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THE MUSTANG SOURCE 20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY FORUM! 1-29-2004 / 1-29-2024Celebrating 20 Years of The Mustang Source and It's Members Who Hit 20 Years of Membership!
There have been a lot of great times and it doesn't go without saying I appreciate all fellow members putting up with me. Thanks a million!
Glad You Came In I Was Starting To Wonder About You! I Guess You Really Nailed It Back in The Day with The {1} In Your Screen Name! Both 1 Bullitt and 1 Cobra!
A Little Side Story, Bill Had Done a Driveshaft Install Back in the Day and I Used The Link Years Later To Help a Single Mother Do A Repair Herself on Her Only Source of Transportation! Just Shows The Value of Some of The Old Legacy Posts!
Been quite a while since last visiting TMS. Just to catch everyone up here, I no longer have the 06 Torch Red, had to let her go due to personal reasons.
Current Mustangs I have now are a 2008 GT and a 2021 GT. Feel free to follow me on Instagram at tacobill_mustang. I keep this account pretty active.
Good times here, take care everyone!
Wow, class of 2005. Time is flying. Traded the Lime Gold 05 GT 4.6 5spd in for a Lightning Blue 2017 GT 5.0 6spd with performance package. So much better in build quality for nvh, performance and ride than the 05 was. The 05 had the first model year build blues.
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Originally Posted by TacoBill
Been quite a while since last visiting TMS. Just to catch everyone up here, I no longer have the 06 Torch Red, had to let her go due to personal reasons.
Current Mustangs I have now are a 2008 GT and a 2021 GT. Feel free to follow me on Instagram at tacobill_mustang. I keep this account pretty active.
Good times here, take care everyone!
Glad you're doing well and are okay, Bill... Us old timers really miss your very informative, step-by-step write-ups and just shooting the breeze with you... Meanwhile, if you get a free moment, I'm sure we all would really enjoy seeing some pics of your current 2008 and 2021 Mustang GT along with any mod upgrades that you may have added... In the meantime, don't be stranger and hope to see you from time to time, just to catch up and perhaps reminisce some of the good ole days here on TMS...
Wow! Time sure does fly! Can't believe it's 16 years since I joined this site. Still got my 94 GT, but it's been down since it got flooded after hurricane Maria. Still a work in progress. Pic of the add I first saw it. Back when it got painted. Repaired after a front end accident. A few years back when I fixed the overheating issues. As it sits now with new headlights.
I'd say you recent guys that were here before to post your current car?
Mine is a 2019 Mustang ShelbyGT350 that I ordered new:
Just asking..
I see some old Mustang guys running around in an EV? You lost that lovimg feeling?
20 Year Actual Members As of Date!
1Cobra 1/29/04
houtex 2/2/04
Tony Alonso 2/8/04
95cobraR 4/24/04
unnoticedtrails 4/27/04
You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking
Coming Up, November 27Th 2004 20 Years Ago Was The Day I Took Delivery of My Then New 2005 Mustang GT and Also The Day I Signed Up on The Mustang Source!
I Had Been Lurking a Few Months Trying To Find Out Anything on The New Model! Little Did I Know I Would Become a Source of Information on Advance Models & Changes Back in the Day! A Back Door Corporate Ford Parts Catalog Was A Tattle Tale if You Knew How To Look! The Members Loved Getting The Latest & Greatest Info First!
I Was Looking For The Mid-Life Change Vehicle in a Harley V-Rod! Luckily I Went For a Mustang Instead! With My Later Health Issues a Bike Would not Have Worked Out!
A Lot of History and Water Under The Bridge! We Have Members These Days Who Not Even Born Yet When TMS Started!
As Still Active Members Get To The 20 Year Mark Please Feel Free To Do a Post and Tell a Little Story!
Time flies like a Mustang! I’d be Interested of how many still have their same Mustang from then.
Still have mine. Lots of go fast stuff since, but she’s still here and faithful as ever! Just recently flipped 90k on the odo.
hey John,
just flipping thru here saw your post from a year ago- Still got mine too, not a lot of go fast goodies, but lots of time on it at test/tune and autocross, last year my youngest son who came along over 2 years after getting the 06, was 2 days into driving stick, 3 days into his license, out at autocross in it I remember your car and mine were close VIN-wise, made within a day or three of each other... man how time flies, glad to see you still have yours too- still the best car ive ever had... i'm at 105,000 on my 06. wifes got around 30,000 on her 07, and my 09 is still undriven, ticked off another tenth last time moved out of the garage, now at 5.5 miles...its turned int a white elephant, hope it winds up on a museum someday...the plastic fell off the wheel and the seat plastics deteriorating, other than that, oil changes, batteries its same as day flatbedded here... was gonna be 'my next new car' bought early after hating the changes to the '10 model, but now, think the 06 will likely outlast me, and doubt theres many other undriven base gts left, if any...was a stupid buy, but loved the 06 so much, wanted a time capsule 'reset' if needed...
these forums back in the day were so cool... from Kzinti over at blue oval helping track- and his awesome help calming me down a bit when the car hauler smashed my first one at delivery, the ERL tracking phone number that had us all memorizing our vins/order numbers for weeks or months...never been so excited about anything in my life...think a lot of us saw these as 'more than a car' from day one, and cool we were able to get them, hang onto them, have them as 'part of the family' thru a major part of our lives...
hers a pic of the 'old' 06 with my youngest son behind the wheel- it made him a better driver than most within a week of getting his license- knowing time/place for everythings kept him from speeding/doing stupid stuff on the streets i did at that age, and has been fun out with him and my second oldest out at autocross as a family fun day thing...this year my oldest wants to give it a try too- he will probably use the 06 also, i'm still a little worried about putting them in the challenger, its pretty nimble for a barge, but the loud pedal can get you sideways easier than the mustang...ive got huge 275-50-17 rears on the mustang, rides soft, and throttle oversteer is extremely gentle, even if cornering like a bus...made sliding smoothly around easy even for my slow/old reflexes... had low profile 18s on it for a year and the step out was so violently quick (to me- i'm getting old/slow), i went home from the track several times with grass and mud all over...with the taller tires, it slides with the throttle ever so smoothly...
Anyways, glad to see you still have yours, these are really great cars
