Mustang of the Month

Amanda Lally
2025 Mustang Dark Horse

My passion for cars started in high school when I took auto shop as an elective and met my high school sweetheart who had a convertible 5.0 Fox Body. I enjoyed working on the Mustang and any other car I could get my hands on. I eventually got a Grand Prix GTP that I modified and drag raced around the East Coast, placing 6th in the 2003 Pontiac Nationals as the only female driver. After selling the GTP I had a string of more practical cars (mostly Jetta’s) until 2025 when I decided it was time to get back to my true identity as a car girl.

I bought a manual Mustang GT for my birthday in February 2025, which was a ton of fun, but when I went to pick up my license plates a month later there was a Dark Horse in the showroom. I asked my sales associate if I could test drive it and ended up leaving with the Dark Horse instead of license plates (she had me at the Tremec). This Dark Horse’s chassis number is S0808 (S standing for the 2025 model year) – and 08/08 was the date I defended my PhD thesis and a few years later purchased my first home. She was surely meant for me! I named her Vesper after the Bond Girl, and the name also means evening star.

I wanted to meet car people and came across PCMC’s website with the National Mustang Day cruise listed as an upcoming event and the rest, as they say, is history. It was such a fun (and busy!) season meeting everyone, attending every single car show I could, exploring fun locations, attending the Dark Horse Track Attack, becoming a TikTok car creator, and even appearing in a commercial!

Of course I couldn’t leave her stock, so added both cosmetic and performance mods including Velgen wheels, carbon fiber hood, long tube headers, h-pipe and a custom dyno tune. I’m looking forward to the upcoming season with maybe ONE last mod ;) See you at the next car show or the track!