The 7-Up Edition Ford Mustang is one of the more unusual special editions out there, representing a stillborn marketing campaign that intended to give away a bunch of Fox body convertibles in celebrate of the NCAA finals. The competition never came to life, but the Mustangs wearing unique green paint with white interiors had already been produced, so Ford simply offered it like any other model in the lineup. This example listed here on Facebook Marketplace is equipped with the preferred 5-speed manual and looks clean inside and out.
Like most other special editions, the 7-Up connection doesn’t add a ton of value, but don’t tell the owners of these one-off soda cars. There’s a mystique around special edition muscle cars that somehow, no matter how limiting the changes to the car actually are, a limited-production model with just cosmetic tweaks is worth a heady premium over a similarly-equipped model. I’m sure for a while, sellers could be greedy and push for top dollar from buyers when the car was new; these days, not so much. As you can see, the seats are worn but still in very presentable condition.
Surprisingly for a special edition car, the seller has made numerous modifications under the hood. Normally, a car like this would be left bone-stock out of fear of affecting future values; not in this case, as the seller has added 3.73 gears, a lightened flywheel from Ford Performance, Deatschwerks 300lph fuel pump, BBK billet adjustable fuel regulator, full exhaust, BBK Performance high-flow fuel rails, and a Trick Flow intake. All of these are reversible but should also make the Mustang a hoot to drive.
Underneath, this 7-Up edition is in excellent condition, with clean floorpans and no major rot on the suspension components. The listing notes the Mustang has Stiffler full-length subframe connectors in addition to the other modifications listed above. The seller is asking $12,000, which is a reasonable price in today’s market. For this money, you get a manual, V8 droptop that’s super easy to maintain and will always enjoy the claim to fame as one of the original 7-Up cars.
Some tasty mods but nothing outrageous.
I like it for the price and condition!
At this rate, we ought to have a full six pack of these within another month or so…
Luggage 🧳 rack equipped 🙌
Are those pop rivets in the rocker panel?
Yes, they are pop rivets. That is part of the chassis stiffening added when the fox body was built as a convertible. Remember this chassis was never designed for a convertible top. So the very early 1983’s had the tops cut off at Cars and Concepts (the convertible builder). Later they were shipped to C&C with a fiberglass roof to seal them from the weather. All convertible through 1993 were build at C&C. They added the top and all the unique structural parts.
In the June 10 email you listed one in Washington state and it seems these things keep popping up on other sites for sale so it leaves me wondering did they actually build more than people thought they did or are people trying to pass off a Forest green mustang as the 7Up edition? Either way both cars are nice cars wish I was in a position to get one
While the 7Up cars are a special edition they really aren’t unique. It was actually the most common combination Ford build in 1990. This was the only model to get the Deep Emerald Green and the only model with a white interior. In later years both were available.
Is everyone selling their 7-Up Mustangs at the same time? Seems like there’s been a lot of these lately, weird.
So if this is a” 7up” edition,would a triple white be “vanilla ice edition”?at least this one has a very realistic price tag.
🧊 🍦 Yes !!
All things being equal. 87-93 5.0 Mustangs have always been a good buy.They were quick, built well compared to other cars of the period, and were very reliable It doesn’t take much money or skill to make one extremely fast. Finding a nice one now that is in good shape and. fairly priced, is starting to become a bit more difficult. The 7 Up edition always looked nice when cleaned up. Every manufacturer made different cars that everyone knows is a solid bet. These era Mustangs fall into that category.
This car seems to be good for the money. I am surprised it is still available. Nice clean car, great color, not over the top modifications, V8 with manual trans, plus a drop top. Am I missing something here? imo