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Bob Johnson has a very cool car.
He owns a 2007 Roush Mustang, number eight of 100 made. Ninety-nine are still in existence after one went over a cliff with the owner, and it is one of the rarest vehicles in existence. Needless to say, he takes care of it.
“I don’t even start to put a price on that,” Johnson said. “It’s just something I do and I buy the best that I can for it; whatever it takes to keep it up. You look at it as an investment than just a car, but I love to drive it. It turns heads everywhere you go and it’s done well in the shows so far this year.
“You can’t ask more than that—horsepower, beauty and a winner.”
One of the features is a retractable license plate holder, which folds under the front bumper by remote control. It’s one of the few problems he has had with the car.
“It’s kind of quit working right now due to the fact that I’ve drug it so many times,” he said. “Fortunately I’ve never been stopped running with it down all the time. It’s one of those things you’re intending to fix, but it just hasn’t been done yet.”
He got the vehicle after a fireworks display took out his other car, which was also a Roush vehicle.
“Their fireworks bounced off the hood and everything so I took the car up to Springfield to a glass shop. They had the exact windshield I needed and they put it in and [Springfield is] where the Roush dealer is so I thought, ‘While I’m up here I’ll swing by there and have a look.’”
Then he saw the car.
The following day he and his wife went to Branson and went back to Springfield to look at the car again. They discussed it over the course of a week and he called back.
“Like normal car dealers they didn’t want to give me nothing for my other Roush and it was a beautiful car, and we argued back and forth and I finally told them good luck with selling that car,” Johnson said. “One October day they called up and said if you’re willing to deal, we’ll deal and they dropped down to the price we agreed on.”
Bob Johnson has a very cool car.
He owns a 2007 Roush Mustang, number eight of 100 made. Ninety-nine are still in existence after one went over a cliff with the owner, and it is one of the rarest vehicles in existence. Needless to say, he takes care of it.
“I don’t even start to put a price on that,” Johnson said. “It’s just something I do and I buy the best that I can for it; whatever it takes to keep it up. You look at it as an investment than just a car, but I love to drive it. It turns heads everywhere you go and it’s done well in the shows so far this year.
“You can’t ask more than that—horsepower, beauty and a winner.”
One of the features is a retractable license plate holder, which folds under the front bumper by remote control. It’s one of the few problems he has had with the car.
“It’s kind of quit working right now due to the fact that I’ve drug it so many times,” he said. “Fortunately I’ve never been stopped running with it down all the time. It’s one of those things you’re intending to fix, but it just hasn’t been done yet.”
He got the vehicle after a fireworks display took out his other car, which was also a Roush vehicle.
“Their fireworks bounced off the hood and everything so I took the car up to Springfield to a glass shop. They had the exact windshield I needed and they put it in and [Springfield is] where the Roush dealer is so I thought, ‘While I’m up here I’ll swing by there and have a look.’”
Then he saw the car.
The following day he and his wife went to Branson and went back to Springfield to look at the car again. They discussed it over the course of a week and he called back.
“Like normal car dealers they didn’t want to give me nothing for my other Roush and it was a beautiful car, and we argued back and forth and I finally told them good luck with selling that car,” Johnson said. “One October day they called up and said if you’re willing to deal, we’ll deal and they dropped down to the price we agreed on.”
He doesn’t exactly remember the price, but he said it was in the $35,000 range, while the car sold new for $62,000.
“They had my old car and it took them three days to sell it,” he said. “In Mustang Nationals…we took third place, so it was a quality car. That’s why I wasn’t going to just give it to them.
“This is a quality car too. When I saw it was only eight of 100 and then doing more investigation of it at the SEMA shows…when this came out in ’06, Jack Roush decided he had to have one of them. They said then it’d be one of the rarest of the Roush’s. I was lucky and happened to come across it at the right time.”
The vehicle is autographed as well.
“This car originally sold at Batesville Arkansas at Mark Martin’s dealership and he autographed it there, and then a month ago Jack Roush and NASCAR were all running up at Kansas Speedway and a few days beforehand he was down at a Ford dealership doing an autograph session and he autographed that picture and he autographed my dash above Mark Martin’s signature,” Johnson said.
Johnson took his granddaughter to the signing to get the picture autographed and said that Roush made a definite impression on him.
“He is a really fine gentleman,” Johnson said. “He talked with her and he was really happy to see younger people involved in his work. A very knowledgeable gentleman, he just treated you like he was one of us. I can’t say enough about Jack Roush. You can see how he got where he’s at.”
For those who missed the car show, Johnson is part of the Southwest Missouri Stang Gang, which meets the first Friday of every month at Granny Shaffer’s on N. Rangeline Rd.
