5 Going on 16
On April 29, Tanner Parrett of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, turned the big age of five years old, although it looks as if he's well on his way to 16 in this photo. Accompanying Tanner is his dad's '93 GT convertible. The car is mostly stock. However, a Saleen spoiler, MAC headers, an H-pipe, and a Flowmaster after-cat help blow out the candles. Tanner's Uncle Kevin sent us the photo, and he owns a '99 35th Anniversary convertible in silver. Kevin confirms Tanner is indeed a Mustang fanatic. The future's bright, folks.
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Blue By You
You know we couldn't write about blue Mustangs without using that title, and Jerry Flenor's Cobalt Blue '88 GT fits it perfectly. Jerry's definition of tinkering with his car includes the addition of a 351 Windsor with AFR 185 heads, a GT-40 intake, an MSD ignition, and a lot of other goodies. Moser 31-spline axles are set in motion by 3.55 gears within the otherwise-stock 8.8. Cobra R four-lug wheels with Nitto treads grab for traction, which we know is in short supply.
Bright Blue Yonder
That's Bright Atlantic Blue to you Melvins--and Lisa Paquette's bone-stock '99 GT convertible wears it well. Straight outta Vegas, Lisa burns up the road while listening to a MACH 460 system and chillin' in her Medium Graphite leather seats with custom-stitched ponies. Factory 17-inch wheels grab for traction on Interstate 15 toward the Valley of Fire State Park.
Strike Two
Thomas Bauman of Edmond, Oklahoma, almost struck out with us here at 5.0&SF. First, he asked us to set him up for a one-year subscription. We're unable to do that, Thomas. You need to buy a magazine off the rack and send in for a subscription. Second, he made a feeble attempt to get his girlfriend, Jennifer, into Babe of the Month by sending us an unusable photo. "The picture's kinda dark," Thomas says. "It was taken at night." Say it with us--"Really!" Luckily, he gets one more pitch thanks to his '91 GT, which has been treated to a 306 with ported and polished stock heads, a Ford Racing Performance Parts E303 cam and 1.7 rockers, a BBK cold-air kit, Flowmaster mufflers, an electric fan, a three-core radiator, and a K&N filter. An Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, a 70mm throttle body, a C&L mass air meter, and 24-lb/hr injectors are up next.
Backwoods Blue
David Michael of Bulls Gap, Tennessee, says he lives so far back in the woods, his '93 GT should've been a four-wheel drive. Thankfully, it's not, because we'd have to make fun of him if it were. Although David says his GT is teal, it looks blue in this photo, so we're going with it.
"I would love to see my baby in your magazine," David says. Well, we couldn't resist. The GT features more additions than we could list here, but the highlights include an Explorer intake (appropriate for a 4x4 5.0), ported and polished '69 302 heads, a Lunati cam, and a bunch of other components from MAC, BBK, Granatelli Motor Sports, MSD, Flowmaster, B&M, and more. A Compucar 150-shot fogger nitrous kit makes the Competition Engineering six-point cage necessary for racing between pastures, while several '93 Cobra pieces make sure the four-legged horse takes notice when David's at full gallop.