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My 1989 Mustang 5.0 LX has been sold! I still have a Britax Husky child car seat and a Britax Laptop child seat too, if anyone is looking to buy either of those. See the child seat notes at the bottom of this page for more information.

I bought my Mustang in September 2004 from a woman (actually a grandmother!) who purchased it new in 1989. I've put about $4000 into into the car. I replaced virtually all of the A/C, tuned and cleaned up the engine, repaired the convertible top, had brake work done and fixed other sundry things like a broken door handle. The car is Maryland inspected. The body is in great shape and the car received all new paint courtesy of the previous owner. I've kept the paint touched up since then and just had the car fully detailed, inside and out. The top is also in excellent visual and mechanical shape. No modifications have been made. The car's garage-kept with about 97,700 miles on it (3K from me). The tires have low mileage. I have full receipts for all repairs I paid for, plus the receipts from the previous (original) owner. All mechanical work was done at my favorite local shop. It's a non-smoker's car. Options: 5.0 liter V8 engine, air conditioning, auto transmission, power doors, power windows, power top, cruise control, rear glass window, gray cloth interior, premium sound FM stereo with casette player. Ask about my child seats for this car - they are designed for cars without rear shoulder belts (I bought mine on Ebay).

Child Seat Notes

I installed two very strange child seats in the back of my Mustang because I had young kids, ages 4 and 6 at the time. The problem with pre-1990 Mustangs is that they have no rear shoulder belts, just lap belts, so conventional booster seats don't work. Old "shield" style seats are very dangerous, and strapping your child in with just a lap belt is neither legal nor safe. Also, no one makes a retrofit shoulder belt kit for the 1989 convertible. Some people have installed their own shoulder belts, but I found two safe car seats that work without shoulder belts instead. One is the nifty Britax Laptop, which I purchased on eBay for a rather large sum (it's discontinued). The price I had to pay shows that there's an unmet need for booster seats that work with older cars. It work for kids up to 65 pounds. The other car seat is a Britax Husky, a sort of giant infant seat for kids up to 80 pounds. I prefer the Laptop because it keeps the child low in the seat (it fits over the child, not under), which may be better in case of rollover. Note that two Husky seats can't fit side by side in a Mustang convertible, but the Laptop fits next to the Husky. Of course hauling children around in the back of a convertible without rollover protection will never be perfectly safe, so I only did it for occasional short trips. I also kept the top up on the freeway because rear seat passengers have no protection against cigarette butts and who knows what else. When my daughter turned 7 (laws vary), I started putting her in the front seat which I ultimately felt was safer in a convertible without airbags.

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