Summer of 2004
I don't know why I call this a brief because this isn't really short but here is the story thus far:
I am 19 years old and my parents have owned a 1984 Mustang SVO since 1985. They aren't actually the first owners of the car but it had only a couple thousand miles on it when they did buy it so I pretty much count us as the only owners (for all that matters ;-). My mom was primary driver of the car when it ran because my dad would just drive to and from work and it would be pointless to drive an SVO for just that. Unfortunately, she drove the car into the ground quite well. Neither of my parents really know much about cars and so they just did what was the cheapest and what the mechanics told them. Then, sometime in 1998, the car died because of some "cracked computer chip". The mechanic wasn't sure exactly what was wrong with it but my parents didn't have the money to pay for the repairs and it was left in the garage.
My parents always told me that if I get the thing working again that I can have the car. The problem is that I haven't ever had the opportunity to learn the art of automechanics. After leaving for the Milwaukee School of Engineering for my first year of college, joining SAE, and working on FSAE (Formula 1 cars) I finally felt as though I was able to tackle the huge project of the SVO. Upon returning home this summer I decided to actually work on the darn thing.
Because the car was never prep for storage the car more or less rotted. More exactly it is now a rust bucket. I have decided to strip the whole thing down to the bone and rebuild it from the ground up. A lot of people have asked me why I'm going to spend more money on this 20+ year old car then it would cost to get a new one. Why? Because I remember what it was like to ride in it when I was a little kid and I want to drive it now. Anyways, it deserves to be preserved because it is such a rare car and will probably be worth a lot in the future.
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