Two Door Tuesday Lets See Them Two Doors

[KABQ]

Thanks man! I definitely made the Miata better and better with each revision and should've just thrown a Crate LS3 in it! When I added everything up for the K24 swap, after it was finished, it was about $7k more than an LS3 swap would've been... Before going the K24 route, I had installed a Rotrex SC to it, that was fun 25% of the time, but gave me more trouble than it was worth the other 75%....

Agree with the Bronco, it's way easier to keep the Bronco at the speed limit than the Miata was! I love building stuff, doesn't matter what stuff, I just like making things work better! Before my mother passed away, she drove my Miata, when it was still Silver and fell in love with it, so she bought an NC, this NC1 actually!

She got cancer maybe 6-9 months after she bought it and had to sell it. About a month after she passed away, my stepdad liked the Miata so much, that he and I drove all the way to Little Rock to pick up the NC that he wanted, there were only 3 matches in the USA.

An ND is the only Miata that I cannot get in at all! I sat in this young lady's ND1 in 2020 and it wasn't pretty! She thought it was hilarious, that's as far as the door would shut, LOL!

A couple of years ago, before I bought the Mustang, I thought about buying an NC3 and dropping a K24 in it, but they hadn't gotten all the kinks worked out yet... Then, I was thinking, I'll do the Ford Fusion 2.5 swap and throw on a turbo, but the price of everything in 2021-22 was ridiculous and I couldn't find a good NC for a reasonable price. I also thought about buying a Saturn Sky/Pontiac Solstice and doing an LS3 swap to it, but finding a decent donor car was again the issue with this idea too.... It's crazy, as pricey as Fox's are getting, it was actually cheaper to find a nice, unmolested (well, not totally) Fox for less than a 20 year old Miata or Sky/Solstice!

This was the one and only time I drove my Fox, the day I bought it, LOL! It's been on jack stands ever since

Sorry if anyone gets mad about what I posted, but it's a nice break until next Tuesday with more Bronco pics taking this thread over!

So many good times in mine.

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[5GENIDN]

6Ged this post!

Unfortunately I have a tendency to lead people there.... for some reason that scattershot thought process is a constant in my brain..... I have to be one of if not the worst offender.

 

[5GENIDN]

Heading to King of the Hammers tomorrow. Went up to the ranch to pick up the small trailer. Have never towed with the Bronco before, just fine very light trailer. Driving the F150 Raptor down and staying in the Ford Racing and Optima Oasis. Going to be bad ass.

That looks like a nice set up!

 

[Mirage]

Love seeing the old fox body notchbacks! Reminds me of my '88, started life as a 4cyl/5spd, ended life as a Frankenstein 466 CJ Lima motor/C6 with a 250hp N2O shot. Made about 850 with the bottle, would run high 9's all day long on 10" cheaters. Super fun, very reliable sleeper street car. I'll hafta dig up some pix....sold that one about 20 years ago....

The funny thing is, as much as I loved Fox's all my life, until I bought my Notch a few years ago, I didn't know they were available in a Notchback, LOL! I've had 3 Mustangs in my almost 51 years of living! A '97 Triple Black Cobra Convertible, a '93 GT 5-speed and my current '88 Coupe

My '88 Coupe is a factory 5.0, 5 speed, loaded car, never wrecked (according to a very professional painter, that knew my dad), odometer said 78k and he said it was probably 100% accurate! It had a Maximum Motorsports Road & Track Package on it with welded in subframe connectors, someone had put SN95 Cobra front hubs/brakes and full rear axle on it, with 3.73 gears. The only time I drove it, it was fun and that was almost 3 years ago! I need to get it finished up and figure out what I'm going to do with it?

I had the opportunity to buy a '66.5 hardtop, 289, auto, when I was a younger man, before eBay. It needed a minor restoration, but when I sat in it, the seat was as far back as it could go and my knees were touching the dash, so I passed it up, he only wanted $1000 for it! If I had bought it, someone would've eventually came out with seat extensions, but at the time, I would not have known that..

 

[Valhalla]

I had a 67 mustang and an 88..... I had a 1981 Bronco 82, 84... I still have a 96 Bronco and a 2023.

 

[Mirage]

I had a 67 mustang and an 88..... I had a 1981 Bronco 82, 84... I still have a 96 Bronco and a 2023.

I sense you lied earlier about being butt-hurt?

 

[Mirage]

I assume this is how @Valhalla feels about ME right now, LOL!

 

[EvilJim1971]

Heading to King of the Hammers tomorrow. Went up to the ranch to pick up the small trailer. Have never towed with the Bronco before, just fine very light trailer. Driving the F150 Raptor down and staying in the Ford Racing and Optima Oasis. Going to be bad ass.

I need a 2 person trailer...

 

[Valhalla]

I assume this is how @Valhalla feels about me right now, LOL!

I thought you were saying the shit I post.... lol Go through my messages if you get bored...

 

[Oldhippie]

since this seems to have become a Fox body thread, here is my 79 Capri turbo RS….traded the wife’s college pinto in on it when we got a few bucks…she got T boned when an old lady ran a light…replaced with a cj7 jamboree…

 

[RoLyMa27]

I had a 67 mustang and an 88..... I had a 1981 Bronco 82, 84... I still have a 96 Bronco and a 2023.

I spotted him the other day. Just didn't think anyone would believe me!

 

[Q1svt]

Heading to King of the Hammers tomorrow. Went up to the ranch to pick up the small trailer. Have never towed with the Bronco before, just fine very light trailer. Driving the F150 Raptor down and staying in the Ford Racing and Optima Oasis. Going to be bad ass.

lol, it looks funny with tiny tires


The trailer… bronco looks good

 

[Clarke1791]

Jan 2026 Grapevine, Texas

 

[Q1svt]

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Think he’s fine.. just been doing guy stuff with friends.

Shame they didn’t do it to a moredoor …

(I stole the picture from someone here.. Tks)

 

[Q1svt]

Jan 2026 Grapevine, Texas

Clarke, I guess no one told you not to get your traction boards wet.

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