mrblanche

According to the tracking site, the mustang was built last Friday and is now awaiting shipment.

When the dealer told me "4 to 6 weeks," I turned to my wife and said, "I wonder if he'd take bets on that?" I knew that there was no way it could be as little as 4 weeks. My guess at the time was 8 weeks, and it looks right now that 9 weeks is a better guess. And mine doesn't have any of the stuff required to be done off-site.

That would mean they would have been about 5 months into the 1942 model year, and yet I don't recall seeing any 1942 cars at car shows or anything. I'm sure car production continued, because they were used in the war effort. My first car was a 1941 Chevy I bought in 1966 for $65. I don't think I've ever seen a 1942 in person.

cph125, if everyone checked as carefully as you did, pretty soon the problem would disappear, I'll bet.

Thanks so much. Won't quite be the last one off the line, then.

Could you please check on the Mustang we have ordered? From everything I can find out, it looks like it may be one of the very last 2016's built. Vin 1FA6P8AM5G5332993 Thanks. Mike

Our Fiesta looked exactly like this photo when we got it in 1978. The only option on this one that we didn't have was the rear wiper. Yes, we had the aluminum wheels, and while we never had a problem with them, everybody else had broken at least one of them.

Well, I DO find the front of the Mustang to be a little "busy." And it is traditional for manufacturers to go for a "family resemblance" in their cars. I'm just not sure this is the solution.

I seriously tried to convince my wife she wanted a leftover 2015 Taurus instead of ordering her Mustang. She drove it, said, "Meh. Nice car, but no nicer than my 2011 Malibu." So Mustang it is. Surprised to hear the Taurus appears to be on its last legs.

How many times have we heard, "It ran better than it ever had before, right before it nosed over and died."

In my 39 years of trucking, I have stopped and put out a number of vehicle fires. I always make it a policy to ask if they want the vehicle saved. (At least a couple of the vehicles were mid-80's Ford V6's, the ones that didn't have valve cover gaskets.)

I actually found the highway north of the Oregon border some of my favorite parts.

It was a nice little car, in spite of its foibles. Clutch was no more than an on/off switch. In about 70,000 miles, replaced the water pump twice and the heater controls at least once. They must have put really soft front brake pads on it; they were gone in about 12,000 miles. But it was very comfortable, and even the back seat was reasonable. The one I had had every option on it. And my wife's enjoyment of that little car is one of the reasons she insisted on getting a manual transmission in the Mustang we have on order.

Mine is saying in order processing and doesn't give a scheduled production date, but it does give an estimated delivery time. Like you, it's a good deal later than the dealer told me...but I never believed his estimate, anyway. It may be right. But it says you wont' have a VIN until you have a scheduled build date.

Well, if you go directly from where you are, yeah, you'll be going south, and that works just fine. But you could go somewhere else and then return home going north. Lots of interesting sights along that highway.