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Message: <blockquote data-quote="laramik" data-source="post: 1444964" data-attributes="member: 22889">Hi there, my name is Mike and I am a long time mustang fanatic. My first real car was a 93 5.0 black on black LX 5 speed. That car took on the habit of eating trees when I was 18 years old and after that it didn't run much anymore. About 15 years later I bought an 89 LX 5.0 in white which I restored from the ground up with new interior all body wor, new paint, new shocks,  transmission, rear end pretty much the whole thing. It looked real nice until I let a friend borrow it. I had two rules no drinking and driving with the vehicle and no driving in the snow. Of course he proceeded to then get loaded and drive it during a snowstorm in which he lost control of the rear and tore the entire torque box so my wheelbase was almost 4 inches longer on that side.  There was no fix for it aside from welding in a donor box so I sold it to a neighborhood kid for a grand. Which brings me to where I'm at today. I'll be turning 40 years old soon, and I have a 15 year old daughter who will be turning 16 in the next few days who has been asking for a mustang since she was around 6 years old. She helped me install both transmissions on the white LX and helped with a bunch of little projects during the restoration of it.  Seeing as the prices on fox bodies have gotten so ridiculously expensive as of late I decided I'd take a hard look at the sn95 to hopefully get her one for Christmas. Ended up finding a 98 Gt Vert in black on black with an auto tranny and only 67k miles. ZERO rust anywhere, not even undercarriage, and no accidents, full 19 years of history through autocheck with zero accidents or issues. Guy who had it listed was asking 5700 for it which I thought was a good deal to begin with but I only had 3847 dollars in my account so I offered 3800.  After speaking with him and telling my story he refused two other offers on it and said he'd actually lower my offer to 3700 and accept it because he loved that it was for my daughter as he had bought this for his son in a similar fashion.  Got there and it was every bit as nice as he had said it was and drove her home 400 miles that day. Christmas Eve night I washed it all up and got a giant red bow and she walked out to a awesome 98 mustang GT and was so excited she was crying. there are a few little issues with that none of which are insurmountable and in fact almost all have been repaired as of today but I'm sure we'll be checking in on the forums from time to time for help with these things. Looking forward to being a new member of this community and we'll talk soonSent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk<img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190106/972c68360ba556c08c3ea34bb0ec1d91.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190106/82f7e65bc454d9d4e222043d976ef8b5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>