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CAR Pawnshop Mustang on clearance (UK)
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:54 am
by NickS
This may not be the end, or even the beginning of the end, but maybe the end of the begining. Or shit like that.
http://www.dawsons.co.uk/pawn-shop-must ... -apple-red
£499
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:29 pm
by George
Fuck, what colour is that? Crazy.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:43 pm
by NickS
Actually, that headstock says "Fastback". Wut?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:45 pm
by NickS
This is the actual Dawsons pic:
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:53 pm
by BearBoy
Seen a few places have got the Japanese ones discounted and then the new Mexican ones listed separately.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:24 pm
by Noirie.
NickS wrote:Actually, that headstock says "Fastback". Wut?
It would of been so much cooler it was actually called that. And had a Toronado bridge.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:56 pm
by BearBoy
Noirie. wrote: And had a Toronado bridge.
Didn't someone on here do that? Might have been OSG.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:59 pm
by Ankhanu
Yeah, it was posted in the thread I made about the possibility of adding a proper Mustang trem to one of these. Looks ace!
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:29 pm
by Cymbaline
Did they change something with the 2012 batch? The mint green pickguard doesnt look as minty, and the headstock looks paler (in some photos anyway). And what is a fastback? I'd rather have one of the 2011's. Also on MF, the new ones are $50 cheaper. 'SUP WIT DAT??
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:32 pm
by taylornutt
Cymbaline wrote:Did they change something with the 2012 batch? The mint green pickguard doesnt look as minty, and the headstock looks paler (in some photos anyway). And what is a fastback? I'd rather have one of the 2011's. Also on MF, the new ones are $50 cheaper. 'SUP WIT DAT??
They moved the truss rod to the headstock with a skunk stripe and added the sunburst color was added.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:35 pm
by DanHeron
Fastback. That might've been its original/prototype name or something.
I remember this pic floating around before they came out:
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:00 pm
by stewart
George wrote:Fuck, what colour is that? Crazy.
not sure, but this one looks similar.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:49 pm
by BearBoy
taylornutt wrote:They moved the truss rod to the headstock with a skunk stripe and added the sunburst color was added.
And they are made in Mexico now rather than Japan.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 6:49 pm
by NickS
Sounds like in 10 years someone will be saying how much better the MIJs were than the MIMs, and I should snap one up while it's on clearance. But I was thinkng of the MP Marauder...
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 7:04 pm
by dots
i like the widerange pickups, but for some reason they look ugly on those mustangs.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 8:06 pm
by paul_
dots wrote:i like the widerange pickups, but for some reason they look ugly on those mustangs.
These are regular sized buckers with a WRHB-style cover on them... I've read that they're the Enforcer buckers (previously used in certain Toronados/American Deluxe fat Strats and a bunch of other Fenders), probably because a real WRHB wouldn't fit neatly on a Mustang due to the switches and how far down the cutaway comes to the treble side of the neck pickup.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:04 pm
by Dave
I'd love one of these (with the right bridge on it). 42mm nut is a turn off. Stick jag stang neck on it though!
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:36 pm
by theshadowofseattle
hate that reshaped body
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:47 pm
by robroe
maybe they wanted to name it mustang fastback but ford bitched.
in all of fenders advertising it relates the mustang to the actual horse and never the car. calling the thing a fastback would relate it to a car too much?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:48 pm
by Fran
£499 Woot! I'll buy three or maybe four of them and get my Kurdtz on.
