What kind of Mustang would you buy if someone handed you $75,000?

There's a new Mustang, and Ford's configurator is finally working for it, allowing every American the opportunity to spend lots of imaginary dollars building one. Or totally real dollars. We're in the business of spending very fake money around here every Thursday, so that's exactly what we're going to do.

Because we're most interested in exploring all the different Mustang possibilities for 2024 rather than zeroing in on a particular price point, our editors were effectively given an unlimited budget. If you somehow came to more than $75,000 for a 2024 Ford Mustang, which starts at $33,160 including the $1,595 destination and $645 acquisition fees, you need to lay off the bedazzled floor mats.

So here are the rules:

1. The car must be a Ford Mustang.

2. It must be a new 2024 model. We know you want a '71 Mach 1 or a '17 GT 350, but too bad.

3. You can spend as much of the $75,000 as you want, but the fake change goes into the Autoblog Charitable Fund for TBA

4. If you pick an automatic EcoBoost convertible, we make fun of you.

Alrighty, have at it team.

Mustang GT Fastback

Associate Editor Byron Hurd: My 2015 Mustang was a GT 6-speed with the (then-reasonable) performance package, Recaros and nothing else at all, finished in Guard — to this day one of the best subtle greens ever offered on an American car. I believe the sticker price was around $38,000 and I paid invoice mere months after the S550 went into production. This is today's closest equivalent, and the sticker shock alone makes me very grateful that I got into (and back out of) V8 Mustang ownership while it was still reasonably affordable. $49,000 would have gotten you a low-option GT350 not very long ago, but here we are.

Mustang GT Premium Convertible

Senior Editor, John Beltz Snyder: This would be driven as much by my wife as by me, so I’ll yield to her desire for a convertible despite my photophobic tendencies and the dorky-looking top, and convince myself it’s to better take in the song of the exhaust. She has the fewest insults for the black paint. Not even a question: 6MT. We both prefer to drive stick, and want our kids to learn when they start driving. That made the V8 an easy choice, as the EcoBoost is auto-only. I’m going with the 401A equipment group for the memory seats (again, lots of driver swaps happening), as well as the upgraded driver assistance suite that’ll make our cruises up north more comfortable. The Nite Pony package is for the black wheels. Space grey interior. Ventilated seats were a deciding factor in the Premium trim. Final price: $58,205, which we'd both rather spend on a Mach-E.