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by **fiestasiphil** on Sun Aug 10, 2014 9:38 am

Yep ive finally done it and bought my dream car

when i was 12 (15 years ago) i bought the world car guide 1999 and saw a 1999 mustang gt in it and fell in love with it and my dream car has never changed since

ive been on the look out for this particular shape for sometime and after some asking about on the mustang forums a guy from swindon said he had a 2003 mustang gt manual he was looking to sell it, it had only covered 6,900 miles from new and has it imported from atlanta georgia and was a rare manual model, so last saturday i drove down there in the si to take a look and i loved it

Heres some pics of the mustang back in 2003 in atlanta before being exported

the reasons why it had only covered very little miles was the owner was a pilot and he hoped to use the mustang more than what he did but ended up living more in the states than the uk

But it had been left outside unused at a airbase for a long time so mould started growing on it and he decided it was time to sell and let the mustang get used......so i bought it

Its so original its still on the original tyres

heres the pics

When i bought it

Then getting it on my mates truck as it had no tax or mot

Bullitt alloys

interior

It was filthy so before i started work on monday morning i got up early and had to clean it

It passed the mot on tuesday but developed a misfire fire which ended up being cylinder 5 coil pack so i ordered one from my local motor factors for a mg zt 260 as i knew it had the same engine as the mustang and would be easier to find parts for it 8-)

Fitted some new 12x6 plates for it although im not sure how legal they are :look:

future plans for it are to lower it and stiffen up the suspension with some bigger sway bars/anti roll bars to you and me :lol:

and a strut brace altho ive got to be careful with my wallet as 14mpg isnt ideal :lol:

and after some practice it does standing still burnouts with ease :lol:

and it really shifts

Will get some engine bay pics soon

it has criuse control, air conditioning, mach 1, 6 cd auto charger with built in sub, electric windows and mirrors, full leather and remote locking

i love it

by **mikeymikeyp** on Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:09 pm

Thats nice mate

by **Maxwell** on Sun Aug 10, 2014 6:03 pm

Niiice. Love the colour.

I have myself a nice LHD American Ford too - 1985 Merkur XR4Ti. (Pics of it with my cossie)

by **Excursion** on Sun Aug 10, 2014 7:13 pm

Really pleased for you Phil as I know you've always wanted one, and what an example you've found!

by **slaney21** on Sun Aug 10, 2014 10:57 pm

Very nice and extrenely jealous!! Always loved mustangs since seeing them when living in oman in 1998 (the ones with the slits in the rear lights)

Will be checking back periodically.

by **slaney21** on Wed Aug 13, 2014 2:38 pm

Wearing this today and thought you might be interested. Got it from asda about 2 weeks ago. Genuine ford and only £8

by **fiestasiphil** on Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:12 am

slaney21 :Wearing this today and thought you might be interested. Got it from asda about 2 weeks ago. Genuine ford and only £8

Love it mate might have to check it out

Got an update on the stang last night my mate looked at the brakes and found that the sliders were dry causing the front brakes to bind so he freed them up and the wheels are nice and free now but the pads are very worn so im going to replace them in a few weeks time

The car feels so much quicker now the brakes are sorted shoild improve my mpg slightly :lol:

gave the car a well deserved clean today heres some pics

Also fitted new plates as the anpr camera at work wasnt reading them so thought id best change them

oh and with it being a mustang i couldnt resist but do a burnout lol :lol:

Its on youtube heres the link

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwgTfNMJDt4

by **fiestasiphil** on Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:19 am

update on the Mustang

Got in a bit of trouble with the law back in late October for being a holigan...basically i left work and decided to show a mate what the Mustang could do so at a set of traffic lights i decided to smoke it through 1st and into 2nd thinking no more of it....but the stupid thing is...i didnt look in my rear view mirror when i did it and there was a massive marked police van behind me i got tugged and given a warning

Then a month later i went to a paul walker memorial meet in royston cambridge and then we went on a tunnel run with a 2013 Mustang boss 302 and a early 70s chevrolet corvette which was pretty cool...we ended up in southend and i met a few other Mustang owners which was awesome and at 2am i decided to leave there was a lot of people doing burnouts and a load of people saying burnout....i couldnt resist ...and well yeah.... i got caught

fined £100 for the reg plates as they didnt meet dvla requirements and had to pay £100 to go on a driver improvement course which was terrible as i only went to this a couple of weeks ago and everyone who was there was there because they crashed badly except me....burnout :lol:

Anyway the Mustang it needed new brake pads so i bought and set fitted them and then realised the wheel wouldnt move...i out the old ones back on and spoke to a american car specialist down the road from me and a common fault with the calipers on the 99-04 mustangs where they distort and would need replacing...got a few prices and thought whats the point on getting standard ones...so i spent £500 on a full ford Mustang cobra front brake set up with braided hoses

they feel sooo much better

Also have got some cj pony 1.5" lowering springs about 38mm to you and i, do should get the stang sitting nicely also the Mustangs are hard to get the alignment back in spec after lowering so i also bought some camber castor plates to solve this...havent fitted any of them yet but hopefully within the next month

Also bought new tyres all round as the old ones were 12 years old and perishing badly so i thought id do a few more burnouts and get my burnouts worth out of them down a quiet industrial estate with no cops in site this time