Play Loud, Go Fast

Fender has come up with the ideal guitar for married men: it’s cheap, it’s simple, and, since it comes with its own car, it’s very practical. 

It’s the Custom Shop Shelby GT Strat – black with a silver racing stripe, one pickup, one knob. The car is a Shelby GT, a high-performance member of the Mustang family – black with a silver racing stripe, chrome wheels, 325 horsepower V8, lots of pickup, lots of knobs.

And it’s free! Or, at least, one guitar-plus-car is free. You have to enter a sweepstakes, of course, but if you win that counts as free, doesn’t it? And it’s even a better deal that it appears, since there were only two made, and the other Strat/’Stang combination sold at a charity auction for $600,000. What  reasonable person could give you a hard time about bringing home another guitar when it's free, it comes with a Mustang, and it's worth more than your house?

The Sweepstakes is designed to trumpet a new partnership between Ford and Fender, but so far I haven’t found out anything about what they’re going to do together now that the a cool guitar/car combination is already done.

[TJH]

Comments

[Monk]

ok! it goes along with the Grand Torino look they had last year. Red guitar with a white stripe ala Starsky and Hutch.

Now we'll need an A-Team scheme, how about a Scooby Doo and the mystery machine? Do I hear Knight rider? :)

[loopy Lou]

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[Mr. SG]

How about a 1964 Aston Martin, a Vox Phantom and a Super Beatle amp?

[Monk]

or a 74 Pinto, Fender Squire, and any Peavy amp?