donsrods
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For a little while now my Son Dan has been talking about getting something fun to drive on a once in a while/ daily basis. He has his Ram pickup and his hot rod, but he wanted something that was a normal sort of car, but fun.
Wednesday night, my two Sons and I were at the shop, doing nothing special, just hanging out with each other and drinking a few beers, and Dan was playing on the computer. He came out and said he had found a low mileage 2004 Mustang Mach I on Ebay that he was thinking of buying. He asked Don and I what we thought, and Don said " You really don't think you are going to get a sensible answer from Dad and me, do you ?"
Of course we told him to do it, you only live once.
Long story short, he called the owner who said it was garage kept it's whole life, had two owners, and only had 40,000 miles on it. It was his toy and he only put 6,000 miles on it in the 4 years he had owned it. Better yet, it was bone stock, no modifications at all, except for Flowmasters. So, Dan bought it ! [cl
Then he said it was near Philadelphia, and that he was going to fly up Friday and drive it back. My response..........."I'm going too!" We got up at 3:30 Friday morning, caught a 6:00 flight to Philadelphia, rented a car, and went to see it. The car was absolutely mint, no alterations, not a scratch, and it ran like a clock. Car had never seen snow or rain either. Even the underside still has white paint on it.
We went to the local tag office, transferred the title, threw our stuff in the Mustang, and returned the rental car. By 4 PM we were on I95 and headed back home. Traffic was horrible, Friday at rush hour, and it took us forever to get out of Philadelphia. But by midnight traffic had slowed down, and we were making pretty good time on our 1150 mile return drive home.
We drove straight through, only stopping for gas and some McDonalds food, and we finally picked up my car at the airport at 3 pm today...........35 hours after getting up Friday, and we had not slept in all that time ! He would drive for a few hours while I tried to sleep, but I could never doze off, and neither could he.
Would I do it again ? Heck yeah, it was a great trip, but I came home and basically passed out for about 5 hours. We got to see some pretty fall colors that we never see in Florida, and driving his new car was a blast. It never missed a beat, but it was fun rowing that 5 speed through stop and go traffic for hours on end.
Here are some pictures of what we saw, didn't get many more, we were too busy driving and it got dark at 5 pm in Philadelphia.
This is where the guy lives, in West Chester, Pa. It was gorgeous up there.
This was the only sight we saw for the 22 hour drive back home: Could not have survived without the GPS and radar detector.
And here is Dan's new car. He is at the shop right now, getting the bugs and dirt off of it. By now he hasn't slept in over 40 hours, but he doesn't seem to mind.
Don
Wednesday night, my two Sons and I were at the shop, doing nothing special, just hanging out with each other and drinking a few beers, and Dan was playing on the computer. He came out and said he had found a low mileage 2004 Mustang Mach I on Ebay that he was thinking of buying. He asked Don and I what we thought, and Don said " You really don't think you are going to get a sensible answer from Dad and me, do you ?"
Of course we told him to do it, you only live once.Long story short, he called the owner who said it was garage kept it's whole life, had two owners, and only had 40,000 miles on it. It was his toy and he only put 6,000 miles on it in the 4 years he had owned it. Better yet, it was bone stock, no modifications at all, except for Flowmasters. So, Dan bought it ! [cl
Then he said it was near Philadelphia, and that he was going to fly up Friday and drive it back. My response..........."I'm going too!" We got up at 3:30 Friday morning, caught a 6:00 flight to Philadelphia, rented a car, and went to see it. The car was absolutely mint, no alterations, not a scratch, and it ran like a clock. Car had never seen snow or rain either. Even the underside still has white paint on it.
We went to the local tag office, transferred the title, threw our stuff in the Mustang, and returned the rental car. By 4 PM we were on I95 and headed back home. Traffic was horrible, Friday at rush hour, and it took us forever to get out of Philadelphia. But by midnight traffic had slowed down, and we were making pretty good time on our 1150 mile return drive home.
We drove straight through, only stopping for gas and some McDonalds food, and we finally picked up my car at the airport at 3 pm today...........35 hours after getting up Friday, and we had not slept in all that time !
He would drive for a few hours while I tried to sleep, but I could never doze off, and neither could he.Would I do it again ? Heck yeah, it was a great trip, but I came home and basically passed out for about 5 hours. We got to see some pretty fall colors that we never see in Florida, and driving his new car was a blast. It never missed a beat, but it was fun rowing that 5 speed through stop and go traffic for hours on end.
Here are some pictures of what we saw, didn't get many more, we were too busy driving and it got dark at 5 pm in Philadelphia.
This is where the guy lives, in West Chester, Pa. It was gorgeous up there.
This was the only sight we saw for the 22 hour drive back home: Could not have survived without the GPS and radar detector.
And here is Dan's new car. He is at the shop right now, getting the bugs and dirt off of it. By now he hasn't slept in over 40 hours, but he doesn't seem to mind.
Don
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