Itialian? pshh..
FTW 
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I actually got to drive one of those GTs once. Granted it was raining at the time and it was just around the parking lot, but I still got behind the wheel!
This was when I worked at a Ford dealer. Down the street was an auto museum, and they had one of these on consignment. Somehow they managed to damage the (front) hood latch so we got to fix it. While it was there we all took turns taking it around the parking lot. It was cool, but definitely not a car I would want to own (nor have to get in and out of frequently). I think all of you with back problems can relate.
I didn't get to work on it, but the poor guy who did accidentally dropped a socked down between the (front) storage area and the firewall, and the socket fell down onto the underside panels. He had to lift the car up and remove the panels to get his socket out. Since Ford has a big NO-NO policy to using air tools on this car he had to remove what appeared to be about 50-60 bolts, one at a time, by hand to get the panels off to retrieve his one little socket. All in all he spent about 3-4 hours on the car to do a 20 minute job. He was furious!
I've seen some interesting things though... Worked on and driven a couple of Delorians (nothing special really)... I got to help build and install a custom exhaust for a Chrysler Dual Ghia that Frank Sinatra used to own. My dad was a mechanic too and when I was a kid he called my mom up and had her bring us kids up to his work. He was putting a starter in the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile and thought we'd get a kick out of seeing it (and sitting in it). We did! This was when we lived down in Houston. He also worked on Nolan Ryan's cars (and a bunch of the Astros at the time) and would get us 'sponsor box' tickets to the games quite frequently.
