28HopUp
04-16-2009, 11:51 PM
Hi Guys!
My name is Bill, and I'm known as 28HopUp on several car forums. I'm 43yo, married 19 years, and we have a 13yo son (and close to adopting a 12yo boy in Foster Care). I'm a Freemason, and I work in a family business doing contract packaging.
I've been into cars all my life. I still have the same 66 Mustang I drove in high school -
http://users.erols.com/hopup/66hopup.jpg
I bought my first S197, a 2005 4.0L/auto vert in Mineral Gray, on 05/05/05. I joined a Mustang forum that same week, and ordered my first modification a few days later (Chaser tailights).
http://users.erols.com/hopup/ohfive7.jpg
After doing a few mods to it, I gave that car to the wife and bought my own S197, a 2006 PP 5-spd coupe -
http://users.erols.com/hopup/newmeats.jpg
My best Naturally Aspirated ET with it was 14.312 (http://users.erols.com/hopup/14312.jpg) (not bad for a V6!). I sold that car last year to buy a 2005 Mineral Gray Explorer (growing family). I tried to race the vert, but after having a stick shift I found racing the auto to be boring. Somebody suggested I look for a 5.0L/5spd Fox body, and the 1985 SSP Mustang shown in my siggy ended up in my driveway a short time later. That car is now in the body shop. It will be redone in all-black, and will have original CHP spotlights and antennae. It will look like an unmarked Fox cop car.
Hope to see y'all at the track in the near future.
My name is Bill, and I'm known as 28HopUp on several car forums. I'm 43yo, married 19 years, and we have a 13yo son (and close to adopting a 12yo boy in Foster Care). I'm a Freemason, and I work in a family business doing contract packaging.
I've been into cars all my life. I still have the same 66 Mustang I drove in high school -
http://users.erols.com/hopup/66hopup.jpg
I bought my first S197, a 2005 4.0L/auto vert in Mineral Gray, on 05/05/05. I joined a Mustang forum that same week, and ordered my first modification a few days later (Chaser tailights).
http://users.erols.com/hopup/ohfive7.jpg
After doing a few mods to it, I gave that car to the wife and bought my own S197, a 2006 PP 5-spd coupe -
http://users.erols.com/hopup/newmeats.jpg
My best Naturally Aspirated ET with it was 14.312 (http://users.erols.com/hopup/14312.jpg) (not bad for a V6!). I sold that car last year to buy a 2005 Mineral Gray Explorer (growing family). I tried to race the vert, but after having a stick shift I found racing the auto to be boring. Somebody suggested I look for a 5.0L/5spd Fox body, and the 1985 SSP Mustang shown in my siggy ended up in my driveway a short time later. That car is now in the body shop. It will be redone in all-black, and will have original CHP spotlights and antennae. It will look like an unmarked Fox cop car.
Hope to see y'all at the track in the near future.