Hello all. I've been on this forum, but haven't really posted much. A few members that I talk to off the forum have pressured me to make a member ride thread, so here it is.
My time with this car began in 2013. I was fifteen years old, still on my learner's permit, and had been looking for a first car. Being fifteen and knowing nothing about cars, but still wanting something "fast", I wanted a Mustang. I had looked at a few cars I liked, for example a 1995 GT convertible, but didn't settle on any of them. I THOUGHT I wanted a Mustang, but something about them just didn't completely "do it" for me. I was dead set on one, however... That is, until mid-Jine when my mother showed me two cars he co-worker had put up for sale.
At first, I didn't really think I'd be too interested in either car. I wanted a Mustang, damnit, not a grandma car Buick or some weird Grand Am thing! That changed when I saw pictures of the Grand Prix. "Hey, that actually looks kind of cool!" I thought. Then my mom told me it was "Supercharged" and took premium gas. I had no idea what that meant, but hey, it sounded cool and I kind of wanted it. With my interest established, I ended up checking out the car and FELL IN LOVE WITH IT as soon as I got in it. We left with no real deal, though, as I still wanted to consider some options. A week or two pass, and I wake up one morning to my mom telling me to come downstairs. Sort of annoyed, I walk down to an open front door and my Grand Prix sitting in my drive-way. I was ECSTATIC and we immediately took it on a drive. Unfortunately, without my license, I couldn't drive it without my mother yet.
Of course, I got my license a couple of weeks later and have been driving the GTP since. Thought at the time I thought it was the fastest thing ever, some experience and a lot of research have shown me it's actually pretty slow in stock form, which brings me to where I am today. I did a little bit of reading and "planned" on modding my car for over a year before I even bought a single performance parts, partially due to a lack of knowledge/skill to install, and partially due to a lack of money to do so (No job at the time). That all changed when I joined here and got invited to hang with a few local w-body guys. (You know who you are). Right now my car is still basically stock, but I have a decent backup of parts I need to install. Soon, the build will begin, and my car will become significantly less slow.
But yeah, here I am a year and a half later. I now know what a supercharged does (LOL), cringe at the fact I thought V6 mustangs were cool/fast, and have all in all learned a LOT. Onto the point of the thread, here's the car...
Here she is after being freshly washed/waxed. 100% stock/unmodified at this point.
And here she is today.... Not much different, just an extra ding or two and with a little bit of rake.(It's not really that noticeable unless it's next to another GP)
Next post will have information on my build plan and plenty more pictures.