Ford creates "side-by-side" 1965/2015 Mustang display (Photos in the link)

Fox News.com ^ | May 6, 2016 | Andrew Ganz

[Oztrich Boy]

Mustang got fat

[Fresh Wind]

Hot Dang Mustang-Alexander and the Greats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP9I-9pMmQs

Boss Hoss-The Sonics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_DIw00q01g

[ROCKLOBSTER]

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 going to buy it because it was orange, but it was priced about 300% more than it was worth, so I didn't.

[Cen-Tejas]

.......yes, two guys, one named Frankie and the other named Jim had 57’s. I swear they spent more on the cars fixing them up than they cost NEW a few years earlier!

Frankie had his bored out to 302 ci and two four barrels and a hot hot cam. It was candy apple red and sounded just awesome. When he drove by ever so slowly at the Drive In hangout the sound was just mesmerizing to an engine lover. Jim’s was black and other wise identical.

[sparklite2]

Candy apple red was all the rage when I was in high school.
Our most fun car was a 1953 Kaiser sedan the back of which opened up into kind of a station wagon. The car could do sixty mph in first gear (it was a three-speed) but, as I recall, it was only a six-cylinder. The trick was getting up speed in first gear sufficient for the overdrive to kick in.

[Cen-Tejas]

...........family had a Kaiser in the fifties. My mom, coming home from church one night in a light rain got sideways going down a small incline at a creek and drove her and my two sisters into the side of a small but very vertical hill!

That was the end of the Kaiser. Nobody hurt. I remember it was a good car that we all liked. It was black. LOL, nobody had ever even heard of a seat-belt in those days.

[Tallguy]

My grandfather and much of that generation of my family all worked at the Budd Company in Philadelphia doing — among other things — body stamping a for Ford. Around 1960 the Budd Company did several mock ups for Ford, Chysler & AMC (remember GM had Fisher Body). Ford took a pass back then, but their engineering execs evidently remembered. They did the same thing in-house a few years later.

The Budd Company was running a batch of body skins for the Thunderbird coups before the stamping dies were to be scrapped. They had the skins put on a Ford Falcon frame and then modified the lines with clay. They had a leather department and did the interior as well for the show-car. Dad said that they called it the “X-Bird”.

[Hot Tabasco]

Last weekend I was watching a car restoration program and they were restoring a 65 mustang with a vinyl roof. Those guys are virtual artists when it comes to that kind of stuff.

Anyway, they talked the owner of the car to not go with the vinyl and in the end it was a pearl white.

The guy restoring the car was talking about the Mustangs of that era and the poor quality, pointing out little things such as the wide gaps between the doors and the front quarter panels............But then again, poor quality was a trademark of those days in the auto industry.

[stig]

The guy restoring the car was talking about the Mustangs of that era and the poor quality, pointing out little things such as the wide gaps between the doors and the front quarter panels............But then again, poor quality was a trademark of those days in the auto industry. Remember this was back before air-conditioning was in almost every car. People would ride around with the windows open most of the time. A precision fit would have been nice but what's the point if people are going to let in the road noise anyway.

Also the Mustang was to be a sports car for the masses. A little more expensive than the average family car but not so far out that you couldn't stretch the budget to get one.

Back then people cared more about the engine under the hood than the precision of the body work. Hopefully you would be accelerating fast enough that no one would be able to detect a lack of precision in the quarter panel fit.