A sharp left turn to our day!

Ronni

Ronni

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Nashville TN
Our day Saturday started out with painting, and shopping and cooking for Easter, and working on the porch and yard. And then I blinked and next thing I know we’re heading back from Paducah Kentucky with this!! 🤷‍♀️ 😳 🤦🏼‍♀️

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It’s a Mustang GT convertible. Turbo. 5 speed. Back in ‘66, when Ron was in his late 20s, he bought one brand new...it was his first ever brand new car. He’s wanted another mustang ever since.

I knew he’d been browsing. But he’s such a gear head, and is always browsing cars and bikes for sale so I didn’t give it any thought till around midday he casually mentioned how about we “go for a little drive.”

Um....what? I’d just gotten back from doing the food shopping for Easter and changed into my painting clothes to tackle a section of kitchen that we were going to paint before I got rolling on the cooking for Easter.

The “little drive” was a 2.5 hour road trip to Kentucky where the car was being sold!! But it was an amazing deal and it made Ron SO happy, so what could I do?? 🤷‍♀️ The food could get cooked later. So off we went!! He’s wiped that thing down so many times already there won’t be any paint left soon!’😂💕
 

Awesome!!!!
The 1964 Worlds Fair was in Flushing,NY and Ford had a pavilion there,there was this thing,probably very high tech at that time,that let you get in a car,which was moving along a conveyor belt type of setup with scenes on a picture screen.
The next one up was a 64 Mustang,white,convertible,with red leather interior,cousin and I jumped in...
I fell in love with those cars that day but have never owned one.
Best of luck with it!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Well, we all know what he did with his stimulus check :ROFLMAO:
Put the top down, jump in, and take it for a breezy
Sunday afternoon drive in the country...FUN!
 
Ronni said:
Our day Saturday started out with painting, and shopping and cooking for Easter, and working on the porch and yard. And then I blinked and next thing I know we’re heading back from Paducah Kentucky with this!! 🤷‍♀️ 😳 🤦🏼‍♀️

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It’s a Mustang GT convertible. Turbo. 5 speed. Back in ‘66, when Ron was in his late 20s, he bought one brand new...it was his first ever brand new car. He’s wanted another mustang ever since.

I knew he’d been browsing. But he’s such a gear head, and is always browsing cars and bikes for sale so I didn’t give it any thought till around midday he casually mentioned how about we “go for a little drive.”

Um....what? I’d just gotten back from doing the food shopping for Easter and changed into my painting clothes to tackle a section of kitchen that we were going to paint before I got rolling on the cooking for Easter.

The “little drive” was a 2.5 hour road trip to Kentucky where the car was being sold!! But it was an amazing deal and it made Ron SO happy, so what could I do?? 🤷‍♀️ The food could get cooked later. So off we went!! He’s wiped that thing down so many times already there won’t be any paint left soon!’😂💕
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Fabulous car, fabulous story. You might smile when I tell you that I bought a dream car. Mine was a Bentley, not new of course, goodness me, a new one can set you back a quarter of a million, no, this one was new in 2003. What was I thinking of? Probably the Bentleys of the pre-war era, mine is a deep green after all. The car, new, was well over a six figure sum, but if you think that I have a bargain, just remember, spares, repairs and fuel all cost a King's ransom. none the less, we both love our Bentley and, I am almost, but not quite, ashamed to say, that the kudos of parking it in the supermarket parking lot, takes some beating. (I can beat it that's why I have a vintage MG.)
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Ronni said:
Our day Saturday started out with painting, and shopping and cooking for Easter, and working on the porch and yard. And then I blinked and next thing I know we’re heading back from Paducah Kentucky with this!! 🤷‍♀️ 😳 🤦🏼‍♀️

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It’s a Mustang GT convertible. Turbo. 5 speed. Back in ‘66, when Ron was in his late 20s, he bought one brand new...it was his first ever brand new car. He’s wanted another mustang ever since.

I knew he’d been browsing. But he’s such a gear head, and is always browsing cars and bikes for sale so I didn’t give it any thought till around midday he casually mentioned how about we “go for a little drive.”

Um....what? I’d just gotten back from doing the food shopping for Easter and changed into my painting clothes to tackle a section of kitchen that we were going to paint before I got rolling on the cooking for Easter.

The “little drive” was a 2.5 hour road trip to Kentucky where the car was being sold!! But it was an amazing deal and it made Ron SO happy, so what could I do?? 🤷‍♀️ The food could get cooked later. So off we went!! He’s wiped that thing down so many times already there won’t be any paint left soon!’😂💕
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These retro Mustangs are more beautiful than the original ones. They were always nice-looking until 1973. That's when they stopped designing it and just cut out cardboard boxes and attached lights and wheels on them. I am happy to see that they have regained their original passion! (y)
 
horseless carriage said:
Fabulous car, fabulous story. You might smile when I tell you that I bought a dream car. Mine was a Bentley, not new of course, goodness me, a new one can set you back a quarter of a million, no, this one was new in 2003. What was I thinking of? Probably the Bentleys of the pre-war era, mine is a deep green after all. The car, new, was well over a six figure sum, but if you think that I have a bargain, just remember, spares, repairs and fuel all cost a King's ransom. none the less, we both love our Bentley and, I am almost, but not quite, ashamed to say, that the kudos of parking it in the supermarket parking lot, takes some beating. (I can beat it that's why I have a vintage MG.)
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I love your MG, Horseless, but double wow, that green car is gorgeous!

My husband has always been a classic and sport-performance/luxury kind of car guy, I just know he'd love this one!
 
Have you ever heard of a DB? No? I saw this car around the corner from my house today and I had to take a closer look. From a distance, I naturally thought it was a Volvo but when I got up close I saw the badge: DB! Then I figured it was German or French. There was a DB (Deutsch-Bonnet) manufactured in the 1930s. But no! It’s an American 1926 Dodge Brothers taxi.

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Verisure said:
Have you ever heard of a DB? No? I saw this car around the corner from my house today and I had to take a closer look. From a distance, I naturally thought it was a Volvo but when I got up close I saw the badge: DB! Then I figured it was German or French. There was a DB (Deutsch-Bonnet) manufactured in the 1930s. But no! It’s an American 1926 Dodge Brothers taxi.

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I've never heard of a DB before, but if this car was all in black, I could see someone along the lines of Poirot, exiting from it in style.

Would make for a perfect vehicle to be chauffeured around in.
 
This is my husbands car... a Maserati Granturismo...

..no change from around £90k

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Verisure said:
I'm with you 100%! It's a taxi and there's LOTS of legroom inside of it.
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I just love the idea of being able to step in, not have to crouch, bend, and contort oneself to try and flop down into something that's 3 inches about the ground, and then attempt to climb out after being cooped up inside for an hour or two.

With a size roomy car like this, there'd be room to spare and stretch-out.

This is my kind of vehicle!
 
Aunt Marg said:
I just love the idea of being able to step in, not have to crouch, bend, and contort oneself to try and flop down into something that's 3 inches about the ground, and then attempt to climb out after being cooped up inside for an hour or two.

With a size roomy car like this, there'd be room to spare and stretch-out.

This is my kind of vehicle!
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Definitely. You can play badminton in this one or even install a bowling alley!
 
Verisure said:
Have you ever heard of a DB?
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Oh yes, most certainly, it's a euphemism for David Brown? Who is David Brown?
Let me enlighten you, because I am absolutely positive that the world and his dog have heard of DB.

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This is a movie still from the James Bond film, "Goldfinger."
The car is an Aston Martin DB5

When David Brown answered a small ad in The Times in late 1946, he didn’t realise his initials would eventually be transformed into two of the most evocative letters in automotive history. The advert offered a sports car company for sale (for £20,000), and Brown was sufficiently interested to make an offer, bringing the expertise he had gained in building gearboxes and tractors to a far more glamorous world. In early 1947, Brown bought Aston Martin, attracted by the possibilities and potential of this famous British marque.

The first DB car was originally named as the “Two Litre Sports”, although history now knows it as the DB1. Outright winner of the 1948 Spa 24 Hours, the production model that followed cemented an auspicious relationship between the track-going Aston Martins and their road car siblings; each supported the other while bringing innovation, performance and elegance to customers.

This link https://magazine.astonmartin.com/heritage/story-behind-db-aston-martins-famous-marque will tell you all you want to know about David Brown, tractors and Aston Martin.
 

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