Fun at Ford for a Few Good Bloggers

First, the FUN part: I got to drive the Mustang BULLITT Limited Edition! Three times!

Here's a video clip of someone else's turn that I shot with my new Instinct phone (note: I did clip off part of the raw video to get rid of some wind noise before the car got close enough to take over and I added the still frame at the beginning while I had it open in Adobe Premiere):

THANK YOU, to Scott Monty at Ford for having the wisdom to invite Yvonne and letting her bring me along to capture the visuals. You can learn more about Scott's thinking on this at his Social Media Marketing Blog. The event took place at the Ford Proving Grounds in Dearborn, MI (link to Google aerial view from Scott's post).

Now, I must admit that I'm old enough that I saw Bullitt at the theater several times, so driving this updated version of Steve McQueen's car on a track with a series of small hills and lots of curves really brought back memories and, no, I didn't get it airborn. But that puppy gets to 65 50 (we were only allowed to go 50 mph) out of a curve before you get through third gear and you're on the next curve ...