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Greetings from New Mexico Fellow Bullitt-heads! I just wanted to post my first post, and tell the tale of how I stumbled across my 08Bullitt #5106 this past Labor Day weekend. The wife and I had an 06 Expedition Limited that we had no use for (no kids-high fuel costs) and we were upside down on of course. In the weeks leading up to Labor Day we had discussed getting a fun car and trade in our Expedition. It all started when we got a new Dodge Diesel pickup and the wife liked an 08 Charger SRT8-SuperBee they had in the showroom. The price was ridiculous and it was automatic. It was also a big sedan which to me was like an overpriced/over-optioned rental car. It was one out of 1,000 but it still didn’t do much for me and it was still way over priced at like 48k, the price of a GT 500. We also didn’t really want our payment to go up. Two days before Labor Day weekend we test drove a 08 Corvette because of the GM employee pricing. It was nice—really nice, but man; even with like $8,000 down the payment would still go up about 180 bucks per month. We didn’t really want to wipe out our savings and pay close to 200-bucks more per month, I wasn’t really crazy about it, and Chevrolet has done a good job of turning me off over the years. And that’s coming from a guy who was born and raise on Chevy’s! We kinda put that idea to rest as we got ready to go on a camping trip for the Labor Day weekend. We decided, that while the Vette was sweet, it was just a bad idea; not to mention I’m not much of Vette guy. On the Sunday of our camping trip, it rained so we were inside our Travel Trailer and I tuned in to the one local channel I could get on TV. On one of the commercials I saw where Ford brought back 0% financing for 72 months. So that of course got the wife and I’s minds going a million miles an hour. First we sympathized that we could’ve gotten the Lariat Super Duty we had wanted had we known they were going to bring back 0% for 72 months. I calculated that our Expedition payment could go down about a hundred bucks a month if we opted for a brand new Mustang GT 5spd. So I got on my cell phone and called one of the big Ford dealers in Abq, NM (Rich Ford) They told me they had like 11 Mustang GT’s and to come on down. “We’ll be here till 8 tomorrow night,” said the sales guy. So we decided to leave camp about noon that Monday to make it down there by 5-6 that evening. As we’re finally getting into Albuquerque, I get on the cell to make sure they still have a GT for us. Next thing I know the jerk says, oh we sold them all except for one Bullitt, and it’s at another dealer, and we close at six. “Okay, too bad, I guess you lost out on a sale,” I told him. Tomorrow would’ve been to late because of the 0% for 72 months expiring that evening. So I call the other big Ford dealer in town Bob Turner’s Ford. “Oh yeah, we have 3 Bullitts. I knew briefly about the Bullitts in 01 and little about the 08’s. We had owned a 03 GT Conv. a few years back so I wasn’t completely unknown to Mustangs, however, the GT 500 Shelby was what I had wanted, but I wasn’t too crazy about the looks of , just the horsepower. I hadn’t kept up with the latest news regarding the 08 Bullitt however, so it was a surprise to see a 08 for the first time. As we walked to where they were at out the dealer doors, they had the three parked facing each other as in a circle and man they looked cool. They had two black, and one dark highland green. One of the black ones was fully optioned with the ambient lights, shaker 1,000 and HID lights and I started looking at that one, but when I went to the side where the sun was hitting the green one, I was like “this one’s mine!” Upon first glimpse of that machine turned dash I was sold. My first car was a 1963 Chevy Impala SS which had a small amount of that machine turned aluminum. Of course the Bullitt’s dash looked so much better though! Once I got behind the wheel and we all went for a test drive, the wife, salesman and myself, and man was I sold! The car drove like a late sixty’s Camaro or Mustang! Ever since Gone in 60 Sec’s came out in early 2000’s, I had my heart set on a 67-68 Mustang Fastback, or 69 Camaro, but suddenly this car filled all those desires immediately! Plus I was surrounded by all this aluminum with a mean sounding exhaust and super comfortable seats, a wicked shifter, MAN was I SOLD right then!!! All that; and it was rated at 23mpg highway! Collector cars are great with their timeless lines, and performance engines, but that’s where the comfort ends. They are all kinda scary at high speeds on curves and such and not very comfortable. Plus you have to worry about rust and prior body work and such. Not to mention the high dollars one has to come up with for an old FastBack or 69 Camaro. After we test drove, it took a bit of negotiating to get them where I needed to be on my trade, but we got them. While they approved our credit we went on a second test drive, just the wife and I. At that point I knew it was ours! As we drove the car home that night I couldn’t get over how comfortable the car is and how well it handles. That was almost 2 weeks ago. All I can say is Man I love that car! It sits in my garage, and is obviously not a daily driver. It’s got about 400 miles so far. We tinted the windows so far, and that’s probably where the mods will end. I’ll probably wax it here pretty soon with either Mother’s or Zaino to intensify that killer green paint. And that’ s the story of how we set out to buy a 08 5spd GT, and fate steered us to the 08 Bullitt. Oh, and our payments actually went down! I couldn’t be happier. The GT 500 Shelby is one bada$$ piece of machinery, but the 500 horse power would’ve surely gotten me into jail before 4th gear. One other pet peeve I have with the GT 500 is the Paint scheme and wheels. There’s probably been like 5 times where I’ve seen one on the road and I tell the wife or my buddy “look there’s a Shelby GT 500!” only for it to turn out to be a 6cyl or GT with nice racing stripes. As for the Shelby GT 500 wheels, I feel like Ford could’ve tried a little harder. The original 60’s GT 500 wheels were so cool. The Bullitts stand out on their own. Then considering the history of the Bullitt, it’s just makes it such a cool thing to own. As one online article put it “40 Years of BadAss Subtlety.” I’ve noticed that the car is very stealth and most people don’t give it a second look, but the one’s who do stare tend to rubber neck rather severely. Of course when you go through the gears and RPM’s people stare from afar to see what that mean green machine is thundering down the blvd.
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