Make Way for Fresh Meat!
8/15/12, 07:50 PM
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Make Way for Fresh Meat!
Good evening, fellow Pony wranglers! My friends call me Mick (or other names less flattering), and I am pacing the floor like an expectant father as I await the arrival of my 2nd Mustang. The first one came on the scene before most of you were ever gleams in your daddies' eyes, and I have missed it since the day I traded it for the first new car I ever owned. Bad mistake; shoulda just kept it forever. Anyhoo, I couldn't even wait long enough to lurk this forum before joining, so now I'm gonna go off in a corner and do my homework, 'cause you guys, wittingly or otherwise, are going to help me determine what the ultimate incarnation of Mustang #2 (as opposed to Mustang II) will be. Please excuse in advance any dumb questions I will ask; I'm as low-tech as an 8# sledgehammer, and I haven't owned an automobile as my personal vehicle since 1975. Won't this be fun?
8/15/12, 08:31 PM
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Easy to choose, get the best Mustang ever made: Boss 302. Read the reviews, ask Ford, drive a Boss 302, easy choice.
Oops, profile says V6, thought you hadn't decided yet. With a V6, start with exhaust, and intake, get some more HP.
Oops, profile says V6, thought you hadn't decided yet. With a V6, start with exhaust, and intake, get some more HP.
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8/15/12, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Cranky Old Man
Easy to choose, get the best Mustang ever made: Boss 302. Read the reviews, ask Ford, drive a Boss 302, easy choice.
Oops, profile says V6, thought you hadn't decided yet. With a V6, start with exhaust, and intake, get some more HP.
Oops, profile says V6, thought you hadn't decided yet. With a V6, start with exhaust, and intake, get some more HP.
8/15/12, 08:47 PM
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Currently a Corvette Owner!
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Shelby, amazing, but $60k.
Boss, outstanding, but $45k.
GT, built right, excellent performance and value, $30k-$35k.
So...if you've got the cheese, go big. If you have to count your pennies, the GT is hands-down the best bang for the buck, IMO.
Enjoy, whatever you decide!
Shelby, amazing, but $60k.
Boss, outstanding, but $45k.
GT, built right, excellent performance and value, $30k-$35k.
So...if you've got the cheese, go big. If you have to count your pennies, the GT is hands-down the best bang for the buck, IMO.
Enjoy, whatever you decide!
8/15/12, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by PJRManagement
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Shelby, amazing, but $60k.
Boss, outstanding, but $45k.
GT, built right, excellent performance and value, $30k-$35k.
So...if you've got the cheese, go big. If you have to count your pennies, the GT is hands-down the best bang for the buck, IMO.
Enjoy, whatever you decide!
Shelby, amazing, but $60k.
Boss, outstanding, but $45k.
GT, built right, excellent performance and value, $30k-$35k.
So...if you've got the cheese, go big. If you have to count your pennies, the GT is hands-down the best bang for the buck, IMO.
Enjoy, whatever you decide!
Gt's are made to be modded. I've owned a half dozen GT's and modded the **** out of them and loved them. I bought a Shelby so I could pretty much leave it be and just enjoy the **** out of it and the Boss just looks clowny so that's enough said about that one.
8/16/12, 12:30 PM
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Thank you all for your kind welcoming remarks. I have a base level Mustang on order, with Performance Package and back-up alarm/safety pkg. as its only options. I would have loved to have dressed it up some more, but everything I wanted was part of some package deal, along with other options I did not want, to whatever degree. My intent is to pump the $$ I didn't give Ford back into aftermarket accessories that I actually want to make the coupe my very own. Is it just me, or do others feel that FoMoCo is not being responsive to its customers' wishes in this sense? I realize that their business plan, of which this is a part, is what kept Ford from having to hit Uncle Sugar up for a loan a couple years ago... but come on! I won't be driving a Grabber Blue pony, like I'd prefer-- why? 'Cause you can't get a "stone" interior with GB. Dammit, they make GB cars, and they make stone gray interiors which fit ALL those Mustangs; why is Charcoal my only option? I don't WANT Charcoal! I live in Indiana, where the temperature and the humidity both run into the 90's. Give me a light colored interior! Rant mode off... but only temporarily. 
8/16/12, 02:30 PM
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A Man Just Needs Some....
Originally Posted by Mickstang
Thank you all for your kind welcoming remarks. I have a base level Mustang on order, with Performance Package and back-up alarm/safety pkg. as its only options. I would have loved to have dressed it up some more, but everything I wanted was part of some package deal, along with other options I did not want, to whatever degree. My intent is to pump the $$ I didn't give Ford back into aftermarket accessories that I actually want to make the coupe my very own. Is it just me, or do others feel that FoMoCo is not being responsive to its customers' wishes in this sense? I realize that their business plan, of which this is a part, is what kept Ford from having to hit Uncle Sugar up for a loan a couple years ago... but come on! I won't be driving a Grabber Blue pony, like I'd prefer-- why? 'Cause you can't get a "stone" interior with GB. Dammit, they make GB cars, and they make stone gray interiors which fit ALL those Mustangs; why is Charcoal my only option? I don't WANT Charcoal! I live in Indiana, where the temperature and the humidity both run into the 90's. Give me a light colored interior! Rant mode off... but only temporarily.
Oh, and welcome to the site.
8/16/12, 06:36 PM
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Al, while my dealer was most sympathetic to my whining, he offered no hope that Ford would bend the rules to placate me, so... I ordered the Sterling Gray with Stone interior, you betcha, and I plan to distribute some of the wealth locally at a top-notch upholsterer's biz here in town. Since Sterling Gray with all the accompanying black tends to fade into the background, I thought to introduce a little red here and there for effect, and just to help make it MY car. Did you see the pics posted by "Myponyand me" in her recent intro thread? I loved the seats in her car! (Sweet ride, MP&M!) Anyway, I just think it's a dirty shame that we are willing to spend thousands of dollars on a vehicle knowing that we can't have it just the way we want it. And I remember back in the day when you COULD. (Before the inception of "Value Packages") 
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