Birth of the Mustang
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Before the fabled pony car first hit the streets a team of Ford designers and engineers was assembled to create a concept car to test the public's interest in a sporty new car. One of the treats in the video is seeing Phil Clark at work on the original Mustang logo. We also see Clark hard at work shaping the clay on the buck and his sketches adorn the walls of the studio. It's a tribute to an extremely gifted designer who died when he was only 32 but left behind a legacy of automotive design and a daughter, Holly, who's dedicated to making sure the world remembers her father's contribution to the Mustang.
This Ford PR film captures the inside story of the team's efforts that put the first Mustang on the road.
THIS IS WHY FORD IS THE BEST
This car makes me think 'Speedracer'...
I built a toy model of this back in 1963...before Mustang came out...
Do you know what company made the toy model? I'm looking for any information on models of this car.
Con tanto talento y alegría que invirtieron que pena que quizá nunca pensaron en que además de novedosos fuera de los que menos contaminaba pero el afán de competir y ganar resultó en lo que tenemos (.) ¿Con tantas normas para no contaminar qué tipo de gasolina tendrán que utilizar tantos vehículos clásicos que también son clásicos por su nivel de contaminación?Yo siempre he querido un clásico desde que tenia ocho años conocí el motor Ford
V8 3.2 del Ford Falcon de mi padre (.)
Thank you for letting us know about your father and for your support. best, Michael
Thanks for uploading...
Thanks for viewing. Sorry for the delayed response. Don't have any of the Mustang II Prototype. But have the unveiling of the Pinto. Now, how's that for excitement?
Wow Holly some of those ideas were certainly ahead of their time ! Ed
Great Mustang video
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
what the heck does this prototype have to do with the real mustang that rolled out from assembly lines, different engine,different body style and materials it's a totally different car.
Yeah its a different car. There is one thing they kind of kept. This car had a real scoop on the side. Mustang have that scoop shape in the body.
After Lee Iacocca witnessed crowd reaction to this prototype, he discovered that it appealed mainly to car nuts and not the market segment that Ford was looking for. Plus, Ford realized how much more profitable a 4 seater is to John Q. Public after changing the T-Bird to a unibody 4 seater in '58 and finally making a profit with it (Ford almost dropped the T-bird after 55-57 production!). FWIW, FoMoCo sectioned a first gen. Falcon to design the Mustang unibody. FWIW, I owned a '67 Mustang convertible, a '65 Mustang notchback, a '67 Falcon Sports Coupe and a '63 Falcon Tudor Sedan (sold in 2018 in Hemmings). (Sigh!) The '70's and 80's were the good old days, when one could buy a rebuildable car for less than $1,000 and expect it to last awhile, before planned obsolesence, gov't emissions, crash tests, mileage and corporate greed took over the auto industry!:(-John in Texas
WOW!! Ford had a awesome car there it's to bad they did not make them
LOVE THIS VIDEO!
Thank you for uploading. I really enjoyed watching! :)
Great video. also you got to love the guy test driving the mustang he is smoking a cigarette! lol!
I LOVE THIS THANK YOU!
don't have that. Have a young boy in a soap box racer as part of a Pontiac video. the juniors are really great. Thanks for linking.
i wonder how different the mustangs of today would be if they kept this design
You can see the GT40 in Lunn’s sketch.
Really RUclips hast to censor this
Great video! I've never seen this one. Do you have any videos of the Mustang II prototype?
Looks more like the styling of the GT40
Gas cap above the battery. A lawyer's dream.
Yes they did stop for a time.
Wow if they kept to the style of this concept the mustang would look nothing like it does today.
that belong on sea look like a boat you forgot the in build fishing rods .
Do you have anything that features Mustang juniors in your archives? if you do not know what they are check my videos
is like a boat .
i cant belive they almost put a v4 in it
Too bad it did not go into production.
looks like the mach 5.
Nice roll bar. If you don't care if your head and shoulders are crushed in the event of a rollover that is,,,,
That's not a rollbar, it's a headrest.
i think this could have infuenced the ford gt
i think they changed it because it looked like a shorter 63 vette....and someone wrote that they stopped making them for a time...no they didn't....they just got really ugly from 74-85.
First Mustang had a rear engine.
Mid engine.
I just read where someone posted that Ford never stopped making the Mustang like Chevy did the Camaro. Let's be honest and admit that Ford did stop making the Mustang from 74 to 78.
People wonder what happened to the original Mustang design? Lee Iacocca "value engineered" a cheap replacement by using a falcon frame and components and slap a T-Bird like body over it and sell it cheap. Capitalist success and basically crap with a fresh wrapper.
The Falcon outsold Corvair and Valiant by a huge margin! The only thing hurting Falcon sales were Mustang sales. Remember also that Falcon and Mustang were MUCH less $ cars than most of what GM offered and offered ALOT of value for the $-John in Texas
Thank goodness they didnt stick with the concept.........lets not forget they havent stopped making Mustangs like they did Camaros.