Terry Sullivan thought his Mustang II collection was complete until he heard about an original, 1,300-mile 1978 2+2 survivor for sale only miles from his northeast Ohio home.
Terry Sullivan was 5 years old when his father, Terrence, pulled into the family driveway in a brand-new Burnt Amber Metallic 1967 Mustang GT from LJ Trotter Ford in Wickliffe, Ohio. Terrence worked at a local manufacturing facility, and the Mustang GT was his first new car. While taking his first ride in the new Mustang GT, the 5-year-old could tell by the proud look on his father’s face that this Mustang was something special, and its purchase had meant a great deal to him.
During one of their weekly road trips of cruising the country back roads to their town’s Main Street, Terrence watched in his rearview mirror as a GM muscle car quickly approached. The two cars stopped side by side beneath the stop light on the four-lane road through town. Terrence instructed his son to get low. Doing as he was told, Terry quickly crawled down and laid himself across the floorboard with his mid-section resting on the carpet-cushioned transmission tunnel. From his
