Fox Mustang Magazine Issue 10 | Page 13

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 op ѥ