How did you get into 'stangs?

[429mustang]

I was always into Chevy's when I was younger, Mopars were OK too but I hated Fords. My dad's owned a 66 Impala, 76 Trans Am, 70 Malibu, and his brothers had a Barracuda and a 440 GTX so I never really cosidered Fords, I always wanted a 70 Chevelle SS. When I was 18 I tried to get a loan for an 87 Grand National but couldn't get that big of a loan for a car that wasn't new. That same week my friend saw a silver 86 Mustang GT for $2500 right down the road from my parents house, but no one had the $$$ to lend him so we came up with the idea that I might be able to take out a $3000 loan to buy the car and pay off taxes I owed while helping out my credit at the same time. Then he would try and save money and buy it back from me in a few months. I ended up getting a secured loan (thanks to my grandma) and drove the car for a couple months (got my first race a few days after got it with a tighted out Acura and smoked it) until I drove it through a deep puddle and locked up the motor. My friend had no way of buying the car at the time so I ended up buying a 429 to swap into it (which is still at a machine shop 4 years later). A few months later we cosidered it my car and I replaced the 5.0 shortblock knowing the big block may take a while and cruised it for a couple of years until the trans went out. Then I swapped a 350 into my 1985 Chevy Astrovan (parents bought it in 86 and gave it to me when I turned 16) which went through 2 engine rebuilds last year and a new transmission. It got broken into last winter and my bike/cd player/tools/etc got stolen along with some damage to the van so I figured it wasn't worth the money I had put into it which was around $5000. I totaled it out and sold the engine/trans/etc and bought a 1990 Mustang 5.0 coupe in january. Since I started driving the 86 GT I realized mustangs are pretty quick for the money and probably have more available for them than any other car, plus they look good. As far as how I got on this site, I think I may have found it when I was looking into the Big Block engine swap for my 86. Anyway, thats my story.