The old bloke and I were test-driving an Orange Fury Ford Mustang GT that we had hired from Hertz at Brisbane airport, since, sensibly, the car manufacturers don't talk to me. We were trying to answer the question we posed last week: why has Kelly Racing moved from Nissans to Ford Mustangs for next year's Supercar season?
Now, of course, we could have just rung Kelly boss Nick Ryan and asked him but what's the fun in that?
Anyway, we were burbling along the aptly named Bruce Highway listening to a few beats from the Dead Kennedys' debut album Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables.
Mick, who has a birthday coming up during our attempt to take line honours at the Adelaide Rally in December, sat bolt upright and slowly muttered "online brain surgery".
Getting back to the question of the day. Look, it's clear for about $67k the Mustang GT is a super buy. It's worth it for the exhaust note alone, as long as you don't go all wussy and choose to go to neighbourhood mode so the people next door don't know you have a V8 under the bonnet and that you're an immature hoon at heart. The car handles really well. Sports mode makes you feel like you're sitting inside a lion waiting to pounce.
So, easy to see why Kelly Racing shifted. Key thing for them is to keep Swiss superstar Simona de Silvestro in supercars.