Mom drove a white Mustang II with the blue stripes. Mom was the prescurser to Danica Patrick of the day.
She had over the years in the stable a vette, gto, mustang II, camaro, supra gt and a mercedes slk as her line up before she had to give up her keys due to age
You guys reminded me of a little story about my ex-wife I will share here. As I have stated before on this forum , I once built a 428 cobra jet and put it into a 1978 F-250 4x4 . The engine was .030 over which gave me 433 C I D. I put a hotter cam in it, had a factory aluminum intake that had port matching done to it , and a bit larger holly 4V carb.
The truck had 4.10:1 gearing with posi track and 4 speed truck transmission with granny low. Taking off from a dead stop in second gear it would smoke both rear tires all the way through 2nd and at least a truck length in 3rd gear. Now I get the truck running and the motor broke in and wife asks me if she can drive it to town to do some shopping so I let her. This is a Saturday and I had finished mowing so I was sitting under a shade tree drinking a glass of tea when I hear engine sounds of someone romping and stomping out on the highway. Several times I hear the motor slack off a down shift and they turn it loose again. All of a sudden they are slowing down with tires squalling and engine being down shifted , and here they come. Right down my road.
As they pop over the small hill I see it is my truck!.
I think there must be somebody after her for some reason so as she slides to a stop I am running towards her. She gets out and first words out of her mouth were , " Is there anything you can do to get more horsepower out of this engine?" I'm like yes but why would I want to do that , it's a truck.
Turns out that a young man in a GT 5 liter mustang was poking along and when the wife tried to pass he jumped on the go fast pedal and they both went up to speed. She told me she could get to his front fender but just didn't have anything left to go on around him. When traffic showed coming towards them she backed off and pulled behind him. That was what the downshifting was about. I asked her if she had any idea how fast she was going and she said nope but I wanted to go a little faster.
I found out later from a guy who knew the mustang owner that the mustang had a few different parts in the engine so it wasn't stock.
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