The vintage car trade is seeing a boost in sales thanks to another vintage artifact: North Texas' own rap-superstar-turned-TV-host Vanilla Ice.
In the last year, the value of the vintage 1987 Ford Mustang 5.0 increased by nearly 42% compared to the previous year, according toThe considerable uptick in sales and prices of most of the third-generation Fox body Mustangs, made between 1987 and 1993, can be partially traced back to Dallas, specifically to the former hometown rapper.Hot 100 record chart. The accompanying music video depicted the artist driving his white 1989 Ford Mustang on Dallas streets.
Before he was an American Music Awards winner, Ice was known by former peers from the now-defunct City Lights nightclub in South Dallas and Mustang fanatics as Robert Matthew Van Winkle, his birth name. The rapper doesn't forget his"Cool as Ice" heyday, and oftenphoto of himself and his Mustang Van Winkle attended R.L. Turner High School in Carrollton. His white, 225-horsepower Mustang, with a white convertible top, white Fittipaldi star wheels and white interior parts, was hard to miss rolling through the Dallas neighborhoods in the early '90s. Its dual mufflers emitted a deep throaty rumble when Van Winkle would floor the accelerator and burn out — and the stereo"With the bass kicked in, the [Cerwin] Vegas are pumpin," as he rapped in"Ice Ice Baby.
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