It was late 1978, and the new 1979 Ford Mustang had me mesmerized. It was modern and sleek and didn’t ape all the Mustangs before it. No horse in the grille, no silly C-shaped scallop along its flanks ...

If you’re from the Gen X era, you probably have a Fox Body Mustang memory. Whether you owned one, knew someone who had one, or got smoked by one at a stoplight, the 1979 through 1993 Mustang defined ...