posted 11-11-2004 11:28 PM                  

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geez, you know how I like to tell loooong stories.....

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posted 11-12-2004 05:39 AM                  

....I have watched that Mustang ad over and over....it is possibly the best automotive advertisement EVER .....I went to the local Ford dealer the other day to look at a new black Mustang GT......must admit, it is the first Ford I have had much interest in in a very long time.....sharp car....

posted 11-12-2004 07:40 AM                  

None, before buying. Missed buying a black Y2K cat for MSRP by three hours because my deposit check couldn't be there in time before a guy from LA walks into the dealership and buys the cat I was promised the next cat that came to the Lincoln, Nebraska dealership. Wanted a black cat.

On Christmas eve, 1999,,,,,the call comes that the cat has arrived at the dealership. Only one small problem, it is silver instead of black. They knocked $500 off the price, and I mailed them the full amount. Jumped a plane to Lincoln on Jan 15th, 2000 and picked up the cat the next day. Drove it 7 miles from dealership to a friend work place,,,,,and put the nose on the first curb I parked at Was planning on staying there three days at my brother's home, but a fast approaching snow storm was approaching eastern Nebraska, so I decided to take off at 8:00pm on the day of delivery. Drove 100 miles west of Lincoln when first sprinkles of rain preceeding the snow started to fall. I immediately grab the first highway south and head for Kansas. Stopped in Salina, Ks to sleep a few hours in the cat, and then started west again along I-70 which was south of the snow storm hitting Nebraska. Drove all the way across Kansas battling 40 to 50 mph cross winds AND 614,000 tumbleweeds crossing the road in front of me Only hit half of them and had to stop every 50 miles to clean out the abundant amount of tumbleweeds that collected into the front A-arms and front bumpers [CJ is right, those front bumpers do have a purpose],,,,it was like I was a Prowler push truck out there on I-70 gathering all of those tumbleweeds collecting into the front of the cat Made it to Colorado and the weather cleared and it was smooth sailing all the way back to Phoenix. Made it back home, washed the cat, put the top down, and went out to enjoy the 79 degree January sunshine. God, this is a great place to live.
The end.

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Call 911 - there is a Prowler in my garage....
Y2K Silver Millennium Edition and '01 Orange Rolex Edition

posted 11-12-2004 08:46 AM                  

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Originally posted by ALLEY CAT:
Bell - I foresee a new Mustang Cobra GT in your future. If not, then Cookie will be seeking another affair with Mr. Bullet, lol.

What color are you thinking?

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anyone wanting to buy a new FORD product please contact me if you want to but it on the "X" plan, (same as DC's Friends and family) I have 5 more I can use before the end of the year.

posted 11-12-2004 09:07 AM                  

I have decided on the color for my Prowler project, and it is not orange......it is a Ford color from loooong ago.....going to get serious looking for another Kat soon....still trying to get all the parts together first...

posted 11-12-2004 09:46 AM                  

The orginal press on the car stated that they would be 25~30K. We felt we could afford that.

Sue and I fell in LOVE with the car.

I read all I could find about it saving or buying anything that had the PROWLER in the article. Once the toy company started making prowler toys, I STARTED BUYING them too.

In Feb of `96 I put a $1,000 to be able to buy the second car the dealer got, Dale Smith had put a grand down for the 1st one earlier that day. The deal was I got the second car for GREEN SLIP if chrysler would allow it or MSRP if not. Because of what the dealers did to the Vipers I thought MSRP on a Prowler when they were 1st released would be a good buy.

I got a lot of flak for putting money down on a car I didn't know when would be built or how much it would cost.

I would go to dealers that had them just to look at them, I left a lot of nose prints on the windows.

The 1st one I was able to sit in was Tom Amo's `97. He had brought it to our cruise night and we talked for a long time. I told him I had not been able to sit I one yet and if he would mind if I sat in his, which he said OK.

My car was delivered to the dealer on a Saturday. They didn't call me that day. The saleman that wrote up the deal was no longer there and they didn't have my number, but they had my dad's. So sometime that afternoon after I had went to work they called my dad. That evening Sue and my dad was in the parking lot when I was going out for lunch. dad told me that they wanted me to call the dealership. He didn't say why but I told him my car was in.

I was right and the next morning he and I went to the dealer to look at the car. I had butterflies standing next to it. it ws unbelievable to think this beautiful Yellow Prowler was actually mine. Off to the bank with the paper work and the next day Sue, Dad and I went back to the dealer to take delivery of the Prowler. On the drive home it rained on me so I got to clean it before going to work that afternoon.

I use to tell everyone that I was the poorest Prowler owner until JP came along and put it in his signature.

Before it ever came I was making plans for the Chrome grill & wheels (still want the chrome front end) and custom paint.

We bought the car July 15th, 1998. In November it was on the lift, wheels off to be chromed, me polishing the frame and everything else aluminum, December it was at the painters for the graphics, It had 17" wheels off a guy's Monte Carlo at the tire shop and white wagon wheels out of the trailer I was using.

I made it to the World of Wheels show in Indy in Feb. Most people had never seen a Prowler much less one with a custom paint job. I heard many comments about how it took HUGE B*LLS to do that to a Prowler

For those that have been to the house knows I have a few Prowler diecast. The magazines are all put up but I have stacks of them too. I was wanting to have the BEST collection of Prowler stuff but I think CJ has me beat plus she is a lot more organized. And Rich Ware has a fine collection by taking and painting one of each color, plus he has books organized with his paperwork and photo's.

posted 11-12-2004 10:12 AM                  

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Originally posted by WildCat:
For those that have been to the house knows I have a few Prowler diecast. The magazines are all put up but I have stacks of them too. I was wanting to have the BEST collection of Prowler stuff but I think CJ has me beat plus she is a lot more organized. And Rich Ware has a fine collection by taking and painting one of each color, plus he has books organized with his paperwork and photo's.

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posted 11-12-2004 02:44 PM                  

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Originally posted by WildCat:

For those that have been to the house knows I have a few Prowler diecast. The magazines are all put up but I have stacks of them too. I was wanting to have the BEST collection of Prowler stuff but I think CJ has me beat plus she is a lot more organized. And Rich Ware has a fine collection by taking and painting one of each color, plus he has books organized with his paperwork and photo's.

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Larry it has been awhile since I updated the books, but I am again adding to them. Hope to have them finished to bring to the Dells event and also Woodward. They will be loaded with pictures of modified Prowlers among other things. I have two 4 inch binders full of stuff and will porbably have to expand to a third before long. I have so many pictures to print it will very likely take that long to finish. Actually they will never be finished.

Our Prowler experience:
When I married Linda in 1984 I had a 29 Ford Coupe HiBoy Street Rod with a Mustang 289. The car weighed less than 2,000 lbs and was extremely fast. We both really enjoyed driving in it. When we moved from Utah to Georgia in 1985 we sold the Coupe to help finance our new home in Georgia. The plan was to replace it when finances permitted. Over the next 14 years we had a few toys but nothing we could really enjoy because they were either always in process of being restored or repaired and we were also busy raising the four of our six kids that lived with us. I first started seeing the Prowlers in magazines. I fell in love with it, but all the rumors of 90 to 100K price tags dashed my hopes of actually ever owning one. In 1998 I went to the Atlanta Auto Show and they had a purple Prowler there. I saw the MSRP was just under 40K and I told my son in law (who was with me) "I Can Do That". I went home and showed Linda a picture, but she was not impressed. Said she would rather I start looking for another Street Rod. Again my bubble was burst. A couple months later we went to an Oldies Concert which had a car show in conjunction. There was a dealer there with his personal purple Prowler and trailer. Linda saw it and asked what it was. When I told her she was surpised,that the pictures I had previously shown her did not do it justice and said she would love if we could get. I went to a friend who worked at the Chrysler dealer and told him I wanted to get a Prowler in about a year. He told me to just give him a month and half notice when I was ready. During the next year they got a couple Prowlers in at the dealer. Each time they would call and ask if we were ready. Each time we had to tell them we simply had to wait for the extra income starting June of 1999. I did eventually get to sit in one, when a yellow came in, but I actually had to beg before they would let me. Finally April 14, 1999 came around. I called my friend told him we were still serious and that we were ready to buy on June 1st. He called back in a couple hours and said he had a Prowler for us. I was thrilled, stunned and dismayed all at the same time. I reminded him I had to wait until June 1st. He told me not to worry, they would work it out so we would not have to start making payments until June. The Kat was in Alabama. We did the deal, they sent a slide away truck to Alabama to pick it up and on April 15th we drove it home. The rest is history.

posted 11-12-2004 11:56 PM                  

I forgot to mention that I applied for my personal license plate, PRWLR in 1996. I even had to pay to renew the plate one year before the car came in. The folks at the DMV were quite amused at that...

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SuperDave
1997 Prowler
2005 300C