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1966

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Great stuff! Thanks for posting this. Dad had a '54 Ford Station Wagon, a '59 Fairlane, a '66 Bonneville, and a '69 Torino. Around '67, he added a second car to the family fleet, a '62 VW Bug. So no Mustangs in our family, unfortunately.

Some interesting tidbits I spotted and never knew before:

* "minor design updates in August 1964 at the "formal" start of the 1965 production year contribute to tracking 1964½ production data separately from 1965 data." I always thought the '65 was the same as the 64½.

* "The Mustang I made its formal debut at the United States Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, New York, on October 7, 1962, where test driver and contemporary Formula One race driver Dan Gurney lapped the track in a demonstration using the second "race" prototype. His lap times were only slightly off the pace of the F1 race cars. That is hard to believe especially because F1 cars had just made the change to mid-engine layouts for better front/rear weight distribution and Lotus introduced the aluminum sheet monocoque chassis in 1962. But F1 rubber in those days was rather hard and engines were limited to 1.5 liter displacement (in 1961, in an attempt to curb speeds, F1 was downgraded to 1.5-litre, non-supercharged engines).

[FroggyTheGremlim]

'65 Convertible, Caspian Blue exterior, white interior, 289 engine, 4-barrel carb, rally pack. It had a white pinstripe instead of that fake side scoop.

$3,250 new.

Biggest mistake of my life was when I sold it.

[Calvin Locke]

My father got a '66 for commuting, replacing a VW Beetle.

Basic white, auto, with aftermarket air.

To spice up the attractiveness, the Mustang had a speedometer that read up to 140, rather than the prosaic 120 at the time.