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Nancee Alana Kay Utter's Yellow 2003 GT
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I bought the 2003 GT May 12, 2003. I bought it the day before we left for the World Ford Challenge 6 in St. Louis, Missouri. When it made it's debut run in Modular Street, it had less than 500 miles on it. Respectably, it ran a best of 14.7. Granted, the weather was shitty.
• 3rd Place 1999 - 2003 Mustang - 2003 Old Fort Ford and Mustang Show
Fort Wayne, IN * July 19, 2003
Yellow Mustang Registry Member # 2661
Nancee Alana Kay Utter's Yellow 1999 V6 Coupe
Appeared in Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords May 2000 Issue Volume 13 No. 5
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 I purchased my first Mustang February 13, 1999. What I really wanted was a GT since my fiance and all our friends owned V8s. But I fell desperately in love with this little Yellow Mustang as soon as I saw it at the dealership. When I drove it off the lot it had 69 miles on the odometer. For the first six months I put over 1,000 miles a week on it. The only major change I made to it after I first got it were wheels. I couldn't stand the sight of the stock V6 wheels. I put 17x8 Mille Miglia MM2s on it. The car took on a completely different attitude after that. People who had never ridden in a Mustang or even liked them immediately liked the Yellow Stang. 
In fact, one of our friends had a Camaro and when he rode in the Yellow car, he decided to sell the Chevy and he bought a convertible and is currently modifying it. All of our friends drive Mustangs now. I remember sometimes getting up in the middle of the night because I couldn't sleep and I would go out and drive the Yellow Stang for hours, sometimes until the sun came up or I was too tired to drive anymore. I wish I had gotten the chance to do more modifications to her before she was wrecked. The last few moments I spent with her were some of the most painful moments in my life.  She was two years old and had 67,000 miles on her when the accident happened. Just hours before they were to haul her away for scrap, I sat there in the driver's seat for the last time, looking idly about: both airbags deployed, hood crumpled all the way back to the hood scoop, the front fascia torn from her body now lay haphazardly across the engine, driver's side door crunched in a quarter of an inch so it didn't close properly. I realized in that moment that everything that meant so much to me the day before was meaningless to me just then, in those last few moments. Perhaps it was supposed to happen, I thought. No, just a cosmic error. Things like this happen all the time.  But it wasn't just another car and few people outside the Mustang World would understand. I gazed ahead, teary-eyed, staring at some distant point far beyond the yellow paint and twisted body, a mere shell of what used to be one of the greatest loves of my life. I cared not at all if anyone witnessed me, as I held onto bits and pieces of yellow scrap, my arms wrapped around whatever I could still hold on to. I was saying good-bye in my own way, my tears streaming down my face, cheek pressed tenderly to the fender. She was leaking coolant, perhaps crying for me. Perhaps. I took one last look at her. The body bruised and broken forever, unfixable. Irreplaceable. The Yellow Stang had been my sunshine, my rays of happiness on the dragstrip, on the cruise lap, in my heart and everywhere we went together. As I signed the title over for her to be taken away, I knew then that the sun had stopped shining for me...forever.
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This site is dedicated, in loving memory, to the Yellow Stang.
I love you.
February 13, 1999 ~ June 30, 2001
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Nancee Alana Kay Utter's Mineral Gray 2001 V6 Coupe
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 I purchased the Gray Stang on July 19, 2001. It had 227 miles on it when I picked it up. It has the black V6 strip along the ground effect, which isn't as bad as it seems. At least the stripe is black and not as noticeable as I thought it would be. I searched about ten dealerships in my area for a Mineral Gray Stang and none could be found, so I had them put a search throughout all of Indiana and they found one left on the lot in Elkhart. In fact, the salesman at my local Ford dealership wouldn't tell me which dealership it was located. Bullshit in fact, because in order for us to get the car brought to Fort Wayne, he would have gotten a large commission for finding the car for me. I told him I didn't really wanna spend the extra money in doing so. He told me that was the only way they would bring the car to me. He made one grevious error. He had told me on the phone that the car was located in Elkhart.  I went immediately in search of an Elkhart phone book. I made two phone calls and found the car I was looking for. It had the dark charcoal interior with Mach 460 sound system. Exactly what I was looking for. My parents came up that Wednesday to sign the title on the Yellow Car and then we headed up to Harold Zeigler Ford and they had it sitting outside waiting for me, washed and keys inside. I pretty much knew that this was the car I was going to buy and two hours later, I was driving home in it. The insurance company had cut me a check for $17,000, so the Gray Stang only cost me $2,000.  Three days later, on Saturday, I entered her in her first car show in Warsaw, Indiana. It was so cool because I didn't do a damn thing to it, it was still so clean from the showroom floor. I drove it to the car show where it began to rain immediately. A few of our friends were there as well and they had brought their Mustangs. Our friend with his green 2000 GT was so confident he was going to win. My fiance and I left the show early and missed the awards. When we came back to our friend's house the next day, he informed us that he placed third and I placed second in the Mustang class. He was pretty pissed and I got to take home my first trophy. There were about eight other Stangs in our class. Taking the Gray Stang to Bunker Hill Dragstrip this summer, I ran a best of 10.5 in the 1/8. The Stang also placed third in the 20th Annual Mustang and Ford Show hosted by the Old Fort Mustangers Club of Fort Wayne, Indiana on July 20, 2002.
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• Lowering Springs
• 4.10 Gears
• Flowmaster
• 1/8 Mile: 10.37 @ 68.48
• 1/4 Mile: 16.05 @ 86.13
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• 2nd Place Best Mustang - 2001 Kool Kruisin' Car Show
Warsaw, IN * July 22, 2001
• 3rd Place 1999 - Present Mustang - 20th Annual Old Fort Mustang Show
Ft. Wayne, IN * July 20, 2002
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