Well this is her she was bought for me on February 10, 2009. I saw her when I rounded the corner of my house and knew she was meant for me.
Not long after receiving my car I started searching ebay for Gran Torino Emblems (one of my top two favorite cars) and bought a pair of the set. After an extremely long shipping process I received my emblems, I enlisted the help of my brother to ensure that I didn't anhilate my paint job while drilling holes for the emblems. The Limited Edition emblem I admittedly picked up at Auto Zone but I thought it looked good, corny I know.
During that February I installed my head unit with SD and USB reader.
Sometime in March I sped around a curve I had been on many times but went too fast, fishtailed, overcorrected, and slid the rear off the side of the road plowing down a speed limit sign (irony I know) along the way and came to a stop facing perpendicular to the road with the front tires off the ground. (I'll have pictures soon)
Fom left to right; my friends 2002 Dodge Neon SXT Mini Hemi, my brothers 2005 Nissan Sentra SE, may it rest in peace, and my 1998 Mercury Gran Torino LE GS.
Recently my brother and I painted the back simulated light panel. I spent that day staring at it everytime I looked outside, this made me keep thinking of the back side of a '99 Ford Crown Victoria Police Car.
Admittedly it is not a perfect match but its pretty damn close.
All I kept envisioning a "Police Interceptor" emblem on it. So that is my next project locating and adhearing one of those emblems like this:
So lately it has been difficult to locate any decomissioned police cars for my emblems but I have moved on to better things, such as blacking out the rear tail lights and installing a new muffler.
The pictures will be here soon, for anybody who is actually paying attention to my page.
Updated from here down on October 22nd 2009
98% interior swap with 97 Ford Contour SVT found in local junk yard.
Swaped out old Lanzar head unit for new Pioneer using iPod Nano Video 3G.
Swaped out old stock Mystique gauges for bright white SVT gauges.
Painted stock black brake calipers bright high heat red.
Hard to tell but my brother and I completely blacked out the tail lights.
Next step is to replace the original Mercury emblem with this one from a Montego remove the Limited Edition emblem and adhearing these two just like this on the trunk lid.
