I had been driving my 93 SHO, which was showing its age. My neighbour was a salesman at a local Ford dealer and brought one of the new S197s home. He threw me the keys and the rest was history.

I ordered one the next week. A sonic blue one. But as luck would have it there was no way the SHO would survive long enough (without major repairs) to see the new Mustang arrive. So Tina and I went to the dealership to see what was on hand. Tina didn't like the sonic blue, so I asked what colours she liked. She picked black, white and yellow. I don't like white, there were 6 new black cars at the office, so yellow it was.

We took it for a test drive just to be sure. During the drive people were continually taking pictures of us…errr the car. Brought it home with 6 kms on it; today there is almost 249,000.