STANG Magazine January 2023 Editor's Choice Issue

MAGAZINE

Mustang enthusiasts have asked for a magazine that has no ads, no sales pitches, and no bogus “fillers” to eat up space. They have asked for a magazine that is free, easy to access, and nothing but focused on Mustang pictures and content. They have asked for a magazine produced and written by Mustang owners. They have asked for a magazine that highlights the daily drivers and the average Mustang that is driven and is not a trailer queen. They have asked for the chance to one day have their ride, their group, their club, or their cause to be recognized in print or online. It is our absolute pleasure to meet these standards and to give you STANG Magazine. We hope that both our message and our image will be seen in every Mustang community out there. Thank you Mustang fans and enjoy your ride!

- Daniel Ramey, Editor-In-Chief

TALKING WITH TJ

As we begin our journey into the descent of madness that is my mind and the crazy antics of my life, I would like to first introduce myself. My name is TJ, blah blah blah, that sums it up and all you need to know. Whew… got past the CRAP no one cares about! Now for the good stuff.

Mustang culture is one that is very unique and brings together people from all walks of life. One thing is for sure though, the STANG Mag crew isn’t your typical crew. We are a bunch of weirdos, oddballs, and outcasts. We party hard and live by our ride or die motto and have adventures like no other.

From partying in various spots all over the U.S., to touring some of America’s most haunted sites, to having my ass spanked by a beautiful Latina in Las Vegas in front of a restaurant packed full of guests (and owning it), it’s never a dull moment! All I can say is... strap in, rev the shit out of your motor, and let’s go!

IT’S A PLANE! IT’S A HORSE! NO, IT’S THE FORD MUSTANG

Welcome to 2023 STANG enthusiasts! We all have love for the car the has brought so much joy to our lives, but did you know where our heritage and lineage came from? Well, that is really up to debate and this has created some serious conflict between the different camps. Lee Iacocca was actually quoted for saying that the Mustang was named after a college football team that inspired him with their athleticism, just like his new sports car would inspire America, but Ford Designer John Najjar, who was involved in designing the Mustang prototype was a huge fan of the P-51 Mustang plane. Najjar felt the new car should be named after the plane that helped the US win the World War II, which would help the car embody the American spirit. The plane association was not used partly because of the problem of creating an appropriate logo. Another theory was that it was named by the Ford Market Research Manager and horse breeder Robert Eggert, after he was inspired when his wife gave him a book

JOKE OF THE MONTH

TO TELL ME MY ZIPPER WAS OPEN, THIS GIRL SAID TO ME, “YOUR GARAGE IS OPEN".. I ASKED,

YOU SEE MY FORD MUSTANG GT SUPER SPORT?"

She said “No, but I did see your mini cooper with two flat tires”

titled The Mustangs. So which version of the story is true? Well that is up to debate, after all, the car was originally developed to be called the Cougar, complete with a logo. However, it is commonly believed to be a combination of these theories.

Well, I prefer to think that the Mustang traces its lineage back to the P-51 Mustang. Why? because it is one badass plane. First the goodies... there are three different variants of the P-51 Mustang which was used in World War II. The First one which was the P-51A, was powered by an Allison V-1710-81 1200 hp, 12-cylinder V engine. The second was the P-51B, which was powered by a Packard Merlin V-1650-3/7 1380/1420 hp, two staged supercharged, 12-cylinder V engine. The third was the P-51D, which was powered by the Packard Merlin V-1650-7 1695 hp, two staged supercharged, 12-cylinder V engine. Holy hell that’s a lot of power! The fastest Mustang was the P-51B which had a max speed of 440 mph and had the highest max ceiling of 42,000 ft. The P-51A and P-51B

had four .50 Caliber machine guns and the P-51D had six .50 caliber machine guns.

This was a game changer in the European front. Initially, when the B-17 bombers went on raids, they were accompanied by the P-47, P-38, and Spitfire fighters, however due to the range of these fighters they could only escort the bombers so far until they had to turn back leaving the bombers to fend on their own. In fact, Luftwaffe fighters would often wait until the bombers were left alone to attack them. Well, the P-51 Mustang changed that and with the addition of drop-tanks to increase their range, suddenly the bombers had support which could escort them deep into Berlin and back. The P-51 Mustang in WWII destroyed an estimated 4,950 enemy aircraft in air-to-air combat and destroyed 4,131 aircraft on the ground, making them the highest scoring US fighter in the Europe Theater of Operations. In addition, two P-51 pilots received the Medal of Honor during World War II.

“DID

TALKING WITH TJ

IT’S A PLANE! IT’S A HORSE! NO, IT’S THE FORD MUSTANG

Perhaps one of the most iconic groups who flew the P-51 Mustang were the men from the 332nd Fighter Group known as the Red Tails, which were trained at a segregated air base in Tuskegee, Alabama. They got their name from the distinctive red paint used on their tail of their plane. Despite the many barriers these men had to face, they overcame and achieved legendary status through their skill and fortitude. These brave men escorted the Fifteenth Air Force into heavy strategic bombing raids into Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Germany from May 1944 to April 1945, in addition to making many successful strafing attacks on airdromes, railroads, highways, bridges, reiver traffic, troop concentration, radar facilities, power stations, and other targets.

Well, as you can see, this is one bad ass plane! Whether it really was the inspiration of our beloved Mustang or just a myth, who knows but I will say this, if anything and at bare minimum the P-51 and the Ford Mustang are both American designed and dreamed, and it was the P-51 Mustang that helped win World War II, which set the path for America until when the Mustang was developed. So, if the P-51 Mustang was not as influential in winning World War II, well, our beloved Mustang would not exist as it does today. So, cheers to the P-51 Mustang! Can you see the resemblance between the P-51 Mustang and the Ford Mustang in the pictures?

HUBERT SNYDER

BOSS TRIBUTE–1969 BOSS 5.0 TRIBUTE

AFTER ABOUT SIX MONTHS OF NOT HAVING A MUSTANG I PURCHASED THIS CAR. IT WAS IN 2001 AND MY PLAN WAS TO GIVE THE CAR A QUICK PAINT JOB AND ENJOY DRIVING IT.

I have always been a Mustang fan. My grandfather drove Mustangs when I would be with him and I believe that is what got me into them. My first driver was an 84 Mustang 4 cylinder. After heavy abuse from a young drivee the car had to go. My first project car was a 68 Mustang that my uncle gave to me. After years of working on it I unfortunately never got to complete it. After about six months of not having a Mustang I purchased this car. It was in 2001 and my plan was to give the car a quick paint job and enjoy driving it. A friend at a local restoration shop suggested that I strip the existing paint to bare metal in order to get a good quality job. That is where everything took off. While stripping the paint I didn’t find much metal. I did find a lot of body putty, rust, patches, and even a T shirt stuffed in the quarter panel to hold the body putty in place. Every time I did something to the car I would look at it and say well I did that so maybe I should make the next part better also. After 12 years of having time or money, but not enough of both at the same time, I was able to get the car completed with a lot of help from family and friends.

Currently I still keep adding small upgrades and custom touches to the car and driving it whenever I can. Living in

HUBERT SNYDER

BOSS TRIBUTE–1969 BOSS 5.0 TRIBUTE

central PA the car gets put away once the salt hits the roads and doesn’t get to come back out until after a good spring rain washes everything away. I now have a 15 year old son that is into Mustangs and other Fords and we enjoy hitting as many car shows as possible and working on the cars when we can.

In addition to the 69 Mustang I also have an 86 Foxbody Mustang as well as additional other trucks and projects. As for the future? Maybe a nice 15 or newer GT could join the family.

HUBERT SNYDER

MODS

• 5.0 Engine and T5 transmission from a 93 Mustang

• Calypso Coral paint with Boss striping painted on

• 17” American Racing AR500 wheels

• TMI seats and console

• Autometer gauges

• Custom airbrushed flames on dash

• Power windows, locks, and remote locks

• Magnaflow exhaust

• Hotchkiss front suspension

• Lowered 2” all around

PHOTO CRED: BROOKE SMITH

DARK KNIGHT RISEN

STEVE GRIFFIN

DARK KNIGHT RISEN–2019 GT

When making a decision to put my car back in STANG Magazine, I had to do something totally different from last year. I must have went through so many designs and different ideas to achieve the look that I wanted. When I go out driving and I see beautiful Mustangs (but most of them look the same), I knew that I had to build something that was going to exceed my car and last year‘s article. I wanted a car that was going to be different and stand out from the crowd. I’ve been getting the car ready as well to race in the One Lap of America, better known as the Cannonball Run so I need a car that is going to handle and be fast and drive 4000 miles and race at 10 race tracks in one week. I think I got a pretty good balance and I’m very happy to present you with a bad ass Mustang, “Dark Knight Risen”.

It took a lot of time and money and resources to make all this happen. I want to thank Palmetto Ford for stepping up and being a part of this build and I want to thank Graham Eubank. I want to thank AWE Precision Automotive Engineering for taking care of me on my exhaust. I recommend the 180 technology touring exhaust with no drone noise. I want to thank CBR Towing and Ron black for sponsoring me so if you ever need a tow and you’re in the Charleston area that’s the man to call. I want to give a big shout out to John at Carolina Tint & Wrap. The guys there did an amazing job on wrapping the car. I want to say thank you to Marlow Estates if you ever need a house to rent for a few days for weddings or vacations

I’VE BEEN GETTING THE CAR READY AS WELL TO RACE IN THE ONE LAP OF AMERICA, BETTER KNOWN AS THE CANNONBALL RUN...

STEVE GRIFFIN

DARK KNIGHT RISEN–2019 GT

look them up. I want to give a big thank you to Bryan Santana for doing the photo shoot and making this happen.

PHOTO CRED:

SANTANA PHOTOGRAPHY

MODS

ENGINE:

• JLT cold air intake

• JLT oil separator

• Dynotech headers and cat deletes

• AWE Touring cat-back

• Five star tuning E 85/93 performance tune

SUSPENSION:

• SR coil over shocks and springs

• BMR front and rear sway bar

Wheels and tires:

• SVE GT350R wheels

• Front 19 x 10.5 offset +25

• Rear 19 x 11 offset +50

• Michelin pilot 4S

• Front 285/30-19

• Rear 325/-19

EXTERIOR:

• Ford PP2 front splitter

• LS1 addons canards

• RTR side and rear splitters

• MP Concepts GT500 hood

• GT500 rear spoiler

• Red Chamaeleon headlight chip

STEVE GRIFFIN

DARK KNIGHT RISEN–2019 GT

MODS & SPONSORS

INTERIOR:

• Braum seats

• RPM roll bar

• Schroth six point racing harness

• Rear seat delete

• Wrapped by Carolina tint and wrap

SPONSORS:

• Palmetto Ford

• AWE Automotive Engineering

• CBR Towing

• CTW Carolina Tint & Wrap

• Marlow Estates

• Jax wax

• RPM race engineered rollbars

• Liqui Moly

MISS SHELBY

2019 SHELBY GT 350

ROLAND DE LOS SANTOS

MISS SHELBY–2019 SHELBY GT 350

THE SHELBY IS LITERALLY MY DREAM CAR. EVER SINCE THE ANNOUNCEMENT BACK IN 2013/14 ABOUT THE CAR I WAS HOOKED.

I’ve been a Mustang enthusiast for about 30 years. I’ve owned three since 1996. My first was a 1993 GT, Vibrant White, 5 speed manual. My second was a 2002 GT, Mineral Grey Metallic, 5 speed manual. That car was the first brand new, off the lot purchase I ever made. Had her for 15 years. The most recent is my 2019 Shelby GT350, purchased on February 9, 2020. I was also fortunate enough to buy her brand new off the lot as well.

The Shelby is literally my dream car. Ever since the announcement back in 2013/14 about the car I was hooked. She is everything I wanted in a performance vehicle from her styling to that amazing Voodoo engine. There is no

compromise in the car because she is the exact spec I wanted, from the color/stripe combo to all four available options. It’s almost three years since I brought her home and I still get butterflies EVERY time I take her out. She is my forever car and is not going anywhere. If I’m dreaming, I don’t want to wake up.

She has Ford Performance Sport Exhaust with Borla mufflers.

PHOTO CRED:

@RGH.MEDIA/RAUL HINOJOSA

MY FAVORITE MUSTANG

2017 SHELBY GT350

MARIE ZEPP

MY FAVORITE MUSTANG–2017 SHELBY GT350

HAVING A SHELBY TO REMEMBER HIM AND HONOR HIM HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING I WANTED TO DO. EVERY TIME I DRIVE THE CAR IT REMINDS ME OF HIM.

I have loved cars ever since I was a kid. The passion for the love of muscle cars comes from my dad. This car is in memory of him. He had a 1967 Shelby GT500 (Eleanor). He also had many other muscle cars through the years so being around cars growing up was something special he and I could do together. Having a shelby to remember him and honor him has always been something I wanted to do. Every time I drive the car it reminds me of him.

I have had several Mustangs including a Roush. This Shelby is by far my favorite Mustang I have ever owned. The power of the Voodoo motor along with the performance this car puts out is by far better than any other Mustang I have

owned. My Shelby was built by two females who have signed the engine. I think it’s cool that it was built and now owned by a female! People definitely look twice when they see a female driving this car!

All mods were completed prior to buying the car. It has everything done from gears, headers, exhaust, racing clutch, to Recaro seats, lowering kit, and Shelby wheels.

PHOTO CRED:

CARL BRUNNER

LANCE & JULIANNE PETERS

REAPER–2019 GT CONVERTIBLE

WE LOVE TO ENJOY EVERY SINGLE MILE THAT WE DRIVE, AND WHAT BETTER WAY THAN IN A MUSTANG.

I grew up in a Chevrolet household. Dad always had Corvettes and Chevy street rods. Our neighbor growing up had two Mustangs that just sat in the garage all of the time. He pulled the one out once a month to wash it, take it to dinner, then top off the fuel on his way home. The one I fell in love with was a 1996 GT Convertible. I still feel the SN95 body style is one of the best looking cars ever. The other Mustang that was in his garage never left the garage. I never understood why, and it wasn’t until later in life that I’d realize just how special it was. It was a 1968 Shelby GT 500KR, blue with white stripes, all original and with around 7,000 miles. There wasn’t a swirl mark in the paint. It was these two cars next door growing up that spearheaded my passion for Mustangs. I started out buying my own 2000 Mustang Convertible shortly after graduating high school. It was a V6 but I still

loved it. I had that car for eight years. It drove my wife and I on our first date when we met, away from our wedding, was with us on our honeymoon, and brought both of our children home from the hospital when they were born. Not long after our second child was born though, we came across a 1967 Chevrolet Impala, four door hardtop, that we had been searching for for over three years (we are huge fans of the show Supernatural). We still have the Impala to this day and it will one day be passed on to my son, Benjamin. Being young, the only way we could afford to buy it was to sell the Mustang, so we moved on from the Mustang at that time. Years later, as we got older, my wife and I were missing cruising around in a convertible, so we bought an older C4 Corvette. As nice as it was, it always bothered me that it wasn’t a Mustang. We sold it about a year after buying it. We looked for a while and I ended up buying a beat up old 1998 Mustang GT Convertible. I spent a year working at getting it on the road. It wasn’t a car you could drive every day and I was yearning for that again. We ended up selling the 1998 and on the day the buyer picked it up, we went and bought our 2019 GT Convertible.

LANCE & JULIANNE PETERS REAPER–2019

GT CONVERTIBLE

I drive this car 45 minutes to work one way, every single day, as long as there isn’t snow in the forecast. I bought the 10 Speed auto for the increased acceleration, gas mileage, and for the benefit of my knee sitting in traffic when we are down in Rehoboth at our beach place. As much as my wife and I love the beach, our favorite thing to do is to put the top down and listen to the exhaust rumble while cruising down Route 1, enjoying the views of the beach and bay on either side of us. We bought “Reaper” a day before our 12th anniversary in 2020. We have spent the 2 1/2 years we’ve owned her now upgrading, loving, and making memories in her. There are many years of this continuing as well. We have plans to get her wrapped with a custom wrap at some point coming up soon. I’m not one for being plain, so I can only tell you that it will be pretty extreme and not for everyone, but Reaper isn’t for everyone. It’s for my wife and I. We pride ourselves in doing all of the work ourselves. Besides the upcoming wrap, every mod so far and to come in the future will be installed by us. We

LANCE & JULIANNE PETERS

REAPER–2019 GT CONVERTIBLE

even painted the new front end ourselves. Is it perfect? No, but it’s ours and we are proud of that. Reaper has been slowly making her way out of the daily role. Future plans other than the custom wrap are a Hellion Twin Turbo system, Air Ride adjustable suspension, and a Nitrous Express Direct Port Wet system. As we upgrade, new items continue to get added to the list of future mods. After all, as car people, are our cars ever truly “finished”? My wife and I look forward to continuing our life with Reaper and always making strides to improve her every single chance we get. We plan on keeping this going until she gets passed down to my kids someday. We love to enjoy every single mile that we drive, and what better way than in a Mustang.

We love being a part of the following car clubs and groups: Deceptive Dreamz Car Club, Venom Outlaws, 1 Badd Ride, BGS Mustangs, Silver Mustang Registry, and the York Mustang Club.

PHOTO CRED:

MARC SWEITZER

• GT500 front bumper, hood, side skirts, spoiler with wickerbill, and GT350 fenders

• Streetaero rear diffuser

• Badge King custom 5.0 badges

• Black Accent package wheels

• Vertical Door Inc. kit

• Drake Competition Series GT logo fuel door

• MBRP Street catback exhaust system

• VMP Performance tuned

• BBK Blackout cold air intake

THE HULK

ISRAEL SOTO

THE HULK–2019 GT BULLITT EDITION

WHEN I HEARD THE CAR TURN ON IN THE SHOWROOM MY FIRST WORDS WERE “THE HULK”.

My story is not different from many. It started as a kid helping my dad around the garage, most of the times fetching for a tool while he was under the car mostly looking for the evasive 10 mm socket. I remember mimicking what he was doing with my Hot Wheels, pulling wheels off and trying to get them back on. Most of the time I would fail and probably had enough torn apart cars to build a Hot Wheels junkyard. On rainy days I would sit on my house porch with my neighbor friends and we would point out our favorite cars taking ownership of them, saying things like than one is mine or that crappy one is yours.

My Mustang passion began with a trip to the movies. We had a local theater that would play older movies really cheap and I remember seeing the movie Bullitt there for the first time. If you asked me back then I could not tell you

what the movie was about, but I could tell you every detail about the car chase seen. I probably saw that movie over ten times in one weekend alone.

I have owned my share of Mustangs through the years: a 1969 Mach 1, 1981 302 with T tops, a 1986 GT and a 1995 GT. There has been three iterations of the Bullitt and the first two I wasn’t impressed with. But when I saw the promo video for the current one I said I had to get one. I was unable to get one right away unitl one day while researching for the current Mach 1, I saw my car at a local car dealership. I told my wife where the car was and before you knew it we were at that dealership. I kid you not it took us fifteen minutes to make a deal. The car was in the showroom floor and I was willing to buy it without even taking it for a test drive. When I heard the car turn on in the showroom my first words were “THE HULK”.

PHOTO CRED: RAYMOND EVANS

• Steeda H pipe

• Steeda stage 1 tune

• Shelby CS11 20 inch staggered wheels

• Carbon fiber steering wheel

WIFE ,S PROMISE

CHAD REISNER

WIFE’S PROMISE–2003 MACH 1

The Ford Mustang runs in my family. At one point, my family’s household had a total of seven Mustangs at once, ranging in years from 1994-1999. When I graduated high school in 2003, I was given a 1996 yellow Mustang. I had that car from 2003-2012 and drove it in the winters of Minnesota the last two years I had it.

In 2012, I had just met my wife. We weren’t dating at the time, but I called her after I sold the Mustang and she promised if we ended up together she would buy me another one to replace the 1996. Fast forward to 2019, I was browsing Facebook and found the Mach 1 for sale only a few blocks from our home in Inver Grove Heights, MN. We went to look at it and took it for a drive and I fell in love with it. My wife could tell immediately that I wanted the car. The next morning, as my wife had promised me, she went to the bank and took out the loan to buy the car. She kept her promise.

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IN 2012, I HAD JUST MET MY WIFE. WE WEREN’T DATING AT THE TIME, BUT I CALLED HER AFTER I SOLD THE MUSTANG AND SHE PROMISED...

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ON THE HORIZON

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SEPTEMBER 1ST SUMMIT POINT, WV

OCTOBER 30TH SEMA

“JUST THE TIP

WAIT, YOU’RE PUTTING THAT IN THERE?

We’ve seen multiple tropes/memes/videos about people falling for the “Better get the winter air in your tires! It’s January! LOL!”. True that it’s funny, but did you know that there kind of is such a thing? Winter air? We could call it Summer air as well.

You put air in your tires, and typically, it is just that. Air. What we breathe every day. But ‘Air’ is a mixture of different gases. Roughly – 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and small amounts of other gases such as neon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, etc. Here’s the ‘science-y’ part. Winter air, or Summer air, is not the air that we breathe. It’s the nitrogen only.

What’s the difference you may ask. Oxygen is prone to expansion under heat, or contraction in the cold. Take a hot air balloon for example. They blow in ‘Air’, apply heat through a burner which causes the molecules to expand, then they let a little bit of that expanded air out of the top of the balloon, causing less air pressure inside the balloon than there is on the outside, so the balloon goes up. What is expanding in the balloon are the oxygen molecules.

Nitrogen molecules have a larger structure and are far more stable in heat/cold. They do not expand as much. Filling your tires with nitrogen will give you a far more stable air pressure profile, regardless of if it being the middle of Summer in Arizona, the middle of Winter in Minnesota, racing on the street or racing on the track. Your tire pressure will stay the same which we know greatly decreases tire wear and improves performance.

The downside of course is that it’s going to cost more to get air in your tires and it’s not widely available. But for performance/racing applications, it may be something to look into! And stop picking on people who get Winter air. They’re not out of their minds.

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Editor-In-Chief: Kaitlyn Ramey

Creative Director: Chuck DeKett

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Analytics Director: Tim Perry

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Scott Bieber

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Lisa Cook

Mike Everett

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Doug Smith

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Mark Dennis

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Laura Mattern

Dan Medina

Dave Moyer

Tija Moyer

Brad Peterson

Michelle Van Sickler

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Mark Ide

Laura Ide

Joerg Werner

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Rayn Hoch

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Jeff Dixon (Southeast Region)

Janie Cantu (Midwest Region)

Don Houston (Midwest Region)

Roberto Marty (Midwest Region)

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