“YO, I WANT YOUR CAR”
This is just a fact – when you drive a classic mustang– people look. You could be driving ANY OTHER CAR, worth waaaaaayyy more, and people might look, they might not. When was the last time your head turned for a regular common car? Who cares! ( Sorry, they all look the same with few exceptions). Classic Mustangs have charisma and people love to oogle and admire and they somehow want to be part of what they see. It’s the nostalgia, the sound of the engine, everything.
The kind of looks you get driving in a Classic Mustang are the “take your glasses off and turn around as it goes by” look. I have gotten free valet parking! Do you think they give someone with a Ferrari “free” valet parking? I often get my car put right in front of the establishment I am visiting, they don’t even put it in the back lot. ( Thank god because its hard for me to relax thinking about it even though it has a bitchin’ alarm system). I always have people ask me about it. In fact, sometimes I DO NOT drive it because I need a break from the attention.
The bottom line is - Classic Mustangs RULE, and I think everyone wants one either secretly or openly.
OK. So here is what is funny about people: When I am driving in traffic and stopped at a light – people look, ok, guys usually because they are more car oriented check stuff out. Often – they stop so they are in line with the car to get a closer look. The confident ones – HONK sometimes, but always look over and give a thumbs up and say I LOVE YOUR CAR!!!!!! Or “HEY NICE RIDE!”.
I always wave, IT MAKES MY DAY. BUT sometimes people pull up next to you and just sit there twitching nervously!!!! I know why their sweating – they hear the 289 V8 pumping and panting and it gets to ya. BUT if your gonna stare, and you know you WANT to say something – LET IT OUT. JUST SAY IT. SAY – “YOUR CAR RULES”. “I WANT YOUR CAR”. “THAT IS SO DAMN COOL”.
I will wave at you and give you a thumbs up. JUST FOR SAYING IT.
Don’t be an inhibited sweaty palmed nerd – relax, shout out and PARTY ON!!!
Better yet – GET A CLASSIC MUSTANG, then I will be lookin’ at YOU!
Natasha
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Here’s some autographs you might sign:
Here is the 1967 Speedracer Mach 5, which has the status of being the “most famous race car in the world” because of the cartoon series. Speed Racer Motors has unveiled plans to build a Signature Series of 100 road-ready Mach 5’s numbered and signed by Peter Fernandez, the voice actor and creative force behind the Speed Racer cartoons. The roadsters will feature a 5. 7 liter, 385 horsepower V8 engine mounted in the front. Hopefully they will also come with a brilliant form of radar detection.
Here is the 1957 Studebaker Astral. This full- size mockup was constructed to suggest how an atomic- powered vehicle might actually be packaged. A balancing mechanism was to have enabled it to rest on one centrally located wheel although it would also have been able to hover at low altitudes over land or water. A “protective curtain of energy” around the vehicle would have reportedly made collisions impossible. Since nuclear reactors were difficult to engineer, extremely expensive and dangerous to handle, just two full size atomic-powered vehicles were ever built, this car and the French Symmetric but neither has been fitted with their atomic power system yet. Since this idea began in 1957 and it’s now 2008 I’d say it’s time for them to step it up. Chop Chop. We are overdue. And, if they could make it look more like a 1965 Mustang that would be great.
Here is Art Arfons Green Monster ( born February 3rd, 1926 in Akron, Ohio. I am only writing this because it is sort of funny, that Art Arfons was born in Akron). Art Arfons was the world land speed holder three times in 1964 – 1965 with his Green Monster series of jet powered cars, after a series of Green Monster piston engine and jet engined dragsters. If you hold the world land speed record three times and you make cars that look like that, you qualify as a Superhero.
The Fabulous Hudson Hornet was a famous NASCAR Grand National ( now Sprint Cup) and AAA stock car produced by the Hudson Motor company. Marshall Teague and Herb Thomas each drove in a Hudson Hornet which they called the “Fabulous Hudson Hornet”.Marshall Teague was a ballsy fellow. He flew to Michigan and walked into the Hudson Motor Car Company without an appointment; by the end of his visit he had acquired the Hudson Motors agreement of corporate support and cars. – Superhero.
What is YOUR superpower? I think everybody has one, some people have a few.
