FOX MUSTANG
PRODUCTION NUMBERS
YeAR
COnVeRTIBle
hATChBACK
1979
213,019
0
156,981
1980
152,555
0
118,809
1981
90,880
0
91,672
1982
51,145
0
79,273
1983
33,177
23,438
64,258
1984
37,681
17,600
86,200
1985
56,781
15,110
84,626
1986
83,775
22,945
117,690
1987
43,262
21,447
94,444
1988
49,795
35,500
125,930
1989
50,560
42,244
116,695
1990
22,503
26,958
78,728
1991
19,449
21,514
57,774
1992
15,716
23,470
40,094
1993
a Ford dealership in 1981 to look at a new
Mustang that had featured a convertible
conversion. When I crawled underneath (to
the chagrin of the salesman), I found a couple
of inadequate bars with over an inch worth
of washers as spacers in some places trying to
stiffen the weakened chassis. I walked away.
But the end did come. The dry spell was
over when the ’83 model year reintroduced
the Mustang convertible. Convertible
Mustang production has been continuous
since then. Usually it has been the numberone seller of all convertible models each
year. The percentage of sales of Mustang
convertibles each year they were available on
hARdTOP
24,852
27,300
62,076
the Fox-body was even higher than the firstgeneration sales.
In 1969 Ford built the last of the GTs,
supplanted by the popularity of the Mach 1.
But even the Mach 1 disappeared from the
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