Mustang Girl Monday: Claudia Meyers Finally Gets Her Eleanor

It’s Mustang Girl Monday brought to you by Team Mustang Girls. This week we would like to introduce you to Claudia Meyers.

Claudia has always loved hot rods, as a kid, instead of dolls, she played with cars in the sandbox. She fell in love with the sound, the looks and the thrill of muscle cars. Claudia’s first real experience with a hot rod was when her brother taught her to drive a stick on his 1978 Berlinetta Camaro. It was red with t-tops and a racing clutch. He told her, ‘you learn to drive a stick on this, you can drive anything’. When he went to sell it shortly after she turned 16 she wanted the car so bad, but their dad said no because he didn’t want her to have such a fast car. That broke Claudia’s heart.

In high school, a few friends had mustangs and Claudia always loved their style and looks more than any other muscle car. Which led to her first muscle car, a ’88 Mustang GT Convertible, the car was black and silver two-tone. After that she had a ’90 GT convertible, silver, with plates that said IOSLVR. She did stray a bit with a ’68 and a ’69 Firebird but Claudia always came back to the Stangs.

“My biggest love affair is with the 1967 GT500E from Gone in 60 Seconds, Eleanor. I fell in love with the pepper gray color with the black stripes. I swore some day I’d have one”. Although she may have to win the lottery for the real one, one day she was driving home from work and saw her “this is it” Mustang. It shouted Eleanor! They had it sitting up on some ramps in the front row right off the highway. Claudia was in love immediately!

It was actually about 2 weeks later that she and her husband went “just to look” at it, she was hoping it was still there. It was, still on the front row, a 2013 sterling gray metallic, and the closest to the pepper gray Eleanor color Claudia could find. At first she was a little disappointed it was a V6, but soon learned it was no ordinary 6. It’s a 3.7, 305 horsepower, 6-speed beast with performance package. “It looks and performs like an V8 and sounds sweet! It even beats some stock V8s.” It was meant to be, and she found out a few hours later, it was hers. “I even saved the text I got from my husband stating ‘roses are red, violets are blue, there’s a beautiful mustang, waiting for you!’ I got personalized plates, that read LNR 12B”. Claudia named her Eleanor, and was going to get plates that said as much, but she thought, there’s only one real Eleanor, this is a wanna be. Claudia doesn’t have many modifications planned. She’s already got the Eleanor look she wanted, but may add Eleanor window scoops, an Eleanor hood and fog lights. “Other than that, I love her just the way she is. I am very excited to have her in her first show soon. I won bragging rights in a car battle on Lets Talk American Muscle cars. It was battle #67 so it was meant to be”.Claudia is also an admin on two Facebook pages, United We Stang and Mustang Humor and GMR #5155. “I have always loved Ford and nothing says American more than the Ford Mustang. United I Stang”.

Each week Team Mustang Girls features a different woman and her Mustang. Check out the past featured ladies from Mustang Girl Monday and submit your own Mustang story at TeamMustangGirls.com.

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