A good friend of mine has offered me a trade deal on my Javelin. He has a rather large collection of American cars and has always appreciated my car and offered to buy it a few times, so it would be a good home. Plus he's local and would sell it back if he ever decided to get rid of it.
The car he's offering is a legit 1996 Mustang Cobra coupe. It was originally red but has been repainted a gunmetal metallic color. It's lowered on some Maximum Motorsports products, and has quite a bit of mods, all of which are name-brand and installed correctly. He doesn't want my FR500 wheels, so those would go right onto the Mustang.
Thoughts?
(I'll get some photos tonight when he brings the car by)
No. That is one of Mustang's least popular body style.
Non PI sohc 4.6, just about the least desirable mustang.
dropstep wrote:
Non PI sohc 4.6, just about the least desirable mustang.
Wrong, it's a Cobra, not a GT. 4.6L DOHC, from before Ford screwed the DOHC up (99). That also means 13" front brakes with PBR calipers, LSD rear with 3.55 gears (IIRC), and other goodies.
I know the 4.6 engines don't get much love, but damn do they sound like sex once they're uncorked. Very Italian-like to my ears.
Yeah i missed the cobra part, i personally still wouldnt make the trade. Then again i like foxbodys so what do i know. Everytime i see that platform all i can think is overweight foxbody.
It seems like a lateral move, which makes sense on a fair trade I suppose. You definitely go down on the cool factor. The Javelin is awesome. The Mustang is only sort of cool if you know what it is. You should be trading way up in reliability and parts availability. Is this a car you can put into the daily/autocross rotation?
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MegaDork
6/6/16 7:41 p.m.
The mustang may make better trade fodder down the road, because bros.
I'd keep the Javelin. Much cooler car. SN95 Cobras aren't worth all that much, plus it's had the color changed. I hate that.
You'd have to change your screen name. I wouldn't do it.
P.s. Lets see some javelin pics.
mazdeuce wrote:
It seems like a lateral move, which makes sense on a fair trade I suppose. You definitely go down on the cool factor. The Javelin is awesome. The Mustang is only sort of cool if you know what it is. You should be trading way up in reliability and parts availability. Is this a car you can put into the daily/autocross rotation?
It is a lateral move. The Cobra is ready to go, no problem as a DD/AX car. The color change was pretty well done.
Javelin wrote:
dropstep wrote:
Non PI sohc 4.6, just about the least desirable mustang.
Wrong, it's a Cobra, not a GT. 4.6L DOHC, from before Ford screwed the DOHC up (99). That also means 13" front brakes with PBR calipers, LSD rear with 3.55 gears (IIRC), and other goodies.
3:27 gears.
And I don't believe they had PBR calipers until 99. Could be wrong though.
They are very cool cars, and I'm probably in the minority here but I think that the 96-98 Cobras are one of the best looking mustangs ever made.
That said, they are not worth much, especially repainted. For whatever reason, a lot seem to have blown motors. There is a guy local to me that made very good money buying gorgeous examples with blown motors for pennies on the dollar, then parting them out. I'd bet he's done at least a dozen of them.
IMHO, it only makes sense to do if you really want the car to have. I don't think your ahead any other way.
Sine_Qua_Non wrote:
No. That is one of Mustang's least popular body style.
And I hope it stays that way, 'cause I'd love me some early SN95 Cobra. They're just so.... smooth. I guess you'd have to have grown up around the pushrod Fox-bodies to understand why the Cobra had so much HSQ. It was a Mustang that was refined, and way more power than Mustangs had in over 25 years. You had to buy them from a special dealership, and the valve covers were signed by the people who assembled the engine.
Although a Cobra was the only rear drive car I ever drove that had torque steer.
Javelin
Looks like they didn't even spray the wheel arch properly.
Also they swapped out the beautiful clear OEM lights for APC looking one piece units.
Not trying to be a judgemental Dick, but there are too many red flags for me.
Opti
HalfDork
6/6/16 9:37 p.m.
Mustang looks ratty, javelin looks like it gas character.
Mustang is probably the better car for car things. But the paint and body look like hell (rear bumper). I wouldnt trade.
I am currently looking for an sn95 to build a turbo car with, and it must have fr500s because thats perfect, but i wouldnt make that trade in your shoes.
Is it supposed to be mystichrome?
Looks like you are trading a fairly unique car.....for something sort of common. I'm not a fan of javelins but it's a unique car
I'm a Mustang person, but I would definitely keep the Javelin.
Also, the red paint clearly visible in the wheel arches should indicate the lack of quality in the color change, IMHO.
I wouldn't do it... But I understand that the javelin is going to be going anyway and the other cars that were noted as replacements in the moving thread don't really seem to be any better than this choice. The advantage to choosing this trade seems to be that you will get dibs if he sells it later. I'm not you, but my guess is that you will want the javelin back sooner than later. So that alone is worth the trade.
I don't think I'd trade any 60s/70s car for a 90s Mustang.
I think you'd regret trading it later. It is easy for me to say though. I really don't think those style mustangs are worth a dang.
