You’d think Paul Stewart would have some bad memories of his 1994 Ford Mustang GT convertible. Sure, it was his first new car, and it was a very cool ride for a young car geek to get his hands on. But the car didn’t have a very long life, and its last day on the road was not a pleasant one.
“I bought it brand new in the spring of 1995. It was a dealer demo car, had 6,000 miles on it,” recalls Stewart, a resident of Greendale, Wis. “… It was one of the Indy Pace Car festival cars, so it was one of 1,000 cars that they made just to take celebrities around and what-not during the race, and then distributed them to dealerships to sell.
“I drove it almost 9,000 miles that first summer and fall, and I drove it that entire next summer and I was getting ready to put it into storage and an 84-year-old guy ran a stop sign and T-boned me. He hit me on one side and pushed me into another car. So I got hit by an F-150 on one side and another guy on the other side, so the
