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Originally posted by silent_jay
if you saw what people do to their cars around here and I mean horrible cars.
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Hardly a recent phenomena, behold my first car.
A poor little 6 cylinder, 3 speed 1964 1/2 Mustang. Keep in mind that the 8 cylinder Mustang was a completely different car, suspension-wise. The 6-banger was a Falcon with a Mustang body and at the time everyone knew it. Back then most Mustangs were dirt common and cheap as hell. I paid $400 for that car in 1972 when it was less than 8 years old.
So in my quest to be cool, I jacked up the rear end with a leaf spring lift kit and put 5 bolt adapter/spacers on the rear wheels and then tires so big they hit the fender wells with every bump in the road. At some time after this picture was taken I added GT350 stripes and repainted it myself in my driveway (it didn't look good...).
I cringe now. It was the 1972 equivalent of a riced-out Civic. At the time I didn't give one flying fuck what anyone else thought about it, I liked it. I would even race you knowing full well I was going to lose.
Back to the Daytona the OP got, I still say go for it! Oh, and I'm not implying anything about your car by my story. I've only seen one Daytona like yours in recent years but it looked pretty damn good.