EXTREME MUSCLE
Jason the photographer snaps away at an angry-looking bright red Mustang, which sits for the moment deathly quiet – but still menacingly – in the corner of an Essex industrial estate. We pinch ourselves to check what we’re looking at is real: build number 252 of just 300 SVT Cobra Rs supplied worldwide as a 2000 model, and bone stock as it left the Dearborn, Michigan factory over 20 years ago.
The car certainly doesn’t look two decades old. In fact, what was once slightly unloved styling is now looking very fresh indeed.
“Maybe it’s just ripening enough to become more desirable”, shrugs the owner Peter Gale, “but if not, I don’t mind. I didn’t buy it as an investment, I bought it because I love it.”
Peter is the archetypal Mustang fan – in that he was inspired at an early age by a loud, brash car, which stuck with him ever since.
