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I Bleed Ford Blue

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Hello all, my lease was up on my F150, so I dumped it back in ford's lap and planned on another until I found this





Anyway, it's a 17 GT vert with the 401A package and the performance pack and the mt82 six speed manual.

I've been on F150 online for 12 years now as 05redfx4 so I'm not a newb, just new here. I grew up in the west side suburbs of Cleveland, Brook Park actually, literally right down the street from the Cleveland engine plant. My parents always had fords when I was a kid and so do I and so do my kids hence the screen name. I work at a huge integrated steel mill as a electrical maintenance technician and the wife is a social worker, and my youngest is a freshman at Cleveland State majoring in chemical engineering and she drives a 2016 focus titanium in Blue Candy that I bought her for a grad present from high school.

Oh, and this is my second mustang, I had an 89 GT that I bought new back in 89 while I was home on leave, it was stolen from me on May 14 1991 while I was living in Phoenix AZ never to be seen again.
 
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Davedacarpainter

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Welcome to stangnet.

Beautiful mustang brother

Snoop around the S550 subforums for any help you might need, or conversely, if you might be able to help out other members.

It's good to have you with us.
 

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Before the new stang, I was driving trucks for 10 of the last 12 years.

The 2005 F150 FX4


The 2007 F150 FX4



Then the wife talked me into trading in the truck for this
2012 Focus titanium



well she took the focus and gave me her leftovers... a 2011 Fusion SEL



After about 10 months I was going to trade in the fusion for a new one, until the wife found out, so we ended up with this

2013 Escape Titanium



The wife took the new escape and stuck me with the yellow shoe box focus, so i only lasted about 8 months in it and I had to get rid of it, so I traded it for this...a 2013 F150 FX4



Well that brings me up to the new mustang, and the wife is not too happy with me right now, but I told her she screwed me over twice and took the new car and stuck me with the leftovers, so deal with it. But you know what they say, better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
 
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I Bleed Ford Blue

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Davedacarpainter said:
if you might be able to help out other members.

It's good to have you with us.
Click to expand...

Well I try to pass on my knowledge of fords or vehicles in general to others. As I mentioned earlier, I've been on F150 online for 12 years, and I'm also on Blue Oval Fanatics with the same screen name as here. I know so much about the current crop of Ford vehicles, the salesman I deal with tried to talk me into being a car salesman because I knew more than he did. My wife calls it a sickness, I just say it's a guy thing, you wouldn't understand. But I've been like that since I was a kid. Some people are born with a silver spoon, I was born with a torque wrench in one hand and a pair of snap ring pliers in the other.
 
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I'm a fox body guy. I sure can appreciate the S550's though.

I really dig getting dirty and doing whatever it takes for making the car run better.
 
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