80's factory lightweights?

[Lemans69]

I remember going to the Ford dealer in '87 to check out the new Mustangs and seeing a group of brand new 5.0 5-Speed LX Notchbacks lined up in the inventory lot with no options. The window stickers were blank in the options section. No A/C, no radio, crank up windows, etc. At the time I thought they were sort of like the COPO Camaros, and would probably be valuable in the future. I always wondered what happened to those cars.

[old5.0]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lemans69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I remember going to the Ford dealer in '87 to check out the new Mustangs and seeing a group of brand new 5.0 5-Speed LX Notchbacks lined up in the inventory lot with no options. The window stickers were blank in the options section. No A/C, no radio, crank up windows, etc. At the time I thought they were sort of like the COPO Camaros, and would probably be valuable in the future. I always wondered what happened to those cars. </div></div>

Basically every coupe ordered that way (that wasn't an SSP) would have been ordered specifically with racing in mind. Most would have been hacked up and raced to death long ago. I've been on the hunt for a reasonably clean, zero option, radio delete 5.0 coupe for several years now with no luck. I've owned several 5.0 coupes, but they've all either had options, been ex race cars with serious issues or both.

[novadude]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: old5.0</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lemans69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I remember going to the Ford dealer in '87 to check out the new Mustangs and seeing a group of brand new 5.0 5-Speed LX Notchbacks lined up in the inventory lot with no options. The window stickers were blank in the options section. No A/C, no radio, crank up windows, etc. At the time I thought they were sort of like the COPO Camaros, and would probably be valuable in the future. I always wondered what happened to those cars. </div></div>

Basically every coupe ordered that way (that wasn't an SSP) would have been ordered specifically with racing in mind. Most would have been hacked up and raced to death long ago. I've been on the hunt for a reasonably clean, zero option, radio delete 5.0 coupe for several years now with no luck. I've owned several 5.0 coupes, but they've all either had options, been ex race cars with serious issues or both. </div></div>

I worked at a Chevy dealer as a lot attendant in 1993 while in my last year of college. Some guy traded a dark blue 5.0 LX Notch with a light blue interior on a new LT1 Z28. Car was odd in that it had no A/C, roll-up windows, cheap vinyl interior. It was an AOD car.

At the time, I had a '70 Nova with a mild 350 that ran high-14s. My Nova could easily take most stock loaded-up GTs when street racing (not that I condone that sort of thing). [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/wink.gif[/img]

I got to drive this stripped LX around a bit - that SOB would RUN! Felt a lot faster than my Nova. It had to be super light compared to the typical 5.0.