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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