03DSGGT
SN95 Supporting Member
Hey guys, I was going through some pictures of my car and I realized that I have owned my car almost 6 years to the day. The car went from basically bone stock to where it is now. I figured Id throw some pics up to show how the car has changed over the last few years. Little background...I bought the car in mid December of 2005. It was an unexpected buy. I was living in Cleveland at the time with my parents, and I was attending WyoTech in Blairesville, PA. I would drive the 2.5 hours home every Friday after school so I could be around family and friends for the weekend. Well, one night on my way home my explorer broke down (broken flywheel) and I needed a car before I returned to Pittsburgh on Monday. I went out looking for a 4x4 Ranger, and ended up driving the Mustang home. It was a 2003 GT 5 speed with 20,000 miles on it. Asking price was 19,500...way too high. Well after two days of haggling, I got the dealer down to 14,000. The car was pretty much bone stock except for a couple small changes. It had 03/04 Cobra seats, a hacked up exhust with cherry bomb mufflers, and 94-95 Mustang GT wheels. This is how it looked when I bought it:
From the time I bought it in December of 05, to late March of 2006, the milage went from 20,000 miles to 36,000 miles. i chalk this up to driving back to Cleveland every weekend, then down to Ohio University every couple weekends to see the girlfriend (now fiance), and the 45 minutes from my apartment in Latrobe, PA to WyoTech every day. Now that I was back home in Cleveland, I could focus on getting the Explorer fixed and back on the road. Once that was done, I retired the Mustang from daily driver duties and started putting some money into her as well as keeping the miles low. The car has just under 50,000 miles on it right now. So in the first 3 months of owning it, I put around 16,000 miles on it. Then from March of 06 till say March of 2012 when I take it out of winter storage, I have put roughly 13,000 miles on it..lol So anyways, the first thing I did when I graduated from WyoTech was buy a set of chrome Bullitt rims (17x8 and 18x9). I then did small cosmetic things like painted between the tail lights satin black, tinted tail lights, etc. As far as performance, I did BBK lowering springs, full boltons, MAC ceramic longtubes, O/R H, Flomasters, VT Stage 2 cams and valve springs, 4.10 gears, dyno tune, etc. The car was like this from the summer of 2006 until fall of 2008. Heres some pics of it in this stage:
So winter of 08 rolls around and Im starting to get the appearance mod bug pretty bad. I wanted to smooth out the overall appearance of the car. I decide to take the rear spoiler off of the car and use body plugs, I bought a set of Mach 1/Bullitt C pillars and quarter glass, 03/04 Cobra rockers, 03/04 Cobra side mirrors, H.O. Fibertrends cowl hood, and 18x9/10 anthracite Bullitt rims. I also bought a ported HPS Hardballr' intake manifold, and I did a few more suspension mods like Bullitt Tokico front and rear struts/shocks, tubular upper and lower control arms, etc. This is how the car looked at this point...and yea I was doing all of the work in a 10x20 storage unit..lol:
From the time I bought it in December of 05, to late March of 2006, the milage went from 20,000 miles to 36,000 miles. i chalk this up to driving back to Cleveland every weekend, then down to Ohio University every couple weekends to see the girlfriend (now fiance), and the 45 minutes from my apartment in Latrobe, PA to WyoTech every day. Now that I was back home in Cleveland, I could focus on getting the Explorer fixed and back on the road. Once that was done, I retired the Mustang from daily driver duties and started putting some money into her as well as keeping the miles low. The car has just under 50,000 miles on it right now. So in the first 3 months of owning it, I put around 16,000 miles on it. Then from March of 06 till say March of 2012 when I take it out of winter storage, I have put roughly 13,000 miles on it..lol So anyways, the first thing I did when I graduated from WyoTech was buy a set of chrome Bullitt rims (17x8 and 18x9). I then did small cosmetic things like painted between the tail lights satin black, tinted tail lights, etc. As far as performance, I did BBK lowering springs, full boltons, MAC ceramic longtubes, O/R H, Flomasters, VT Stage 2 cams and valve springs, 4.10 gears, dyno tune, etc. The car was like this from the summer of 2006 until fall of 2008. Heres some pics of it in this stage:
So winter of 08 rolls around and Im starting to get the appearance mod bug pretty bad. I wanted to smooth out the overall appearance of the car. I decide to take the rear spoiler off of the car and use body plugs, I bought a set of Mach 1/Bullitt C pillars and quarter glass, 03/04 Cobra rockers, 03/04 Cobra side mirrors, H.O. Fibertrends cowl hood, and 18x9/10 anthracite Bullitt rims. I also bought a ported HPS Hardballr' intake manifold, and I did a few more suspension mods like Bullitt Tokico front and rear struts/shocks, tubular upper and lower control arms, etc. This is how the car looked at this point...and yea I was doing all of the work in a 10x20 storage unit..lol:
