Millennial Mustang Registry provides young pony car owners with a club free of judgmental elders.
It seems that just about every other generation talks poorly of millennials, so it comes as little surprise that young Ford Mustang owners who are looking to get involved with a club may be interested in a group with lots of people similar in age. That is why the Millennial Mustang Registry was born, giving Ford pony car drivers born between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s a club to call their own.
Online Club for Young Drivers
Regardless of the venue – whether it is a local car club, an online forum or a Facebook group – the loudest voices in the automotive world are typically older folks. As a result, input from younger members of the community oftentimes gets lost or simply disregarded, leaving these members feeling like outcasts.
The Millennial Mustang Registry was created for this very reason, and this piece from the group website best describes their goals in creating the club:
“The Millennial Mustang Registry is a group of Millennials (born between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s) who have a love for Mustangs. The car show scene is mostly dominated by older generations, and because of this, people think we Millennials don’t love our Mustangs. The purpose of this club is to show how much we Millennials truly do love our Mustangs as well as try and get more people involved in the car world.”
"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.
"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.
"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.
"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.
"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.
