Went back home last weekend to pick up the '85 that I bought from a friend. I had had it towed to my bro's house where it was waiting for me under cover. My friend said it "needed a starter relay". I've learned not to trust this friend when it comes to these matters. After several hours of picking through burned wiring and (temorarily) butt splicing 4 or 5 fusible links and other wires the car fired and everything worked.
Anyways, first impressions. This is my first Mustang and my first RWD performance car so I'm still getting the swing of it. I must admit that I'm quite smitten with how it fishtails all over the road when you lay into it in first or second. I'm a little suprised with how poorly it handles however. I believe it is basically stock GT suspension and it does have a traction bar arrangement of a sort I'm not familiar with. This is defenitley not a car for the back mountain switches (yet). The brakes are - well, I guess they are what you would expect in a car of this vintage. They seem spongy and hard to modulate. I've already purchased an SN95 brake upgrade and a set of OEM Bullitt wheels, so I'm tracking to correct these things.
Stock rocks/Stock sucks rocks - Paint on this car is excellent but they painted all of the moldings and installed the cheese grater tail lights which I'm not a fan of. With the exception of the Bullitt wheels I intend to correct the car back to stock appearance as much as I can. The car is white.
Anyways, overall I'm really happy with it, and the gas mileage isn't nearly as bad as I had dreaded (it has 2.73's) since its a "mid 13 second" car. I beleive a trip to the track and a dyno is in order.
Jason