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kleinbl00 · 3240 days ago · link · · parent · post: Fear and Loathing in the World's Most Hated Mustang
There was a '75 Ford Maverick in our circle of friends back in High School. It had the 302 that this miserable Mustang II needs in order to justify its existence and it was still a wretched piece of shit. Anyone who has ever turned a wrench on a variety of '70s cars can testify that the sunset of British automotive and the ascendancy of Japan and the crushing defeat of Detroit were not dictated by fashion. The Japanese cars of the era were tidy, innovative and fun to work on, the American cars were clumsy, shoddily built and stout in all the wrong directions ('70s American emissions controls, looking right at you) and the British cars of the '70s were built by saboteurs.