motor came in the guise of an 88-horsepower Pinto four-cylinder. The Ford Motor Company even had to drop the 5.0 in favor of a smaller V8 for a few years due to the second oil crisis, but the small-block engine came back with a back in the 1980s.