My Dad Up And Getting A Classic Ford Mustang

Well, I haven’t much been able to talk on this weblog nearly as much as I had expected, owing to all the time I have been running around town with my old man fuel his super nutball midlife crisis. Well, I suppose it’s not quite as nuts as it could possibly be. Basically what he did was to get himself dressed up like the Fonz or something, and come over to my apartment and tell me, in his jazziest dialect: “Come on in, bro, you and I are going out vying for some classic Mustangs. That’s right, dude, I’m all set to get myself a real cruiser.”

Right then and there my Dad and I were hopping around to all of those weird vintage car showrooms that everybody is just about convinced the mob owns and operates, and I watch the dude wrote a check right there on the spot, for an extremely well-preserved classic car. It’s an intense purchase. It made some great noise as well.

I want to point out that I phrased that in the past tense. It had a great sound right up to the point that it became silent. My pops says that it’s a easy fix and he just needs to find the right part. The problem is, it may not be as straightforward to locate 1965 Mustang parts as it was over a thousand years ago, but my pop insists that there’s a really good-sized aftermarket for them to this day. Apparently the the easiest way to find parts for 1966 Mustangs is actually web auctions, because you can find them refurbished and occasionally even brand new. They’re only sometimes a steal, though… Come on, man, we’re talking about ancient classic car parts.

Not the worst midlife crisis ever, I guess. Imagine if he would’ve got himself a mail-order bride.

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