Hello all. I've been on this forum, but haven't really posted much. A few members that I talk to off the forum have pressured me to make a member ride thread, so here it is.
My time with this car began in 2013. I was fifteen years old, still on my learner's permit, and had been looking for a first car. Being fifteen and knowing nothing about cars, but still wanting something "fast", I wanted a Mustang. I had looked at a few cars I liked, for example a 1995 GT convertible, but didn't settle on any of them. I THOUGHT I wanted a Mustang, but something about them just didn't completely "do it" for me. I was dead set on one, however... That is, until mid-Jine when my mother showed me two cars he co-worker had put up for sale.
At first, I didn't really think I'd be too interested in either car. I wanted a Mustang, damnit, not a grandma car Buick or some weird Grand Am thing! That changed when I saw pictures of the Grand Prix. "Hey, that actually looks kind of cool!" I thought. Then my mom told me it was "Supercharged" and took premium gas. I had no idea what that meant, but hey, it sounded cool and I kind of wanted it. With my interest established, I ended up checking out the car and FELL IN LOVE WITH IT as soon as I got in it. We left with no real deal, though, as I still wanted to consider some options. A week or two pass, and I wake up one morning to my mom telling me to come downstairs. Sort of annoyed, I walk down to an open front door and my Grand Prix sitting in my drive-way. I was ECSTATIC and we immediately took it on a drive. Unfortunately, without my license, I couldn't drive it without my mother yet.
Of course, I got my license a couple of weeks later and have been driving the GTP since. Thought at the time I thought it was the fastest thing ever, some experience and a lot of research have shown me it's actually pretty slow in stock form, which brings me to where I am today. I did a little bit of reading and "planned" on modding my car for over a year before I even bought a single performance parts, partially due to a lack of knowledge/skill to install, and partially due to a lack of money to do so (No job at the time). That all changed when I joined here and got invited to hang with a few local w-body guys. (You know who you are). Right now my car is still basically stock, but I have a decent backup of parts I need to install. Soon, the build will begin, and my car will become significantly less slow.
But yeah, here I am a year and a half later. I now know what a supercharged does (LOL), cringe at the fact I thought V6 mustangs were cool/fast, and have all in all learned a LOT. Onto the point of the thread, here's the car...
Here she is after being freshly washed/waxed. 100% stock/unmodified at this point.
And here she is today.... Not much different, just an extra ding or two and with a little bit of rake.(It's not really that noticeable unless it's next to another GP)
Next post will have information on my build plan and plenty more pictures.
My time with this car began in 2013. I was fifteen years old, still on my learner's permit, and had been looking for a first car. Being fifteen and knowing nothing about cars, but still wanting something "fast", I wanted a Mustang. I had looked at a few cars I liked, for example a 1995 GT convertible, but didn't settle on any of them. I THOUGHT I wanted a Mustang, but something about them just didn't completely "do it" for me. I was dead set on one, however... That is, until mid-Jine when my mother showed me two cars he co-worker had put up for sale.
At first, I didn't really think I'd be too interested in either car. I wanted a Mustang, damnit, not a grandma car Buick or some weird Grand Am thing! That changed when I saw pictures of the Grand Prix. "Hey, that actually looks kind of cool!" I thought. Then my mom told me it was "Supercharged" and took premium gas. I had no idea what that meant, but hey, it sounded cool and I kind of wanted it. With my interest established, I ended up checking out the car and FELL IN LOVE WITH IT as soon as I got in it. We left with no real deal, though, as I still wanted to consider some options. A week or two pass, and I wake up one morning to my mom telling me to come downstairs. Sort of annoyed, I walk down to an open front door and my Grand Prix sitting in my drive-way. I was ECSTATIC and we immediately took it on a drive. Unfortunately, without my license, I couldn't drive it without my mother yet.
Of course, I got my license a couple of weeks later and have been driving the GTP since. Thought at the time I thought it was the fastest thing ever, some experience and a lot of research have shown me it's actually pretty slow in stock form, which brings me to where I am today. I did a little bit of reading and "planned" on modding my car for over a year before I even bought a single performance parts, partially due to a lack of knowledge/skill to install, and partially due to a lack of money to do so (No job at the time). That all changed when I joined here and got invited to hang with a few local w-body guys. (You know who you are). Right now my car is still basically stock, but I have a decent backup of parts I need to install. Soon, the build will begin, and my car will become significantly less slow.
But yeah, here I am a year and a half later. I now know what a supercharged does (LOL), cringe at the fact I thought V6 mustangs were cool/fast, and have all in all learned a LOT. Onto the point of the thread, here's the car...
Here she is after being freshly washed/waxed. 100% stock/unmodified at this point.
And here she is today.... Not much different, just an extra ding or two and with a little bit of rake.(It's not really that noticeable unless it's next to another GP)
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