Posted on 05/06/2016 2:54:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
Visitors to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum can now take an especially innovative trip through automotive history without having to take more than a few steps.
Ford and the museum, which is on the grounds of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Campus in Alexandria, Virginia, have teamed up to create a side-by-side display that's half 1965 Ford Mustang and half 2015 Mustang. Although the Mustang debuted as a 1964 1/2 model, it was essentially unchanged for 1965, so it makes a nice bookend with the redesigned-for-2015 Mustang that's still on sale today.
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I sometimes see the new mustangs and they look nice.
I think the 64 is just a little bit prettier.
Wow, so this is what happens when you manufacture cars in Mexico.
OK,....
Now build a New Ford ROTUNDA.
I like the white side better
A video on the site touts the Mustang’s blown 4-cylinder.
I had a 4-speed manual Chrysler LeBaron convertible with that configuration. When the blower kicked in, that puppy performed like a V-8. I did a race-away from a traffic light with a Mustang V8 and, to my surprise, beat him.
At the next light, I told him I didn’t believe I had done that, and he grumbled, “I need a tune-up.”
Often when I see the older Mustang and compare it to today, I do not compare styling. I compare politics.
Look at the Mustang of the 60’s, Ford was about to go belly up. Along comes Lee Iacocca and fixes it with the Mustang among other leadership innovations.
So a couple decades later Chrysler has financial troubles. The same guy helps them out.
Now in recent times GM has troubles. To even think of GM fixing their own problems is absolute heresy.
Todays model of fixing things is the government bail out.
For that reason our last vehicle purchases have been Subaru and Ford. I used to be solid Chevy. To hell with them now!
I was at the Ford dealership today (my car being worked on). There was a Mustang Cobra on the floor. Sticker was $57,000...plus there was a $10,000 markup on top of that.
It was orange, so I didn’t buy it.
I was raised in a GM family and bought accordingly until they successfully lobbied Congress into restricting imports of Japanese cars. Then GM caved to the unions and gave their execs big bonuses, bragging about it on the evening news. That was in 1968 (?). Swore I’d never buy another GM product, and haven’t.
Yeah, the 1965 Mustang looks nice. I look at the modern one, and I just shrug.
Oh, and they immediately jacked up the prices, too.
That was a good show. My brother in law has a ‘65 in the barn. He hasn’t even removed the cover for 25 years.
My brother just sold his ‘86 GT. I should have bought it.
The 64 was good looking and fun to drive. Even though I got one used in 68, I loved it.
“Interestingly, the car has functioning doors on both sides, so museum-goers can climb aboard. The ‘65 isn’t actually a classic, but rather a licensed re-creation. The ‘15 is actually a right-hand-drive model like that sold in Australia or the United Kingdom, so visitors can sit behind both steering wheels.
This oddball creation isn’t to scale in terms of width to allow Ford to show off both the infotainment system on the modern Mustang and the radio on the classic”
Racist!
The red-side handles a lot better.
I have been shopping for a long time and don’t expect to buy for a couple more months, but it won’t be a Mustang.
About 2 weeks ago I finally got around to taking one of my dream cars for a test drive. I am sold, addicted and can think of little else than a 2016-17 Corvette Stingray coupe, Z51 lt3 and fully loaded. Red, Blue, White are my favorite colors. OMG what a car. 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds...can you imagine how fast I can get to the store when my wife says we need milk??! It can be put in ECO mode and get up to 30 MPG, but other than long trips, I doubt I’ll use that mode much...I liked sport mode, that’s when she came alive.
Just livin’ life my way.
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