---
title: "Ford Mustang Snow Sculpture Is so Realistic It Got a Parking Ticket From State Trooper"
description: "A friend of the family knew the one thing that would make this detailed recreation more true-to-life: a fake parking ticket."
date: "2019-03-12"
modified: "2019-05-23"
authors:
  - name: "Stef Schrader"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/stef-schrader"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/26909/ford-mustang-snow-sculpture-is-so-realistic-it-got-a-parking-ticket-from-state-trooper"
categories:
  - "Ford News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Coupe"
  - "Ford"
  - "Mustang"
  - "parking tickets"
  - "snow"
  - "sports car"
---

# Ford Mustang Snow Sculpture Is so Realistic It Got a Parking Ticket From State Trooper

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Jason Blundell and his two teenage kids, Shelby and Spencer, spent a snowy Saturday in Chadron, Nebraska, recreating their family's 1967 Ford Mustang GTA, according to the [*Scottsbluff Star-Herald*](<https://www.starherald.com/news/local_news/nebraska-family-built-a-lifelike-ford-mustang-out-of-snow/article_1cfbebb0-8833-5b46-bbc2-85fc452e5b2b.html>). The Mustang stayed in the garage, of course, but its snow-replica was parked proudly out on the curb.

The "Snow Pony" took five hours to build and blew up from there, attracting admirers from across the world thanks to a family friend who added to the display. Nebraska State Patrol Sgt. Mick Downing, who attends the Blundells' church, filmed himself writing a fake tow notice for the [obvious snow-car](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/26454/snow-loving-hero-daily-drives-his-235000-lamborghini-huracan-in-the-dead-of-winter>) and posted it on the patrol's social media pages.

Downing, of course, never filed the paperwork to submit the notice, as it would have been legally parked if it were a real car.

Downing's video sure fooled a few on social media, though—especially since the Internet [loves](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/10028/watch-yet-another-boneheaded-ford-mustang-crash>) its Ford Mustang memes. The car itself was realistic enough that Blundell told the *Star-Herald* that one person thought they were burying a real car as they were making the sculpture.

To make the car, the family used a skid loader, shovels, ice scrapers, concrete wood floats, and a squirt bottle. Spencer even measured the real car as they were making it, just to make sure the proportions were correct.

This isn't the first [large snow sculpture](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/26692/woman-living-in-illegally-parked-snow-buried-car-rescued-after-being-hit-by-snowplow>) the Blundell family has made, as they've also done Easter Bunnies, a jack-o-lantern, and even a huge toilet. the *Star-Herald* notes.

"The start of that was to get my kids off their cellphones for a day,” Blundell told the *Star-Herald*. “Normally, we don’t do much with \[the sculptures\]. We just take a couple of pictures of them for ourselves. It just happened that our state trooper buddy came up to do a joke and it blew up.”

## Author
Stef Schrader is a former senior staff writer for The Drive. She started writing about cars in 2013 after meeting Jalopnik's editor-in-chief at a race track, where Stef can be found at every available opportunity.

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