{"id":30,"date":"2010-03-25T20:36:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myunclesmustang.com\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2010-05-26T22:48:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T02:48:02","slug":"the-idea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.myunclesmustang.com\/?page_id=30","title":{"rendered":"The Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many influential people in my life \u2013 Family, friends, musicians, authors, poets. The greatest influence is my father,\"\"<\/a> Danny \u2013 his values, beliefs, sports teams, his creative lust, etc. \u2013 I follow my Dad in nearly every respect. My Dad will tell you I take after his brother, Pete. That could be why I feel an affinity toward my Uncle and consider him an influence, also.\u00a0I didn\u2019t know Uncle Pete well like other influences, but he remains, even 11 years after his death, one of the most influential people in my life.<\/p>\n

So I got the idea for this blog not too long ago. I have been sitting in a creative swill for as long as I can remember now, looking to being creative in work and with my house among other things to pull myself out of the muck. Work? Well \u2013 I had hope there, but that didn\u2019t do it. Big surprise, huh? The house? I love my house. I have owned it alone and with my wife for almost 13 years now. I have remodeled it, and enjoyed doing it for the most part \u2013 but it wasn\u2019t until after I bought a plastic scale model of a \u201866 Mustang Fastback that I thought of something that really grabbed me.<\/p>\n

My interest in Mustangs began with my Uncle Pete\u2019s sky blue Pony Edition model and continued with my Uncle Jimmy\u2019s from what I can remember of his. When my sister Christy bought a beautiful white convertible GT in 1994, I had to have one myself \u2013 and I did by 1996. A red convertible GT \u2013 a car I love, and one that I still proudly own.<\/p>\n

So I often asked my Dad, \u201cwhat ever happened to Uncle Pete\u2019s Mustang?\u201d He never really knew and didn\u2019t want to ask for some reason. My cousin Mary\u2019s son and Uncle Pete\u2019s Grandson, Doug (Dougie when he was like 5) inherited the car. So did Doug restore it? It was in rough shape the last time I saw it \u2013 interior rips, a buckled fender, some rust I think. Not to mention the unknowns like the shock towers, the floor boards \u2013 all of the usual Mustang aging glitches. Did he actually take it? Did they sell it?<\/p>\n

So back to the scale model \u2013 I was thinking, \u201cok, I need to find out what happened to Uncle Pete\u2019s Mustang.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care much for Facebook \u00a0– but my cousin Mary (Pete\u2019s daughter) and I are \u201cfriends\u201d on Facebook, and I wrote her to ask what happened to the Mustang. I was afraid of the answer, but guess what?<\/p>\n

The Mustang is\u00a0still in Florida.<\/em> So I am now hoping to find out if she and her son Doug (and Doug Sr. for that matter) will help me with my new \u201cproject\u201d\u2026..<\/p>\n

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