50 years of the Mustang

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They sold something like 200,000 of them every year the car was on sale, so it probably wouldn't be that hard to find one. I've seen two for sale in my area alone in the past 4 years.

R1600Turbo
Then put a Coyota 5.0 in it.

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Be even better if he just put a monster turbo on the engine that was in there.
 
R1600Turbo
Then put a Coyota 5.0 in it.

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Hmmm, tempting.

Toronado
They sold something like 200,000 of them every year the car was on sale, so it probably wouldn't be that hard to find one. I've seen two for sale in my area alone in the past 4 years.


Be even better if he just put a monster turbo on the engine that was in there.
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Yeah, one small problem, I'm on the other side of the big pond. Although we have a lot of classics around here, I never seen one before, and that says a lot. A lot.


Edit: Biggest classic site : none. Dang.
 
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That's probably to do with the fact that it costs so much money to import a car that most people would find something "better" to import than a Mustang II.
 
Toronado
That's probably to do with the fact that it costs so much money to import a car that most people would find something "better" to import than a Mustang II.
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Ha! With the current prices in the Netherlands for a classic, it's cheaper to buy 2 tickets to the USA, buy a car, have a vacation and then ship the car back home.
 
The Mustang II is the worst of the mustangs. If you want to see something ridiculous check out the King Cobra or the Cobra II (below)

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its a pinto with a bodykit...
 
Toronado
It was only in production for 4 years, but over those four years they sold more of them then the entire rest of the Mustang's history or something silly like that.
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Uh...

They sold 420,000 in it's first year, 600,000+ in '66, 500,000 in '67, and 300,000 in '69.
 
They're certainly the cheapest 'Stangs to buy when they come on sale in the UK. Most guides reckon you can pick a half-decent (if there is such a thing as a half-decent Mk2) example for about £1500. Fox-bodies seem to start at around £3k which is horrendously tempting when I eventually get rid of the Beetle.

Fourth gens with V6s seem to start at around £3-4k over here, bit more for a V8, and first-gens are way above any of those, ratty ones seem to start around £10k these days. A bit depressing, since I do have a few magazines from a decade back with adverts for first-gen Mustangs at half that.
 
homeforsummer
Cars that are actually 50 years old this year:

BMW 1500, Jaguar Mk X, Triumph TR4, Citroen Ami, Renault 4, Jaguar E-Type, Mini Cooper, MG Midget

Other significant automotive birthdays:

Juan Manuel Fangio (100 years since his birth), Rolls Royce's Spirit of Ecstasy (100), Indy 500 and Monte Carlo Rally (100), Hudson Hornet (60), the car itself (125).

Cars that aren't celebrating anything significant at all this year:

Ford Mustang...
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A couple issues with your list:

1. The Mini Cooper turned 50 in 2009.
2. It's the 100th birthday of the Indy, but not the 100th race as they took time off for WWII
3. I have no idea who Juan Manuel Fangio is.
4. The rest of the cars you mentioned...meh
5. None of the cars you mentioned have been in continuous production. (The Mini doesn't count because the classic Mini Cooper and the BMW Mini Cooper aren't the same car.)
 
Non-issues, more like:

SuperShouden
A couple issues with your list:

1. The Mini Cooper turned 50 in 2009. Wrong. The Mini (non-Cooper) turned 50 in 2009. The Cooper is 50 this year
2. It's the 100th birthday of the Indy, but not the 100th race as they took time off for WWII ...so it's still 100 then... just like I said
3. I have no idea who Juan Manuel Fangio is. Seriously?
4. The rest of the cars you mentioned...meh ...and yet all are celebrating significant birthdays this year. The Mustang isn't.
5. None of the cars you mentioned have been in continuous production. (The Mini doesn't count because the classic Mini Cooper and the BMW Mini Cooper aren't the same car.) ...and all the generations of Mustang are the same car, right?... apart from being built by Ford the current Mustang has as little in common with the first-gen as the MINI had with the Mini. And if you want one that has been in continuous production: Mercedes-Benz Unimog - 60 years
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I hope they make something like this black mustang concept, not the orange one for 2015.
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