Saw my first one back in September. A Marine two-star general had ordered one from the same dealer as I ordered my GT. His was due to arrive the week before mine but it worked out that mine arrived a week early and his was two weeks late. When mine did arrive I rubbed it in by e-mailing him a couple of pictures. One evening I was driving down the road and looked in my rear view mirror and saw that I had a Mustang quickly bearing down on me. Pretty soon I had a mirror full of blue GT 500. It was the general. He'd noticed my personalized tag so he knew it was me and decided to have a little payback fun for the pics that I sent to him. He'd had the car for about five days and had all of sixty miles on it. We pulled into a parking lot, parked the cars side by side and looked them both over. His is a convertible. A very, very nice car. Wish I'd had my camera with me.
He's a rather interesting individual, as he always has a toy of some kind. Before the Shelby it was a Vette. Right after I got my 95 GT several years ago, he asked me what mods I was planning to install, and I told him that I really wasn't sure. His resopnse was that if I really wanted to get the most out of the car I needed to install a CAI, catback, underdrive pulleys and gears. He's obviously into this stuff.