Thanks everyone for your enthusiastic posts.

Another wonderful dividend you receive when you get your Mustang is that you start enjoying places that you otherwise would not have travelled to.

My wife and I took a drive up to see the Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay in Redding, California. What a great day! It was warm enough to try out our Mustang's air conditioning. Having a black convertible top may have helped to warm us up.

Our Mustang seats were very comfortable for the trip. What a great ride. One little problem though ... it's difficult to keep the speed down. It was really easy to get it up to 80 mph without thinking about it. I had to make myself back off on the throttle a couple of times.

Someday when you drive your Mustang to Northern California, I think you will enjoy the Redding and Mt. Shasta areas.

Here are some URLs with pictures of the Sundial Bridge and one for Mt. Shasta.

http://www.visitredding.org/sundial.cfm

http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6090740-1.html


http://www.shastalake.com/sundialbridge/night/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial..._at_Turtle_Bay


http://www.mtshastaphotos.org/

 

Oh yea! 80 is a comfortable speed for these cars

 

Thanks GRAYPNY. That was great fun dropping by your house for the show and tell on your GRAYPNY while I was waiting for our Mustang.

Enjoyed watching yours and Shatter's terrific video again. Yours and Shatter's gray ponies are beauties.

We're really loving driving our new pony. Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing ya on the street soon.

 

looking good there Ed!!!!

 

I couldn't agree more. BTW....congrats Ed....beautiful stang!

 

Great car and pics! Congrats!!


Hop on over and make some posts in the REDFIRE section

 

Welcome to the Redfire club! Your interior also looks just like mine. Except of course my top doesn't go down!!

 

Glad you're enjoying the mustang Nice car btw. I just drove my car last weekend to Lake Tahoe which was a good drive. I should of adjusted my seat though because my lower back was soar. 3 1/2 hour drive with out stopping gets kinda tiring, especially since it was a one day trip .

 

Thanks Sal.

Yes, Lake Tahoe is a great ride. Reading your post makes me want to head up that way again. I'm looking forward to driving our Mustang on some curvy mountain roads to see how she handles.

I'm going to try to avoid driving on snowy roads with our Mustang though. I'm guessing you didn't have any problems with snow on the roads with the unusually dry weather we've been having.

My wife and I both have cranky backs too. So now on long drives we pull over if only for a couple of minutes to stretch. Then we adjust the seats to a different postion. Doing this has helped our backs feel much better. I don't worry about losing time; I'm not in a hurry just because I'm driving fast.

 

Definitely love that combo! Nice!

 

A buddy of mine and I went on a 6 hr road trip one day and only stopped once (for gas). After arriving at our location, he goes "This is the most comfortable car EVER!!!" haha. He's a "bow-tie" enthusiast so it was nice for a GM guy admitting a FORD was better haha.

 

enjoy!!!

 

Yeah, Tahoe was a great drive, But since it was a one day trip we left SF at 6:30 am and arrived around 9:30 am. Did some saucering and tubbing and came back around 4:30 arrived around 8:00 pm that same day. I was beat. Luckly I didnt have any trouble with snow in the road, It was unussually dry. Great part was when little kids standing around there parents tahoe with there mouth wide open starring at my car as I pass them by. Girlfriend was asking why are they starring at us, HAHA. Was great man. What part of Northern California are you from BTW?

 

Yeah, Im gonna have to spend my time this weekend trying to adjust it. What I hate the most of the seat is the lumbar and the Foward head rest. But I'm sure with some proper adjusting I will be fine. Have just under 15,000 miles on it and havently really played around with it too much.

 

Sounds like you and your girlfriend had a great time. I'm in Chico now. But I graduated from Mills High School in Millbrae which isn't all that far away from where you live in SF. Until I was almost 21 and joined the Air Force I had lived in Millbrae, Burlingame, San Mateo, and Menlo Park. That was a long time ago.

One route we like to take to Lake Tahoe takes us through or near Oroville, Grass Valley, Nevada City, Truckee, then south to Tahoe City. Kind of a nice drive. If we're going to South Lake Tahoe with more hotels and casinos we'll drive southeast until we hit US-50 and follow it until we turn off for Stateline.

My wife and I like to get down to San Francisco every once in a while. We like to stay in Tiburon and then take a ferry over to Fisherman's wharf. We've enjoyed some great walks thru the City.

Saw the Rolling Stones where the Giants play ball at AT&T Park in November of 2005. What a great night that was! Warm, full moon over the bay, the Stones were great ... what a high.

 

The more things change the more they stay the same. I saw my Stones concert some thirty years before in the summer of '75 at the old Cleveland Indians stadium overlooking Lake Erie.

from the rocket ranch

BB

Semper Fi

 

Yeah living in the bay is great. Too bad I'm always consumed with school and work to enjoy the city. I try to but not as much as I would like too.