It's all about that beautifully crafted engine!
I'm from a little younger generation but my story is the same and incorporates alot of what has already been said.
I was a teenager when the ZR-1 really came into it's own and I remember reading every article I could find about it. It wasn't untill 1997 that I actually saw one in person. It was sitting in the parking lot of the retail store I worked at in high school. I knew something was different about it but it wasn't untill I got closer and saw the emblem on the rear bumper that I realized how special it truely was.
Fast forward to college, my sophmore year for my final in speach class I gave a lecture over the "KOTH" and the famous article 0-100-0 featuring none other than Lingenfelter's mighty ZR-1. I got an A+ with a female professor none the less.
Time passed and by 2006 I had almost forgotten about the mighty car until one day I saw a '90 red on red at a local car lot. It was only the second time I had seen one on the street. Sure I had seen a couple at a car show here and there but not a driver. So of course I checked it out, kicked the tires and B.S.'d with the salesman but talk is cheap when you ain't got money. So I moved on and some other lucky guy bought it.
Not 8 months later I saw that same car back at the car lot and thought "what? this can't be"
, but it was.
I knew then it was now or never. Without hesitation I took it home that afternoon. 18 months later it has been the biggest PITA but I wouldn't trade it for the world. The permagrin that you get as soon as you turn the key, the punch in the gut you get stomping on it in 2nd at 20 mph and leaving tread as far as your rear view can see, oh and seeing every mustang guy's face through the rear view too.
