Jules realizes it's not every...
Jules realizes it's not every day you see a Teal SN-95 GT, so he keeps the car in top form with frequent washings and waxings. The '95's body is as it was from the factory. Jules even bucks the trend of installing '96-'98 taillights on the car. The addition of '98 Cobra wheels and clear side-marker lights were the lone deviations from stock when we shot the GT. However, Jules recently added Cobra brakes and headlights to it. We could've Photoshopped the additions to the car, but here at 5.0&SF, we don't do that stuff.
Horse Sense: When Jules wanted to add wheels to his '95 Mustang, he initially decided to add the 17-inch '94-'95 GT style, but for an extra $100 he found Glenn Sullivan selling the wheels off his wife Dianne's '98 Cobra. Glenn told Jules he should check out SuperStallions of the Net (www.superstallions.com), and the rest is history.
"My initiation into the world of Mustang started in high school," Julian (Jules) Moore says. High school for the Mamaroneck, New York, resident coincided with the early '80s, and all the cool kids were driving Trans Ams, Camaros, and Chevelles, "except for one kid who had an all-black '78 Mustang II with a four-speed and a V-8 option," Jules says. "I went for a ride and was hooked. The car was a true sleeper, and no one expected it to do what it did." Although the car was slow by today's standards, to a 16-year-old looking for a quick ride, it had what it took. You can probably guess what happened next. Yes, Jules bought the Mustang from the kid. He named it "Trigger."
When the '85 GTs came out, Jules rushed to the dealer to put a downpayment on his next Mustang. "After promising to be back in the morning," Jules says, "this high school senior was devastated to learn that insurance would cost $3,500 a year. Lucky for me, the salesman had a heart and returned my down payment." Soon after that disappointment, Jules fell down and hit his head and ventured into the import scene. He purchased a red '88 Acura Integra, followed by a '92 Honda Accord coupe. "What was I thinking?" he jokes.
While much of the interior...
While much of the interior on Jules' GT remains stock, it has been treated to a few necessary mods, including Auto Meter Phantom oil and temp gauges, a MAC white-face gauge kit, a shift light, an Anderson Ford Motorsport ashtray-door switch panel, and a Pro-5.0 shifter. The AFM switch panel allows easy activation of the ZEX nitrous kit.
Along the way, a girl named Sue (obviously liking a challenge) decided to marry Jules, and in 1994 the couple went looking for a new car. The memory of the Mustang II and the devastation of not being able to get the '85 GT had left an indelible mark on Jules, because after one look at a Chrome Yellow '94 GT, he was a goner. "It looked both new and retro," he says, "like a Mach 1 for the '90s."
Not wanting to repeat a past mistake, Jules first checked out insurance rates, and-thanks to his marriage to Sue-the premium was considerably less than what he was quoted in 1985. The next day, the couple headed to the dealer and purchased a '95 GT. "I'd hoped for Atlantic Blue," Jules says, "but all the dealer could find was a great-looking Teal GT in Michigan, which could be freighted in a week. I still remember taking delivery on the car and seeing it for the first time. Awesome."
Jules' old Mustang II must've been really slow, because his new GT was a beast-"or so I thought," he says. He was running high 14s in stock form with the GT, which he thought was great at the time. "From then on my car was my new hobby. The teenager's dream had become a reality." Part of the hobby included adding a K&N air filter, a GT-40 intake, 3.55 gears, and bumping the timing. At the same time, Jules found the SuperStallions of the Net Internet Mustang club. After attending a SuperStallions race at Cecil County Drag-way in Rising Sun, Maryland, he was hooked. It was Jules' first taste of organized drag racing.