Late August 2012. Traded in my Audi A4 for that Mustang. Had wanted one since I was a kid. My mom had a 67.5 way back in the day and lots of my friends had them. Never had the chance. Moved out of the house that my wife was living in and started my life over again. Turned 40 the next month. Call it a mid life crisis, call it whatever you want. I call it starting over.

Mid September - driving to work on a nice warm fall day. Younger attractive woman with dreads pulls up at the light next to me in a Prius. I am minding my own business, windows down, music on. She screams over to me...."Hey, you are killing the f&(king environment with that thing!!!!) That night I got on the web and was looking for a F&(K your Prius sticker just for that lady when I chanced upon a site that sold funny car stickers. I found one that said 40+ MPG. I bought it, and it was born. The plate came a short while later. 40MPG was not available so I had to make do with FRTYMPG. I ditched the plate last year.