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I still think you should put flames on it!! At least ghost flames!!

I do like your old wheels. The ones you had on the Reatta. I also like the ones you are considering above. I am a bit surprised they didn't have a more bling or eye catching wheel on a special edition. You are right that the overall appearance is pretty vanilla, so it is somewhat a blank canvas. It really boils down to the image you have in your own mind; boy racer, personal luxury coupe, old guy elegance. 😁 I think you will know when you see them. Maybe you can get Foose to design something for you alone

I have always called that the "song of the machine". I listen to it often, no matter what vehicle.

The wheels on my 1999 Mustang are the optional 17" wheels. Ford didn't offer a polished wheel as an option for Mustangs in 1999. In 1998 the optional 17" wheels, shown below, were polished. I like the '98 17" optional polished wheels much better than mine. Maybe they wouldn't be too hard to find. Think they would look good on my Mustang?

I remember back in the late sixties, my dad bought 2 plots in a local graveyard near where we lived. There were 5 of us in the family. He said, "the first two to die get to be buried in those plots. The rest of you are on your own". What a joker.

When you look at the photo below I took recently, and compare it to the photo above I took of my Reatta a few years ago, it is clear to me the Reatta is the best looking car. I think a Reatta body on a mustang chassis would be the ideal car for me. I took this photo at the graveyard while I was checking to see if anyone had stolen my grave plots. Never know when your going to need them at my age with my health issues, 😁

I saw he last eclipse we had here a few years ago. It got really dark. What I noticed the most was as the eclipse approached the shadows under the trees in my yard started to slowly disappear and eventually faded away. It was an eerie feeling to see that happen in the middle of the day.

I agree. I enjoy driving. My wife and daughter are just the opposite. For them a car is just a tool to get from point A to point B, so for them being in a car is a necessary inconvenience. My daughter always takes a plane whenever she can so she gets there faster, where to me it's more about the drive than the destination. Something that tics me off is when we go riding around in the Reatta, and now the Mustang, they want to play the radio all the time, where I like to leave the radio off and listen to the sound of the car purring down the road. I guess I'm just an old motorhead and doubt I will ever change. 🙂

The connector sometimes fails as well, in which case it will show a pressure a few bars below normal, and somewhat erratic.

This guy is the same age as I am. I haven't had the trauma of a serious illness, but I did lose my career job of 38 years with the financial meltdown in '08, which oddly enough caused me to almost completely abandon professional sports. I watched the whiny players/drivers/professionals complain about their contracts and money, which just struck me as so selfish. It was a sort of epiphany of what was actually important. I had spent decades looking for things to complain about and I had everything I needed all along. Do what you want to do, not because someone else thinks it is needed, but what satisfies you. At the same time, I admit I need to be pushed a little, so striking a balance does take some thought. I am definitely not a type "A" person. I do get bursts of energy and enthusiasm for new things, occasionally, but I rarely rush into things. It probably drives my younger son nuts, a type A, as well as my sister, another type A. I tell them both, I will not be hurried and you can't make me, but I appreciate,(and need), them both. I lost my wife almost exactly six years ago now, prior to the pandemic, and of course the pandemic itself, which pretty much removed two years from everyone's life. I only have myself to worry about now, and maybe someday I will decide to get on a plane to somewhere else, (I do have a passport), but not today. I think about a train ride across Canada, or maybe a river cruise out west, and maybe that will happen, but only maybe. I don't feel alone. I am blessed with a few very good friends, and some close relatives, which I see regularly, what more do I need?

I guess I just got use to the Reatta so it actually seems normal for me to ignore the extra power the Mustang has. It has took me a while to get use to mashing on the gas pedal the way I normally did in the Reatta when pulling away from a top sign or red light. Where the Reatta would pull away normally, the Mustang tends to jump with the same amount of pedal pressure. I've only got on the Mustang hard once. I was at a stop sign on a straight road where no one was around. I mashed the gas pedal about 3/4 the way to the floor and the tires started spinning. I let off and it shifted to second at about 4000 RPM. That is all I needed to know to tell me it had enough power to suite me. 🙂 The only other time it has saw 4000 is when I decided to move the shifter from overdrive to drive like you can do in a Reatta. Little did I know that when you pull the Mustang shifter back one notch that you go into second gear. haha. There is a button on the side of the shifter to take it out of overdrive but I wasn't aware of that at the time. Ford does things a little different from GM and I learned about the button on the shifter the hard way. 🙂 I've given some thought about a taller sidewall tire making the ride better but to keep the same tire diameter tires and speedometer reading I would have to go to 16" wheels. Some similar year Mustang GTs came with 16" wheels. I had a set of them on my Reatta for a while. I just hate to get new tires when the ones on the Mustang have less than 6000 miles on them. Below is the Mustang wheels I had on my Reatta. They aren't chrome but I spent a lot of time polishing them to look like chrome. I wish I still had them. I think they would look good on my Mustang. I'm starting to agree with you on the side stripe after seeing a Mustang on the road that had one. I'm thinking now that since the Mustang is stock like it came for the factory I might just keep it as is, maybe including the wheels, just to keep it original.

Sarookha, the oil pressure sensor on the 3800 engines is notorious for failing. Ninety-nine times out of one hundred the actual oil pressure is fine as is the instrument gauge. In the eleven years I've owned my '91 Reatta, I've replaced the oil pressure sensor four times. Had the same issue with my two previously owned '92 Rivieras.

Oh and another thing. We call it the "Vietnam War" they call it the "American War".