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.