Jul '10

Written by Jim Edwards | 01 July 2010

"The Beast": A Performance Driving School Workhorse

The 1999 GT convertible you see in the accompany pictures was acquired new by Jim Edwards in July 1999 from Lake City Ford in South Carolina. It was ordered with the leather delete due to the Columbia, SC heat where I was living at that time. It was my daily driver for a number of years and in fact, it was in late 2000 while dropping off dry cleaning that Leah Gowan approached me and extended an invitation to join CRMC. The “Beast” as it was to become known remained a daily driver for a couple years and then a weekend driver when I acquired other mundane transportation to reduce mileage on the black beauty. Oh, if you notice that the front fascia looks unfamiliar for a ’99 GT that is because the “Beast” and one very large dog collided on I-20 early one morning and a used Cobra fascia was cheaper than a new GT one.

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