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Ford built a ton of Mustangs. And a lot of them didn’t meet our needs.
For this SCCA Club Spec Mustang build, we needed a 2005-’09 Ford Mustang GT. Hardtop. With a stick shift.
[Love at First Drive: The SCCA Club Spec Mustang class]
We put our top man on the case, Publisher Emeritus Tim Suddard, as he’d been working with Mustangs since before most of us were born.
What’d he find out there in the market? Lots of rats. Lots of automatics. Lots of modified cars.
Adding to the search challenges, we also wanted a silver, white or red car to better work with the GRM colors. We also wanted to take ownership before the upcoming PRI Show–you know, to show potential partners and friends in the biz.
Low-mileage cars that meet our desires usually had asking prices in the mid to upper teens, while high-mileage examples were listed down near $6000 or $7000.
Time to narrow down things a bit. We didn’t need the nicest Mustang out there. We simply wanted one that we’d call good enough as paint and body work can quickly get expensive–ditto major driveline work.
We looked at a local car advertised for $11,000 that sounded promising. It had the right specs but was filthy and worn-out.
Longtime $2000 Challenge entrant Jeremy Randolph then turned us onto a car that looked good on paper: a 2006 Mustang GT Premium Coupe with the five-speed box.
We asked Rennie of Redline Bimmers, an old friend, to put some local eyes on it. It was as advertised, he said.
Sold.
Now to get it home and see what we really bought.
A few more photos from the listing:
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