Defensive? Just a little, especially when I get a response like the one I did from Wilkinda (and others). I am being attacked by several people for asking a simple question. And considering Wilkinda is a moderator, that makes it even more disturbing. I see no point with bothering to explain why I was interested in the Boss decal at this point.

Wilkinda, I too am retired - I was an AZ State Trooper for 21 years and am still serving our country as an Army reservist for 31 years (I am a Chief Warrant Officer 4). I am also disabled as a result of that service. If you don't respect me as a fellow car enthusiast maybe we can find common ground with the military. Your response to my question was rude and inappropriate, particularly for a moderator. I know you think I was trying to bait FastDew over the Boss decal, I was not. Just curious. I don't care what people put on their cars when you get down to it, but I am a muscle car person.

 

FastDEW, sorry about all the turmoil regarding your decal with the Boss annotation. I was curious if you had some kind of special edition Mustang or something. As you can see, my wife's Mustang has Boss stripes on her car as well. Apparently, some people here seem to think I was calling you out about it. If you don't know, the original "Boss" Mustang was a special edition car produced in 1969 and 1970 with a 302 or a 429 (the 429 is extremely rare now). If you find yourself in a group of old school Mustang "purists", you will probably get some flack about having the Boss logo on your car, FYI. If you already knew this, sorry, don't mean to insult your intelligence.

 

AZ MSCL take a chill pill bud. Dont think Wilkinda was trying to jump you. More like trying to stear the ship away from having the poor guy get jumped all the time. Just because he wanted to go with the boss logo on his new paint job. My comment was also meant to point out, that it would be the "Purist." That would tend to get bent out of shape about it.. No offence was meant against you in particulare. Again, more about trying to head em off at the pass if you will..

Sorry if you took offence to my tone.. You still have the one up on me with two bad *** rides in the family..


And Yes I'm just a noob.. but I'm going to have one hell a fun time bieng one thats for sure!

Yours on MF

Dreamer1

 

OK. Bottom line, I was only wondering if he had some sort of special edition car. If he's been getting jumped, sorry to hear that, that's not what I was gonna do, I don't play that way. If someone gets a new car and posts pics of it on a forum, I will always tell them how nice it looks even if I may not care for it (and FastDEW, I do like your car). It's a big investment, they like it and that's what matters. I'm also one of the first ones that would defend another enthusiast who is getting the beat down from some jerk because they don't like the wheels or color. I'm actually a nice guy who loves muscle cars - it just seemed like I was jumped on unnecessarily, if that's not the case, I'm good. Chill pill taken.

 

You're cool AZ, I got t'd off once as well when I put something out and was asked what I was stating when I stated, a lot of mis-communication out here, there are some that were recently chatting with me but seems they won't reply to PM's or say hey anymore so I just brush off now and input when have something, sure I'll catch hell when I install my triple Pillar gauges like 10Stang has, he'll luv I know.

 

There is just so much unnecessary BS on car forums these days, I don't get it. I'm a muscle car fanatic, consider myself to be part of a brotherhood and I guess I expect everyone else to be the same way. That sure as hell ain't the case unfortunately.

 

I myself dive in head first to what I love, from 69 to about 2007 I was a dedicated biker, Harley this, Harley that, hell got so many jackets and things could have a small outlet, always had nice family type cars while had the bikes, but after my Toyota got totalled from behind was a good time to move on my Muscle car urge, wanted the a Challenger, like yours, but started thinking, I'm going to drive every day for work, want the power but need the MPG's too, plus at time Challenger was way over priced, then when I got the Mustang and went to my Dodge dealer, cause he sold me my new Caddy, he said I hate to tell you, but we took the price down from 45,000 to 28,000, I about fell over, but I love the Mustang, someday though I'm wanting to take 20,000 to a Mecum auction and get me a completely restore, like new Muscle car, I have seen plenty on there that looked like would go easy for 40,000 and they walked out paying 15,000, just got to hit it right.

 

I just traded my 2007 Black GT with 153,800 miles for a 10 Charcoal GT. That sweet 07 never gave me any trouble. Other than the battery going out at 90,000 and fuel and airfilters, the only thing I ever did was replace plugs at 80,000, pads at 75,000, and change oil (Mobile 1) every 7,000. The first time, I drove as easy as I could (ha ha) and changed at 3,500. That puppy drove nice, perfect idle, computer shows 25.5 mpg (80% of my driving is interstate.
Hope the 2010 is as trouble free. Oh--I also changed the trannie and rear end fluid and replaced with full synthetic at 90,000.

Great car!

 

I hear ya. I got lucky on my Challenger RT for some reason, bought it last April for $34,500 which was way under MSRP ($39,000+, without the "fair market value" BS). It's fully loaded and I got a smokin' deal on it. I've since modded it as much as I can without running into warranty problems - it is really fast and will hold its own against a stock SRT or Camaro SS (4.5 secs 0 - 60, haven't been able to time the 1/4 mile yet).

I always buy through fleet sales and got my wife to do the same. When she decided she didn't like the Camaro SS she went for the Mustang GT. Her car was the "teaser" car at a local dealership, a fully loaded Premium. She got it through their fleet internet sales dept - sticker was $39,000, paid $31,000. I wasn't a big fan of the new Mustangs but since getting one, I love it, what a neat car! It's really fun to drive and is a lot faster than I thought it would be. I put a tune on it and it's even faster now. Wife wants to race me at a local track so we're looking forward to that (she's a muscle car fan too).

I too would really like to restore a car (probably an early 70s Cuda or a 69-70 Mustang Boss). Depending on how big of a job you're gonna do, I would try to have about $20,000 in addition to the purchase price for the restoration part, it gets to be a lot of money. Good luck with that, it's one of my dreams too. We have the Barrett/Jackson auctions here in Scottsdale every year and it kills me to see all those great cars that I can't afford. Like you said, some do go for a lot less than you'd expect, so one of these days I may give it a shot. A couple of years ago, I watched two very rich guys get into a bidding war over a 71 Cuda that was perfectly restored - it went for over a million! I doubt it was really worth over $200,000 but it caused Cuda's and like Mopars to jump astronomically in price for about a year.

Oh, Dreamer1, sorry about hijacking the thread.

 

I have had many mustangs. I am sure I know as much if not more than you about them. I am very familiar with the history of Mustangs and the "Boss" in particular. I made the comment as I did because as I stated.. why do we care what he has on the side? He differentiated the car by having 281 on it as well.

I didn't flame you either, I simply asked why you care if it has "Boss" on it. As I stated , many after-market companies that customize cars have created their own "Boss" edition. So many people DO COME IN HERE and flame those that have added "Boss" or "Mach" or GT350 on their cars so yeah..I may be defensive for some of the members