Jeb_Bush_2000: Cobra Vert?? You think I'm made of money? LOL. Seriously though, I'm pretty dead set on blue. I'd love a 1998 Cobra in Atlantic Blue, but since I don't have 20k that I'm gonna be giving up anytime soon.... Hehe, since I'm playing with the 1998, why not make it a 1999? I really love those Cobra's.
fiveohpatrol: I'm going to be financing, and I can't finance a paint job, new nose, fenders, hood etc... Otherwise I might think about doing a repair job. The other thing is cars are never the same after an accident. There is always that one panel that doesn't want to line up right, or the wrinkle in the inside fender. I have a car like that now, and I just want something nice.
Funny you should mention GT shopping in another part of the country, Marty. I went shopping for the GT I currently have in Oklahoma and Texas almost 3 years ago now. What I found was a bunch of junk. It was either needing paint (oxydized all to hell), just thrashed, or in bad mechanical shape. I loved the "temporary heater core" that I saw in one of the cars I looked at. LOL, what the heck is a temporary heater core you ask? It's a metal box radiator looking a lot like a space heater with coolant hoses running into it that sits on the passenger side floorboard, hahhahaha. Those Texans crack me up! That car also had a shot AOD, which made it neigh impossible to drive back to Minnesota, hehe. I gave up on the search, and headed back to Minnesota in my disposable car. Rolling back with the heater on, windows down, and foot stuck on the pedal so the thing wouldn't die (apparently, the EGR completely plugged with carbon, hahah). Oh well, the trashed Lincoln Mark VII my dad was just going to have me drop off at a local junkyard in Oklahoma, but it made the trip all the way back up. Over 200,000mi on it. In despiration, I settled on this white 1987 Mustang GT. It had 113k on it, needed exhaust (screwed up as usual by a redneck), heater core, and some minor maintenance. $3400 and I was out of there with a car that originated, or at least spent a great deal of it's life well south of MN. I know just by looking at the tell tale signs. Perfect no rust 1/4's, bleached out dash. Now it's rusting thanks to a crappy paint job that was put on it before I got it, and she's crankin over 160k.
I've been lookin around the country via Autotrader (site bites compared to the now defunct Classifieds2000), and I'm not seeing much that's attracting my attention. If ya see one, let me know!!