As it turned out 1977 was one of the lower sales years. The average since 1974 was around 180k or more. For 1977 the sales number fell a bit short @ only 150K. (Believe it or not that was more than Mustang sales for the 1971, 1972 and 1973 models!!).
There was some excitement for the 1977 Mustang. For one thing the Cobra II could be had in white with red stripes and if that doesn’t stop your heart the options chrome luggage rack for the ’77 hard top coupe will.
You might be thinking, “Hey wait a minute!!! Did he say ‘hard top’? ‘Hard top’ as in there was something else? Like a CONVERTIBLE? THE CONVERTIBLE IS BACK?” Well YES, if you spell it ‘T-TOP‘.
That’s not a bad-looking car!!! Agree?
The huge option for 1977 was the T-Top. Frankly, I like T-Tops. I had a Camaro with a T-Top and loved it.
Engine line up was the same as the previous years with the V8 302 (in the Cobra II package) producing 139 hp.
The Cobra package also include honeycomb wheels (or I think they were referred to as ‘lacy’).
Yeah..I guess they are more ‘lacy’ than ‘honeycomb’.
Thanks for reading and check out this blog. The owner overs some of her issues when restoring a 1977 Mustang.
http://mustangiidiaries.blogspot.com/search/label/engine
Tim
My friend had a 1977 Monte Carlo with T TOPS and Delco ‘4 speaker’ 8 Track.
One day it was raining and he had the T TOPS off; I ran over to tell him it was raining, and he said ‘So what???”. I asked if he was going to put the T TOPS back on, and he claimed that they leaked so bad it didn’t matter if they were on, or off. He ended up trading it off for a Dodge Magnum (no T TOPS) with a really nice, super smog choked 360 V8 with a sad 160HP.
When are you going to write about the real Mustang excitement; the FOX Body and return of a real 5.0 HO?
Hey Bill. They will all leak if they aren’t keep in good repair. I can’t tell you how many current and former C4 Corvette owners were surprised that my top in my 84 didn’t leak. (Corvettes are T-Tip like – with the earlier models actually being T-Tops).
Don’t know if I’ll do one on the Fox body.