outdoorstom

I live in a small community where an '05 is noticed by everyone. Almost daily someone tells me "I saw you driving downtown yesterday", "I saw your car in the parking lot at the store", etc. I've come to the conclusion the '05 would make a lousy getaway car if I ever decide to rob a bank.

pitpup

Hey, hey, hey. Let's leave the highway robberies to the Ford dealers charging $5k over MSRP!

Burke0011

You probably couldn't be more right Tom!

Small towns are always very unique and self contained....

Funny - there are a lot more 05s hitting the streets down here lately..... so things were finally calming down in terms of folks stopping me or going out of their way to comment on the car every two days....


Then I upgraded the Dark Knight 2 to the Mark II version....


(which is still in progress - Eibach springs, SS ducktail, Gen 2 louvers to come by end of august <shameless plug>...)

I'll tell you, it is back like it was when I first got the car in Dec if not worse.... the RK Sport hood really grabs 'em..... I get comments at lights and out on the road all the time....

The other night I was driving home past midnight on a Sat.... guy in a beat up mini van and his lady pull up next to me while we are doing 40, BEEPING his horn with the window down and trying to talk to me about how great the car looks... THEN he asks me 'Is that the new Cobra?'

I almost said yes for the heck of it.......

Better yet - the other day, two guys in an import with a noise maker and custom exhaust pull into my apt development - I hear them getting loose out by the gate so I am like 'Alright - young guys playing around - whatever'

I am backed into the garage with the passenger door open getting groceries out and these guys crusie by the open garage door... through his open window I hear the driver say "OH poo!!" and lean hard on his brakes - throws it into reverse, backs up in front of my driveway, and starts going off -

"That hood is DOPE man.... that thing is BAD.... that's the BEST 05 I have seen man... I do NOT drive Fords bro - no way - but I would DRIVE that car!"

mr-mstng

cyoon

Dave,

Wow, I really love your car. Especially the hood. If I owned it, I'd geek out and install dual leds to simulate the Knightrider car in the scoops. God I'm so geeked out over the idea! The kid in me would love it.

outdoorstom

Great stories Dave!

Fordracing200

In my town, years ago, the sherrif robbed the bank

outdoorstom

Was he driving a Mustang?

bigfoot1141

I was stopped at a light today and someguy driving a Chevy minivan was making a left up the street. I had pulled a little over the line because the light had changed quickly and I didn't want to run through a bad intersection and get hit. He pulled up next to me as he was about to pass and I thought he was going to give me some grief because I was pulled so far ahead of the line. Instead he stops next to me and says "you have the nicest car on the road". Took me by surprise. I said "thank you" and he was off. Seems like no matter what anyone is driving, they seem to always stop and say something nice about the car.

Pitch Black

I feel ya bro.. I live in a small town where very few is bought and my sister is the manager at pizza hut and we'll anytiem a cop sees me going a tad bit fast or the ems sees me going or the local gas station they call and tell my sister to jump my but i gotta go outta the county to do anything.

Fordracing200

hahaha

Dan

Tom, I heard you were driving a bit fast yesterday all the way up here........ take it easy cowboy.

outdoorstom

No Dan, I wasn't driving that Air France plane that over shot the runway!

GhostTX

Sorta same situation...even though I live in the big city, I've got the only Mustang GT in my immediate neighborhood/area.

They've finished pouring concrete into this new subdivision and I so badly want to practice/run it up on those loooong (tad over 1/4mi) streets they just made. Straight, open, tons of visibility...but alas...I'd be easily pegged.

outdoorstom

I've decided to rent something non-descript like a GTO or Charger if I ever need to go incognito.

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Mike06_10pm

LOL the GTO and Charger joke is one of the funnier things ive read in a while
-mike

Fordracing200

hahaha, i agree about the gto thing, haha

Fordracing200

wait a second, where in upstate NY do you live?

Kellarina

Haha, I work at a bank, and everyone tells me if we ever get robbed they'll be taking my car as the getaway. But it's Torch Red. They'd stick out like a sore thumb.