"Future next gen S2000 owner" (future-next-gen-s2000-owner)
11/12/2020 at 12:00 • Filed to: My First Post
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"Future next gen S2000 owner" (future-next-gen-s2000-owner)
11/12/2020 at 12:00 • Filed to: My First Post | 3
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I suggest we start a first blog post repost theme day. Theme days are dead. Long live theme days!
Edit #2: The Mustang lives on. It is currently used as a promo/marketing vehicle(get it?) for a cancer charity in Colorado. Photo’s here:
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I reached a new position over the weekend. I was standing in my garage talking with my neighbor about motorcycles, cars, discussing the 50's Ford truck he has been transforming. We talked about the Harley Davidson he just bought and all the work he did and was planning on doing. The conversation shifted back to my car and the upgraded suspension components I had put on over the past few weeks.
He asked me whats next.
I didn’t have an answer.
I bought my 2004 Ford Mustang GT in December of 2005 with 13,000 miles on the clock. Ever since that day, the thoughts and plans for the car have changed. I’ve gone from all out track car to a 10,000 RPM screamer - because racecar and I haven’t seen it done yet, to a boosted 4V with a Cobra suspension bolted up. Over the years, my ideas for the car tempered and I picked up autocrossing. My current vision for the car has centered around being competitive locally in my class and daily driver demands.
I’ve upgraded components as life and my budget allowed. I’ve reached a point where I have upgraded everything I wanted to. I can win my class or at the minimum place in the top three. The ride isn’t unbearable when commuting 20 miles to work and 20 back home again. I’ve reached my goals I set out to attain. For almost the past 10 years I’ve always had something tangible in my head on what the next step was. I knew that, although my vision was changing, I knew what the next step was. There was always a lighthouse guiding me through the changing vision that clouded my mind.
I’ve enjoyed the build. As slow as it played out, the suspense only built with each new component. I couldn’t do everything at once, so I had to savor each incremental improvement knowing it was just one baby step closer to the end. Looking back now the car is a different animal than it was when I drove it off the lot. All the baby steps added up. All the busted knuckles and trips to the auto parts store in dirty jeans are just memories now.
Now, I feel a little lost. I thoroughly enjoy my car as it sits right now. I’m not selling it to pick up a faster car and start the process over again. We are old friends who have had countless adventures and made great memories together. I still get a smile on my face after almost ten years and over 100,ooo miles. I steal second glances as I put her away in the garage after work. I can’t imagine not having her in my life. Everything fits like a well worn glove. I can adjust anything without removing my eyes from the road. It is fast enough and handles well enough to keep up with just about anyone in the mountains or scare the living daylights out of an unsuspecting passenger.
I don’t know what will happen next. I don’t know if I will stop completely and just replace parts as they wear out. I don’t know if I will get an inspiration for a new direction for a different type of build. I don’t know if I will get into an accident on the way home and have the car totaled and have to start again with a blank slate. Maybe the motor will blow and I will be forced into a new direction.
I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. This cloudy fog in my head won’t go away. The lighthouse that used to guide me has a ‘gone fishin’ sign on the door. A drive in the mountains always seems clear my head. I’ll do that.
Fivepointohpwr
> Future next gen S2000 owner
06/16/2015 at 11:50 |
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Very nice write up. What kind of suspension mods do you have under that thing?
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> Fivepointohpwr
06/16/2015 at 12:19 |
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As it sits now Koni Sports at all four corners, Bilsteins for the quad shocks, H&R Springs, and SR roll bars front and Rear.
TylerLinner
> Future next gen S2000 owner
07/30/2015 at 12:54 |
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I guess you just enjoy it until it breaks, then you try something new for the hell of it and see what happens.
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> TylerLinner
07/30/2015 at 14:29 |
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I am currently racking up miles on my bike. The car has been very reliable. Takes all the abuse I throw at it and still keeps going. Who knows when it will give up the ghost.
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TylerLinner
> Future next gen S2000 owner
07/30/2015 at 15:17 |
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Nice. Well, there’s another slippery slope. I imagine you’ll be busy for the next ten plus years modding the bike now! Good to know you have an alternative when something on the car inevitably breaks on a Monday morning! :)
CB
> Future next gen S2000 owner
11/12/2020 at 12:08 |
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Do you still have the Mustang?
I’m more willing to share my better posts than my first posts.
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Future next gen S2000 owner
> Future next gen S2000 owner
11/12/2020 at 12:10 |
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I miss that Mustang. So damn much.
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> CB
11/12/2020 at 12:12 |
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I don’t. I sold it when I bought my Taco. Starting a family was on our minds as well as buying a boat. A Mustang is not really good for either of those.
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CB
> Future next gen S2000 owner
11/12/2020 at 12:14 |
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Sad but understandable.
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> CB
11/12/2020 at 12:16 |
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Hindsight being 2020, I should have kept it and bought the truck. Not bought the bike. Turned the Mustang into weekend toy.
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CB
> Future next gen S2000 owner
11/12/2020 at 12:18 |
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Hindsight sucks because that 20/20 vision also has rose coloured glasses on.
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> CB
11/12/2020 at 12:30 |
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Truth.