one of fifty
Phil Jones - New Zealand (Auckland) 2019 Dark Highland Green #K0301
Modifications - Redline hood struts; painted fuse box, coolant tank , brake reservoir cover, all in DHG; DHG painted kick plates on door interiors; all interior lights switched to LED; tower strut brace (not fitted to US export Bullitts)
In early 2018 I was happily driving my first Mustang, a magnetic GT with manual transmission. I fell over a YouTube clip of the Detroit Motor Show and the launch of the new Bullitt, which really impressed me.
A few days later I saw a press announcement from Ford Australia that the Bullitt would be built in right-hand drive and exported to Australia and New Zealand. I rang the dealer who told me that NZ had been allocated only fifty. I dropped everything at work, raced up to the dealership and gave them my deposit but at that time the pricing and specifications were unknown. Subsequently the price was issued and all the Bullitts were to have MagneRide suspension and Recaro seats. I got my VIN number at that time so I could print out my window sticker (framed at home in Dark Highland Green) and a build date of early June. Later I was able to track the "Titania," the Wallenius Wilhelmsen car carrier, as it left Baltimore, sailed down the US East Coast, through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific via Tahiti. On a cold September morning, I was standing on a harbourside jetty at 5am in the dark watching the Titania and her precious cargo enter Auckland harbour. The dealership took my GT as a trade-in at what I considered to be a fair price and sold it 3 days later without having even detailed or advertised it.
I love the Bullitt's understated looks, the unusual colour and the exhaust note. My grandsons like being collected from school in it and their trips to swimming lessons and anywhere else. What more could a Bullitt owner want?
Modifications - Redline hood struts; painted fuse box, coolant tank , brake reservoir cover, all in DHG; DHG painted kick plates on door interiors; all interior lights switched to LED; tower strut brace (not fitted to US export Bullitts)
In early 2018 I was happily driving my first Mustang, a magnetic GT with manual transmission. I fell over a YouTube clip of the Detroit Motor Show and the launch of the new Bullitt, which really impressed me.
A few days later I saw a press announcement from Ford Australia that the Bullitt would be built in right-hand drive and exported to Australia and New Zealand. I rang the dealer who told me that NZ had been allocated only fifty. I dropped everything at work, raced up to the dealership and gave them my deposit but at that time the pricing and specifications were unknown. Subsequently the price was issued and all the Bullitts were to have MagneRide suspension and Recaro seats. I got my VIN number at that time so I could print out my window sticker (framed at home in Dark Highland Green) and a build date of early June. Later I was able to track the "Titania," the Wallenius Wilhelmsen car carrier, as it left Baltimore, sailed down the US East Coast, through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific via Tahiti. On a cold September morning, I was standing on a harbourside jetty at 5am in the dark watching the Titania and her precious cargo enter Auckland harbour. The dealership took my GT as a trade-in at what I considered to be a fair price and sold it 3 days later without having even detailed or advertised it.
I love the Bullitt's understated looks, the unusual colour and the exhaust note. My grandsons like being collected from school in it and their trips to swimming lessons and anywhere else. What more could a Bullitt owner want?