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Posted on 03/24/2014 1:50:02 PM PDT by jazusamo
But who gets to blow out the candles?
What’s believed to be a lightly-camouflaged 50th Anniversary Ford Mustang has been spotted out on a test drive just a few weeks before its expected debut at the 2014 New York International Auto Show.
The GT-spec ‘Stang features several retro styling cues to mark the occasion, including a unique grille with a horizontal chrome bar and corral around the Mustang logo, what appear to be rear quarter window louvers hidden under a black panel, and forked-spoke wheels reminiscent of the ones seen on
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I remember those 260 engines. My Uncle had a Ford, I think it was a Fairlane with the 260. The 289 was available pretty early tho I don’t know when exactly.
The Cubs Win 12-11!
Yep, that’d work for me too.
I love 'em. They're hot.
The perfect change to the classic look ... in my opinion.
The best baseball game I will ever see in my life, and the car I wish I still had was stolen. What a day of contrasts. Worse, I had to make a car theft report to Chicago PD after an “extra inning” game at Wrigley Field, if you know what I mean. ;-)
“You sure you parked your car here buddy? All these streets look the same...”
My mom bought her first car in ‘73. She bought a Maverick. It wasn’t until 20 years later that she said she had narrowed her choice between the Maverick and a Mustang Mach 1. I nearly threw a fit!
That’s a truly ugly car. Front end is atrocious, and that square blockish thing across the doors makes no sense at all.
My best friend in high school had a 51 Ford with a flat head V-8. It was only 100hp but I can remember he could burn rubber with it from a start. May have been geared low or maybe the engine was down rated.
Look cheap to me.
That ‘40 ford business coupe was his grandmas. The Ford flatty was tired and sitting in a radio flyer wagon. When I rode in it it had a later Merc flatty with Offenhauser heads and and Offenhauser 3 deuce intake. Otherwise all original. Ran pretty good when it didn’t vapor lock.
I once owned a ‘61 Bubble top and that’s why I’m still drawn to them. ‘61 offered both Impalas and Bel Airs but ‘62 only the Bel Air. I like the lighter look with smaller and less chrome features. The same goes for the Pontiacs. The Bonneville was beautiful, but I found the Catalina a bit sleeker looking. I tried to buy one last summer; all original with a 4 speed. I thought I was getting close, but in the last 1/2 hour the bids went off the chart.
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If they made modern replicas of the light sky blue 1967 Mustang three-speed V8 convertible my folks got brand-new from the factory when I was a kid and sold them as new, they'd sell out in two minutes and triple in value tomorrow.
The new car pictured with the article is so average looking that it'll be long forgotten in five years, forget five decades! The real Mustang (until they screwed it up in 1969-70) was electrifying the minute you saw it, and it is electrifying people 50 years later. Listen to the "oohs!" and "ahhs!" when a real '60s-era 'Stang rumbles by, with that unique Mustang sound.
Fun, fun cars.
And a bit of aviation trivia, the car wasn't named after the horse by its designers. It was named after the airplane. So it really carries two great American distinctions -- the American mustang horse, and the American plane that helped win WWII.
You can look it up! [^)
Conservatively rated at 290hp at 5800 rpm IIRC.Thats going back some years now.
The wheels make it look like the kid down the street put on some cheap aftermarket crap.
I talked my wife into buying a 2013 mustang and I told the saleman to bring a GT.She ended up buying a race red convertible 5.0 gt.425hp at the flywheel.She drives it the way you are supposed to.The kids will always remember this.
*sigh*
I used to drive 'em as a kid, V8s, three on the floor. Not the fastback, but convertibles -- and that's a good thing. God knows what I'd have done in one of those.
Now you're making me want to break out "Bullitt." You know, the guy who wrote the score for it basically told the director, "What are you talking about, music for the chase scene? The sound of the engines is all you need." I can watch that chase a couple times in a row and just drink in the sound of the engines.
... Looking at that photo and heaving another deep *sigh* dreaming of mountain backroads, gas, fair weather, and days past.
Those were the days when men were men, cars were cars, and women were tomatoes!
Yep they’d sell out in a very short time whether it be a ‘65 or ‘67 I believe.
I’ve read before that it was originally named for the P-51 but was sidetracked to the horse.
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