Awesome. Beautiful. Toothsome. Then 1974 happens. Ugh. Puke. The suckage is strong in this one.
That was the end of the muscle car era and the beginning of gas shortages. It was also when the EPA killed the car industry, especially in CA, with all the smog crap that took a 350 Chevy V8 with 300 hp and turned it into a 200 hp dog due to the detuning and bad catalytic converters that plugged up.
It took 10 years to start coming out of that nightmare. Fuel injection was scary at first because it was new but then people started seeing the potential plus the better gas mileage. It was transformational. Now a carbed car or motorcycle seems ancient and low tech which of course is why some folks still like them. FI is more computery and not everyone embraces tech.
We should thank God for the Mustang II.
That car was truer to the vision of the 64 1/2 Mustang than was the ‘73 Torino style Mustang. Which was NOT a pony car.
If it were not for the Mustang II, there would be no mustangs today.