Mustang turns 50 this week

Dave W · April 17, 2014, 01:51:16 PM

I've seen a few stories about it. This video aired on NBC Nightly News a couple of days ago and includes the first Mustang sold in the US, restored and still being driven by the original owner and her husband.

http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/mustang-celebrates-50-years-muscle-cars-n80416

gweimer · April 17, 2014, 04:13:45 PM

Long live the Falcon II

uwe · April 17, 2014, 05:14:31 PM

And the Grabber Blue!

uwe · April 17, 2014, 05:26:43 PM

I always liked Mustangs, even the pumped up ones from the nineties. Not quite as elegant as a Corvette (but not as hilarious porn as a Dodge Viper), but with - in Germany at least -, less of a pimp car millstone round its neck (Corvettes have a pimp car image in Germany, but one of my tax partners drives one too). Mustang is more a working man's muscle car. When I still lived in Frankfurt, our neighbor (who headed famous German hardcore hard rockers/punx Böhse Onkelz) had one which i would have dated late sixties/early seventies. It had a nice engine roar and that engine bubbled nicely when he took the foot of the gas.

nofi · April 18, 2014, 06:52:55 AM

corvettes are also known as redneck porches. i tend to agree.

gearHed289 · April 18, 2014, 09:38:31 AM

The Mustang was never intended to be in league with Vettes and Vipers. It was described by Lee Iaccoca as "a secretaries car". It was a fun little 4 seater that just about anyone could afford, but it could also be optioned out to be a badass at the track. I always get a kick out of people who rip on the Mustang II, when in fact, that car had more of the spirit of the originals than the Torino based 71-73 behemoths that directly preceded it. I've told this story before, but... my dad was a mechanic. Worked at Ford dealerships. It wasn't uncommon for him to come home for the night in a customer's car for a final test drive. One day when I was about 7 or 8, it was a Acapulco blue, '68 GT convertible with a big block 390. Only this time, he handed me a screwdriver and a pair of license plates.

It was my mom's birthday present! Good times. Love those cars.

Sadly, this is the only photo I have.

And my current ride (with a friend's bass).

nofi · April 19, 2014, 09:05:27 AM

nice car! if i didn't need a truck that would be what i bought.

Dave W · April 19, 2014, 05:08:33 PM

Beautiful pair. Too bad the bass isn't yours too.

Captcolour · April 19, 2014, 08:08:08 PM

I like Mustangs and Camaro's of that period. But a tad more passionate about the Mopars:

rahock · April 20, 2014, 05:46:28 AM

Got a soft spot in my heart for the old Mopars myself

Rick

gweimer · April 20, 2014, 05:56:30 AM

I have to say that while I grew up around GM cars, one of my favorite cars (among 50+ in a lifetime) was my '67 Belvedere. Mine wasn't the GTX version, though.

Pilgrim · April 20, 2014, 11:01:00 AM

My buddy had a '69 Road Runner...my pick was a 1966 GTO...Barrier Blue like this one except red pinstripes on the fenders. None but the stoutest Mustangs could pick on a goat.