Pride of being a Mustang owner

Before I got my very first car I always dreamed of being the proud driver of a near mint condition 69 camaro or restoring my uncle's 67 Chevelle and cruising up and down the local strip with all eyes on me. Well, unfortunately sometimes your dreams only go as far as a junior in High School's cash flow situation. My first car ended up being a crap brown 73 Nova. It was literally half bondo with baby moons and a bench seat. It did have a strong running 350 though, with a Budweiser beer can coil cover! Anyway since then many cars have come and gone, some loved and some hated. And now I am the proud owner of a Zinc yellow 2001 Mustang GT. Through the six years of ownership with the help of family and friends I've installed Hooker long tube headers and x pipe, flowmaster cat back, Richmond 373 gears, MGW shifter, 75 mm throttle body and plenum with a cold air intake provided by JLT. Installing the headers was a son of a bitch due to having to disconnect the motor mounts and lower the motor just to access the bolts that held on the piece of crap manifolds that some emissions expert with a media arts degree designed. Since I had to take off the factory A-arms and drop the K-member I figured what the hell and decided to order a light weight tubular front suspension kit from UPR. It wasn't the most expensive kit out there but having just dropped close to a grand on exhaust I didn't have a whole lot of funds to contribute. At any rate the UPR kit is exponentially better than the close to 70lb hunk of metal that's laying in my back yard. Well now my car is lowered 2 inches in the front and 1 in the back and carries one hell of a tone. In my opinion there isn't a late model car that sounds as sweet as a Mustang with a good exhaust system. Along with this...every mustang out there has it's own unique sound, it' s own personality if you catch what I am sayin. And they haul ass! Now I'm not going to sit here and say that mustangs rule the road because I know from experience that Camaros and Firebirds with LS 1 350's have a lot more horse power. And a few other things they have a lot more of is problems. I used to have a Trans Am and every time I slammed on the gas the rear end sounded like it was going to come flying through the trunk and right up into our laps. I used to keep a box of all the parts of interior that seemed to fall off about once a week. Hell I couldn't even honk the horn because both buttons fell off! What a piece of shit that car was! The only problem I have with my Mustang is keeping the power to the ground. 70,000 miles and counting , not once has it been in a shop or out of commission. So, whenever I am asked the question Mustang or Camaro? Ford or Chevy? It's Ford Mustang all the way baby!