{"id":8,"date":"2010-03-24T02:24:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T06:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myunclesmustang.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2010-05-19T21:40:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T01:40:20","slug":"the-idea-pete-danny-and-the-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myunclesmustang.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"The Idea: Pete, Danny and the Pony"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There are many influential people in my life – Family, friends, musicians, authors, poets. The greatest influence is my father, Danny – his values, beliefs, sports teams, his creative lust, etc. – 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’t 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 – I had hope there, but that didn’t 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 – but it wasn’t until after I bought a plastic scale model of a ’66 Mustang Fastback that I thought of something that really grabbed me.<\/p>\n

My interest in Mustangs began with my Uncle Pete’s sky blue Pony Edition model and continued with my Uncle Jimmy’s 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 – and I did by 1996. A red convertible GT – a car I love, and one that I still proudly own.<\/p>\n

So I often asked my Dad, “what ever happened to Uncle Pete’s Mustang?” He never really knew and didn’t want to ask for some reason. My cousin Mary’s son and Uncle Pete’s 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 – interior rips, a buckled fender, some rust I think. Not to mention the unknowns like the shock towers, the floor boards – all of the usual Mustang aging glitches. Did he actually take it? Did they sell it?<\/p>\n

So back to the scale model – I was thinking, “ok, I need to find out what happened to Uncle Pete’s Mustang.”<\/p>\n

I don’t care much for Facebook \u00a0– but my cousin Mary (Pete’s daughter) and I are “friends” 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 still 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 “project”…..<\/p>\n

More to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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