Came across this custom Roush Mustang surfing the web, the car absolutely looks fabulous. What really helps make this car stand out is the custom aftermarket hood, I actually think this hood looks better than Roush’s hood scoop hood. The color really flows well with the Mustang. If I was the guy who owned the stang I definitely would change the stock rims though, I’d throw on a nice set of CCW rims.
In celebration of Komen’s 25th Anniversary, Ford has a released a limited edition warriors in pink package for the V6 Mustang. $250 from the sale of each package will go directly to Susan G. Komen for the cure of cancer. This is really great to show how much Ford cares for women and today’s society. The package is really cool and I hope to see one out on the road this summer!
The Warriors in Pink Package highlights include:
Meet Molly Saleen and her Molly Pop Mustang. This is one of a kind hot pink Mustang that packs a punch with over 500hp and 475 lb-ft of torque. Molly and her car made appearances in the cross-country race, The Great American Run back in July. I’m not a big fan of pink, but I think the car looks absolutely gorgeous. Definitely would be a unique experience seeing this car on the road. Hope you had fun with it Molly at the American Run.
And yet another limited Mustang for ya guys!!! This one comes from R&A Motorsports, a performance company out of Lees Summit Missouri. Owner/ President Jeff Yergovich has been restoring Shelby Mustangs since 1975. R&A Motorsports Inc. specializes in Shelby Mustangs, but works on all 1965-1970 Mustangs, such as Mach 1’s, GT’s, Hi-Po’s, Boss 302/429’s and all other rare or specialty Mustang. Well Jeff decided to make a special edition S197 Mustang for only 96 people this year. The car will not have any major forced induction modifications like supercharger or turbo, but it will have some other nice mods. The car will have features such as a nice body kit, shaker hood, Foose Wheels, and a suspension upgrade. The picture Jeff took of his Twister Mustang is incredible, definitely one of the best photoshoped pictures around. Love the lightning bolts in the back!
Ok, I did a lot of researching on chroming stock rims. There’s a specific way you have to chrome rims or you will get pitting and peeling within a year. There are a ton of companies that do it the cheap way to save money. The cheap way can be just a 2 plating process. I’ll get into that later. Let me first get down to business on what the proper way of chroming your rims.
First, the company needs to strip the clear coat off your rims then polish them.
Second, the company needs to dip your rims in copper plating. After that they should polish the copper.
Third, the company needs to dip your rims in nickel plating.
Fourth, the company needs to dip your rims in a semi-bright nickel plating.
Fifth, the last major dip is in chrome. After that they should polish your chrome to a nice mirror finish.
So what it comes down to is you should at least have one plate of copper, two plates of nickel and one plate of chrome. Some companies even do two plates of copper just to have a very nice smooth finish. This is the proper process on having a set of bullitt proof chrome rims that don’t chip, peel, or pit.
See most companies will skip a few steps like adding only nickel and chrome. Or they might just do copper, nickel, and chrome. That’s not proper, you should at least have 2 plates of nickel. Whatever company you decided to use make sure you contact them first and have them describe their whole chroming process to you. A good chroming company will have a nice website that describes their whole chroming process in detail.
And please don’t get caught up in the word “triple plating.” That is a made up word for companies to make their product look safe and efficient. I actually bought a set of “triple plated” chrome gorilla lug nuts from Discount and let me tell you they are not plated right. Withing a year the chrome was flaking off, I even used a nice socket wrench with the soft filling inside so it wouldn’t mess up the chrome on the lug nuts. I looked under the chrome and there wasn’t any copper or nickel. So don’t fall for the whole “triple plating” chrome bit. Just ask these companies for their chroming process.
One other thing, there’s a lot of companies like Discount Tire that tell you that you shouldn’t wear your chrome rims in winter because of the salt. Well, I agree with them a little bit, I mean it’s not good to have salt on anything. But if the rims are chromed right it really should hurt them. See copper, nickel, and chrome can really make a rim really hard. It is actually very strong and very sustainable. I even have a story for you to back it up. I have a 1998 Oldsmobile Aurora that has a nice set of stock chrome rims. They came chrome from the factory and most car companies like GM or Ford will have the right chroming process done on them. Main reason is they don’t want it coming back to them and biting them in the ass. Well lets get down to my point here! I’ve had this car since 1998 and drove this car through every winter and every snow storm and still there isn’t any kind of flaking or pitting on the rim. That’s 9 years of salty winters, most chroming companies say that isn’t possible for chrome to hold up that long. That’s a bunch of bull, they just don’t want to tell you the truth about chrome. Well, that’s just about it. I just wanted to get my point across and I think I did.
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One of my favorite songs to play in my Mustang is Mustang Sally of course. It is a great tune performed by a talented singer Wilson Picket. Originally the song was written by Mack Rice in 1965, I bet a lot of you didn’t know that. Can you believe that!!! 1965!!! You would never think this beautiful song would of been written that long ago, boy was it ahead of it’s time.
According to music historian Tom Shannon, the song started as a joke when Della Reese’s band leader wanted a new Ford Mustang. Rice called the early version “Mustang Mama,” but changed the title after Aretha Franklin suggested “Mustang Sally.” I thought this picture flowed well together, so I thought I’d throw it up there. She looks like a Sally and went well with the car so what the hell!
Yet another custom Mustang, but this one is an old GT350. It’s pretty sharp, white and blue is one of my favorite color combinations.
Found this shot of a Ford Mustang next to a Mustang Horse in the desert. It’s rather exquisite and I thought I’d share. I’ve actually never been to a desert before so something like this made my imagination run a little wild. It would be great one day if I could actually take my 04 Cobra out on a desert road and top it out, now that would be an experience.
