Featured on AutoHunter, the web public sale platform pushed by ClassicCars.com, is that this 1984 Ford Mustang SVO.

Within the Nineteen Eighties, efficiency was beginning to be an attainable factor for automotive producers. Gone have been the times of the Corvette with solely 160 horsepower, and the producers have been studying cope with emissions necessities whereas concurrently constructing excessive efficiency vehicles. As well as, American producers resembling Ford have been taking a look at what the Europeans have been constructing, assume the Porsche 944, and noticed a marketplace for a brand new form of efficiency automobile.

The Mustang SVO was the automotive that Ford determined can be a competitor to the Europeans, a automotive with robust, straight line efficiency and dealing with that will give consumers an choice to personal a real Ford sports activities automotive constructed within the USA.

The Mustang SVO, or Particular Car Operations, the division inside the blue oval that designed the automotive, was a limited-production model of the Fox physique Mustang offered from 1984 to 1986. Ford would construct much less that 10,000 Mustang SVOs making it, as much as that time, the bottom manufacturing Fox physique automotive.

The SVO division was led by Mike Kranefuss who had been the top of Ford’s Worldwide Motorsports division for 12 years. Kranefuss put collectively an engineering workforce for this Mustang led by Glen Lyall with Bob Negstad in control of chassis growth.

Ford had initially deliberate to launch the Mustang SVO as a 1982¹⁄₂ mannequin, however as a result of short-term cancellation of Fox platform Mustangs, the introduction was delayed till 1983 the place it was unveiled at a press occasion in California at Sears Level Raceway.

The largest problem that confronted the Mustang SVO was value. The 1984¹⁄₂ Mustang SVO value $15,585, which was $6,000 extra {that a} base Mustang GT. Individuals voted with their wallets, and by the top of 1986 the Mustang SVO was discontinued.

The 1984 Mustang SVO listed right here is powered by its inventory turbocharged and intercooled 2.3-liter inline four-cylinder engine and backed by its inventory five-speed handbook transmission. The automotive options energy steering, energy disc brakes, energy home windows and locks, and an AM/FM/cassette stereo. The automotive is painted in Black over a Charcoal material inside and it features a clear CARFAX report together with a transparent title.

The outside of this Mustang SVO options fog lights, the SVO-specific hood scoop, bodyside moldings, and twin rear spoilers. The paint and trim appears to be like to be in wonderful situation with no main points disclosed or seen within the many footage supplied.

This Mustang SVO additionally nonetheless rides on its inventory 16-inch forged aluminum wheels which can be distinctive to the SVO and wrapped in Goodyear radial tires. An fascinating historic tidbit is that the Dearborn Meeting Plant had no equipment to mount and steadiness 16 inch wheels, so that they needed to develop new automated equipment so as to put together for these.

The inside of the automotive options what need to be the very best seats ever put right into a Mustang up up to now, the SVO-only entrance bucket seats. These entrance seats have been manufactured by Lear/Siglar and have outsized aspect bolsters with pump up lumbar help. The automotive additionally encompasses a folding rear seat. Each entrance and rear seats look to be upholstered within the vehicles authentic Charcoal material.

Inside options embody energy home windows and locks, energy steering, air-con, an AM/FM/cassette stereo, a tilt steering column, a leather-based wrapped SVO steering wheel, a middle console-mounted handbook transmission shifter, and a daily/premium gas swap. Devices embody a federally mandated 85-mph speedometer in addition to gauges for gas stage, turbo increase stage, coolant temperature, and oil stress. The odometer reads 90,404 miles, which the promoting seller studies to be correct. Total the inside appears to be like like a pleasant survivor with no rips or tears evident within the photographs.

The automotive additionally appears to be like good below the hood with the inventory fuel-injected, turbocharged, and intercooled 2.3-liter inline four-cylinder engine trying clear with no corrosion or rust seen within the footage. When new the engine produced 175 horsepower and 210 lb-ft of torque which have been robust numbers for the day, extra energy than the usual Porsche 944.

To me the Mustang SVO might be probably the most fascinating Ford manufacturing automotive of the complete decade of the Nineteen Eighties. It was the primary avenue automotive constructed by the Ford SVO group and greater than delivered on its plan to supply true competitors to the brand new spherical of sports activities vehicles popping out of Europe. Its solely problem was that of value. Consider the Mustang SVO as a European Mustang after which all of it is smart. These vehicles are uncommon, enjoyable to drive, and supply many distinctive bits that make them way more fascinating than the Mustang GT of the period. Till lately they’ve been all however ignored, however with occasions resembling RADwood celebrating the Nineteen Eighties and 90s eras of vehicles, they’re gaining popularity and higher understood. I feel the timing is ideal so as to add one to your automotive assortment.

The public sale for this 1984 Ford Mustang SVO ends Monday, October 23, 2023, at 12:15 p.m. (PDT)

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