Well, I don't currently own an F bod, but I can give a rundown of what I had and why I had it...
I grew up in the 70's and 80's, and when I was about 10 a guy down the street from me had a red T/A with the big chicken and all the flash. To me it was like a huge Hot Wheels car! Then my downstairs neighbor bought a 77 Formula, and he let me go to the dealership with him to pick it up, and he listened to me when I told him he should have them put the big bird on da hood! 8) Then of course Smokey and da Bandit came out, and later Knight Rider, soooooo, this 'lil unstable car buff def had F bodies in his head.
BUT, I also had Mustangs in my head...
I didn't get a chance to really own nice cars until I joined the USAF in 1983, and then I wasn't able to find any Mustangs in my price range that I really liked. So, I bought a cherry 1963 Falcon, and within a few months it had a built 289 under {and through} the hood! But, this is an F bod story, soooooo, lets flash forward to the early 90's. This kid at my part time job had a 74 Formula w/ a swapped in 455. It was kinda a roach, but hey, it was a big block car, plus it had a really awesome hood; it was a twin scooped Formula hood, but it also had the shaker scoop. He decided to sell it so he could buy a T/A, so I got it off him for 500 bux. It had a 2.43 rear, and with that 455 it would REALLY go upstairs on the top end! I used it as a daily driver for a while, but then the engine started using oil, and I noticed the rear sub frame was rotted through. So, I parted it out and made a few more bux than I orig paid for it.
Then in 1996 I happened to stop in at Queen City Pontiac to poke around, and I saw a 1994 25Th Annv. T/A sitting on the lot. It was love @ first burnout, so I picked it up as a daily driver. It later got a Procharger and a bunch of other stuff, and it decided to give up the Opti in Sep 1998, a week before I was getting married! I worked on it and tried to convert it over to an Electromotive Opti Eliminator, but the car never really ran right, so it didn't get much use. In the mean time I picked up an 88 Formula that was kinda beat, so I put a Super Rammed 383 in it. It was a fun car, but I wasn't really into it because the body was beat, so I put it up for sale. A guy came to look at it, and it turned out the guy had a 79 T/A for sale. It was in decent condition, and the guy had swapped in a 455 Oldsmobile to take the place of the 403 Oldsmobile. Welllllllllll, I ended up trading him my 88 Formula for the 79 T/A. I used the T/A as a back up car, and at one point it was my daily driver for a spell. And why all this was going on, my AMX was re entering my life. I had sold it to a buddy of mine in 1997, and he was getting bored with it. He liked my 94 T/A, I missed my AMX, so another trade was made. This left me with the 79 T/A, and the 73 AMX. I also had my Dominion 32V engine in the works, so I decided to sell the AMX, and keep the T/A for my project. Welp, everybody low balled me on the AMX, so I said "F' It!" and decided to keep it. And in the meantime a guy had seen my 79 T/A around, and he expressed interest in buying it. So, I sold the 79 T/A, and now I am left with my 73 AMX and my Dominion engine project.
Oh yeah, there is also the 87 T-Type I bought last Jan, but we will take about that later.
And as far as Imports go...I hate 'em. My Old Man never owned an Import, and I won't either. I believe in the automobiles my country produces, and that is all I have to say about that