IN THE MARCH ISSUE, we revealed a new project vehicle that we’d acquired last summer to serve as the subject of our next Hemmings Garage video series. We’d done a prior series on an ’87 Camaro IROC in 2022, and it just seemed right that we’d do something with the IROC’s period archrival, the Fox-era 5.0 Mustang. We also discussed how it seems to be getting increasingly difficult to find a Fox 5.0 for short money these days — thanks to their resurgence in popularity. But our persistence paid off and we landed a very clean and mostly original ’91 LX hatchback.
As we explained last month, our intention for the Mustang was to roll with some of those nostalgic feelings and build the new project