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Offline Nypsy

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My eight year old Mustang
« on: July 09, 2017, 06:55:13 PM »
Ford Mustang that is.
Here it is on the day I bought it in June 2009.



This picture I took today. My daily driver, through rain and sometimes sleet and snow. Just turned 100,000 miles and except for normal maintenance I have not had a single problem. Still as much fun to drive today as the day I picked it up from the dealer.


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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2017, 08:14:34 PM »
Beautiful car, Nypsy.  Looks like you've been very good to her!

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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2017, 10:26:13 PM »
Want to sell it?

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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2017, 10:41:36 PM »
Good to see it hasn't smashed into parked cars or crowds of people yet!
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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2017, 06:04:50 AM »
Good to see it hasn't smashed into parked cars or crowds of people yet!

When I see Mustangs crashing like that i think:

1. They are drunk.
2. They have never driven a rear wheel drive car in the snow.
3. They are just bad drivers who should get back into their SUV.

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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2017, 08:39:00 AM »
Definitely pretty! I often think a part of me wishes I had gone with a muscle car instead of the truck...

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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2017, 12:50:54 PM »
My High school car was a '66 powder blue, blk hard top, .289 engine, blue custom vinyl "Pony" interior I found on a car lot in '74 that had 32,000 miles on it. The car looked barely used and cost me only $600.

I had a new '85 too. The last year of the Holley.
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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2017, 04:22:35 PM »
My High school car was a '66 powder blue, blk hard top, .289 engine, blue custom vinyl "Pony" interior I found on a car lot in '74 that had 32,000 miles on it. The car looked barely used and cost me only $600.

I had a new '85 too. The last year of the Holley.

I had a 85 as well. I called it my pretend to be fast car.  :)
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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2017, 04:51:06 PM »
I've had a 67 Mustang, 68 Camaro, 73 Ventura, 77 TransAm TA6.6, Various trucks bikes and this little build...



75 Vega Station Wagon Estate, mounted on a 75 GMC Jimmy frame shortened with custom mounts, custom fuel tank and bumpers. It had a 350 in it that was turning a few more HP than cubic inches, 38.5 monster mudders, 3.73 gears front and back driven by a turbo 350 w/ 203 transfer case.

Yeah .. that's me in my younger days. Dont look quite as redneck as I do now though. 
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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2017, 06:35:16 PM »
I've had a 67 Mustang, 68 Camaro, 73 Ventura, 77 TransAm TA6.6, Various trucks bikes and this little build...



75 Vega Station Wagon Estate, mounted on a 75 GMC Jimmy frame shortened with custom mounts, custom fuel tank and bumpers. It had a 350 in it that was turning a few more HP than cubic inches, 38.5 monster mudders, 3.73 gears front and back driven by a turbo 350 w/ 203 transfer case.

Yeah .. that's me in my younger days. Dont look quite as redneck as I do now though.

You look sad. It must not have run well...... :old:  :)
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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2017, 09:16:40 AM »
You look sad. It must not have run well...... :old:  :)

It ran like a bat out of hell. That is on the road and in the mud. That look is my waiting on a girl look. That was taken by my Mother In Law in their driveway years ago.
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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2017, 12:17:34 PM »
Still very nice!
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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2017, 12:48:01 PM »
I had a 85 as well. I called it my pretend to be fast car.  :)

Hey 210 hp WAS hot back then. LOL
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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2017, 02:59:12 PM »
Nice Nypsy!

Here's my 2005 getting ready for a bath a couple of weeks ago

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Re: My eight year old Mustang
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2017, 04:10:56 PM »
Nice Mustangs guys.  We had a GT500 for a summer driving season a few years back, before my GF traded it on her GTR.  Now that the GTR is getting to be 7 years old she's been looking at new cars, including the new Mustangs, particularly the 350.  The last couple gens of Mustangs have been excellent IMO, from 2005 forward, really great cars for the $ depending on what you're doing and like.  Nice to hear about the long term reliability and longevity you guys are having with your Mustangs.

I remember the good old days in high school of the Mustang GT everyone wanted, mighty 210ish HP, which now the 4cyl turbos blow away.  Even with GM, my 97 and 2002 LT1 and LS1 Firebird and Camaro, their HP back then is outmatched by the V6 put into the rental car versions of the Camaro, big time.  Car tech is crazy now, and not just the HP, but the transmissions and chassis tech - dual clutch and CV trans, they are just nuts now.

We looked at the new Corvette Z51 and a Z06, and then the 350 (no R, the dealer can't get any, and there are only a few used 350R up here right now) - the Ford sound is amazing, better than any of the other cars IMO, Camaro, Vette, everything.   Only car that came close IMO was the Jaguar V8. 

This is the only 350R we can find in Alberta right now, and the seller is willing to come down a bit in $ as they want to move it, and if GF gets a good offer on her GTR, this might be coming home.  It's essentially new, less than 700 miles on it.

http://wwwb.autotrader.ca/a/Ford/Mustang/DE+WINTON/Alberta/19_10243980_/?ursrc=pl&urp=8&urm=9&showcpo=ShowCPO
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