How Stangnet Began

I have no idea how it started, it was around before I was, most forum sites kind of started over around 2k with forum style updates.. I do remember something about pro3i and MM a little later on when stangnet was kind of selling parts, bought a few pro3I and mac parts threw the storefront. so many sites over the years. So long ago and so many memebers have come and gone now.

I was on corral first I think, when it was the old bbs? Style forum, had aol back them, think I had a different SN at first, had this one way too long lol, my avatar pics got to be from around 2000-2001ish?. Most regulars where on all the different sites, think local wise in tri-state area. NJ pa de.etc for mustangs by me it was mainly SSOTN or a lot of the old Street racing/dragracing sites that are long gone where everyone kind of new each other or met and sold parts etc. I knew lots of locals from all of them, mostly from buying used parts or selling them, big part of the forums for me was finding budget parts back then. I don't think I bought any new performance parts until I was well into my 20's lol. Sadly a lot of people I met over the years and became friends with threw these cars have passed away at young ages. I'm 41, started on most of the sites around 15 or 16 since I bought mine before I could even drive. I learned to drive a stick with a super fubar clutch cable in my coupe. I thought a heavy ass clutch was normal lol. Used to go to nmra every year it was at atco, and met a bunch of ppl from that off the sites. There where guys i would give parts for free and the same in return or help at the track if needed. I kind of stopped visiting most forums when they all got bought up by that Canadian company and social media started to win out over forums though and I took a break from cars for a bunch of years when a few friends and my father passed around the same time frame.

I first fell in love with the Mustang after seeing the 94 SN models. I was only 11 at the time, but that car seriously had me wishing to be able to drive, but drive a Mustang. Fast forward to 99 when the first new edge model came out. I was head-over-heels! It was also around this time that the internet was really taking off (granted is was only AOL and dial-up at that point). I took my passion to the net and read/joined ANYTHING Mustang related. I found stangnet in either 99 or 00, I cant remember. I had my first account a few years. Didnt participate much because everthing-Mustang was still 5.0.

Then comes 2002 and I graduated high school as the valedictorian and my parents ABSOLUTELY BLEW ME AWAY when we got home a few hours later and there was a brand new MINT 2001 Oxford White GT sitting in the driveway. I ditched my old account and started fresh. 23 years later and I still miss that thing with every fiber of my being.