Hi, my name is Katy and I was born on September 27, 1965, in Dearborn, Michigan.  I was always a “sporty” gal, what with my 289 V8 and I liked to take my top off (if you know what I mean).

The 60’s were very, very good to me, so I don’t remember much about them, or the 70’s and heck most of the 80’s.  I do remember; however, winding up in Kerrville, Texas on a used car lot, where they started to rejuvenate me.  I knew however, that I was a long way from St. Louis where I was delivered to.

Steven and Marissa got me away from those people and took me to a nice ranch outside of Fredericksburg, Texas.  I thought I had gone to a nice retirement in the country (I can still smell the peaches), but when Steven put me in the pole barn, all these crazy critters wanted to well…..use me!  The goats rested on me during the hot Texas days, the chickens roosted and laid eggs in me during the night, the mice and rats love

d making nests all over me and even the yellow jacket wasps made nests on the inside of the windshield!  I don’t know how long I was asleep there, but one day the most embarrassing series of events started happening.  Someone, I think it was Mark, put a chain over my, excuse my rudeness, “rear end” and Steven hooked that chain up to a Ford tractor and yanked me out of my home!  I knew I was out of shape, but did you guys really have to use a tractor to get my lazy “quarter panels” out of that barn?  Then it got worse, I couldn’t roll up on the trailer.  Steven’s brother and his buddies, who had been riding 3- and 4-wheelers, all came over and picked me up so rudely and set me on the trailer!  Mark and Dawn hauled me into Fredericksburg’s 25¢ car wash and gave me a nice bath, shoot, they even massaged me with the foam brush!  That was in March 1990.

I was in Mark and Dawn’s back yard with a tarp over me for a couple of years while Mark took me apart, piece by piece, and put all these pieces in little plastic bags and wrote stuff on those bags.  He even had a little helper come along and she had a name that some of my brothers had, but Mark and Dawn spelled it “Shelbie”.

Over the years, Mark worked on me when he could, he took my unibody to have it completely submerged in stripper, right down to my bare metal skin (I really felt Naked!).  He then washed me up and put acid etching primer over my whole body.  Next thing I knew I was on a rotisserie and Mark was cutting out bad metal and putting in new, I was getting a Complete Makeover!  The bottom side of my body got seam sealed and painted black acrylic enamel with hardener and he installed subframe connectors.  My interior metal was seam sealed and painted white (my original color).

A Lincoln Versailles rear axle was rebuilt with a “Randy Meyer” traction lock 3.70 gear set and installed in the disc brake housing.  Randy Meyer also rebuilt all of my power steering components and steering box to original Ford specs.  Mark installed front disc brakes (4 caliper) and I was ready to come off the rotisserie and hit the ground after 3 years.

Somewhere in that 3 years, Mark and Richard bought Alamo Classic, so as a rolling chassis, I was towed there so my balanced and blueprinted 5.0 litre engine and T-5 transmission could be installed and I was running again!  After making me “street legal”, Mark set about in getting me painted and after hiring and firing 6 different painters or shops, he decided that Michael Ramirez, who already worked at Alamo Classic Mustang, should take a crack at painting me because he was a student at Saint Phillips College’s paint and body program.  Michael put epoxy primer on and block sanded it twice, once happy with how “Groovy” my voluptuous curves were, he put on the sealer, 2 coats of Wimbledon White base coat, 2 coats of  Blue Pearlesence metallic, Guardsman Blue Lemans stripes and 4 coats of clear.

Dawn designed a blue/white pony upholstery to keep the Lemans stripe theme running through the interior and Mark had my rollbar powder coated.  Kaitlin named me “Katy”.  Curtis at Alamo Classic designed and installed a Pioneer, 8 speaker, 600 watt, AM, FM, Cassette, and 6 disc changer CD.  Hey, Mark and Curtis even gave me some “SAS”, come check it out!  I never had those kind of tunes in the 60’s.

                     We are ready to cruise again.  Hey, “Are we on Overhaulin?”