The Last Mustang on Earth

Spandex rules MTV. Acid-washed jeans rule the mall. Muscle cars rule the Strip. On the last Saturday night of the summer of 1991, the Eighties are still in full swing for a trio of friends on the cusp of adulthood. Our narrator, his little brother and his best friend cruise the Strip in a '67 Mustang Fastback, racing against other cars, overzealous cops and looming adulthood. It's their last weekend together, even if they don't know it yet. Before the next summer gets here, they will have traded their muscle cars for compacts, Nirvana will have killed hair metal, and college, full-time jobs and the real world will have taken them in different directions in life. But for one last, hot, glorious Saturday night, they rule. Our hero's self-appointed mission: to squeeze every last drop of youth out of that night and convince his uptight girlfriend (or better yet, her sister) to get out of her clothes and into his backseat before his curfew. Throughout it all, our narrator takes us on a constant series of vivid daydreams about explosive high-speed pursuits, superpowers, Nazis, cheerleaders, stage magic and zombies. Before they part ways, the friends have misadventures with bottle rockets, strippers, fast food drive-thrus and vengeful ex-girlfriends. And by the end of the evening, one of them accidentally grows up. The Last Mustang on Earth is about friends, cars, music, girls, family, speed, youth, freedom, the Bible, the South and sex. It's a night in the life, as well as a night in the mind, of a 19-year old. And like the mind of a 19-year old, it is usually perverted, oftentimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking.