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April 2026 Finally Adelbert Engler decided the time is right to quit his Mustang Garage business and realize his longterm vision of the future. A Mustang Museum in Belgium featuring his 12.000 Mustang scale models and 21 collected Mustangs. Being still an entrepreneur he liaised early enough already with Hammink Performance. They will turn the Mustang Garage business into a Muscle Car Garage business broadening the portfolio. They will be in a different place. At the Mustang Garage location Adelbert turned the "house" into a full museum, no more wrenching here for customers, just for his own pleasure. We wish Adelbert a prosperous "retirement" period and a lot of health to go racing and enjoy performance at race tracks and at Hammink Performance. Following the announcement on the April 17th (what else?), he held another Mustang Fever event in Heusden-Zolder like in the past. Future will tell, if it continues and don't ask the neighbours in this case.  |
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March 2026 Goldfinger publication in german A nice surprise - talking to a lakeside walking friend, he mentioned his huge collection of period documents, amongst them the complete binders of the STERN magazine from issue no. 1. I knew his house was filled with documents, but I mentioned my interest in movie articles on that day. It took some time, but a few days later he walked his aisles of shelves and pulled the respective binder with the 1964 Stern issue 34 and onwards, where they had published a complete german translation of Iam Flemings related book. Several illustrations garnered the article. I will have to work on them a bit. But we will put a few on the Goldfinger media section of ponysite.de soon. (of course trying not to violate copyrights) |
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17.02.2026 Flash back to May 1962 - The Mustang I was penned out and the 2 seater design team thinking about a possible Coupe for the streets of the sportscar. Phil Clark was in the middle of that and draw on May 28th. a Coupe that was never published sofar, hold back for his daughters Holllys second book, which is long overdue. We risked a vision with the help of AI of how it would have appeared in downtown Detroit, if the team could have developed it further. Some insiders may know the later GT44 concept car, that was modeled on the way to a street GT40 by the Advanced Vehicle Design team within Ford. But this early 1962 sketch really was a vision of the Mustang I designer Phil Clark. AI itself touched it up with a few more modern items like the exhaust, but in the end these are the body lines that Phil put on paper. In my view it shows how timeless his Mustang vision was in 1962, it even would have been a good companion to the AC Cobra. We would suggest to Ford to pick this idea up again and create an affordable sportscar again, insted of the current models on steroids. Meanwhile we have a Pro designer working on it......   |
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 23.01.2026 Not many mystery Mustangs and Shelbys still around. Still they might be out there. I found the TASCA 505 owner in my mailbox, the 4th Alan Mann Mustang 208112, saw the Bullitt hero car #559 barn pics, long before anyone thought about its existence and many more. So why not think about Jim Morrisons Blue Lady, a 1967 Shelby GT500 #939. Last "proof" was an add from Ray Wolffs shop for the licenced car with VRD 389 togehter with an automatic 67 GT500 JEK 616 and a 65 GT350 with a VRT 348 licence number. Watch out for these, maybe the owners took photos or know more. It may look like this above today or proably even more damage and dust. Who knows. Just keep an eye on any dark hidden place. Or keep an open hood for things to come:-) The few who say it was totaled, might be wrong. Now evidence for whatever is around, just hear and say. I am on the positive side rather than the negative. This is how I was grown up. |
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 23.12.2025 7 years ago this 1967 Mustang GX custom car design appeared on the auction block through Heritage Auctions. A design by SKEET aka George Barris, which is fairly unknown as his nickname (to our best knowledge) At that time we had little information about it, but it one of those challenges that returns with a solution. Check out our Mustang GX special subpage. |
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 Although I don't like AI-generated historic pics, I did an exemption with this colorized one. Compared to an earlier trial years ago indeed AI has obviously researched more this time and simulated the purple paint, skin, much better. I recently found on ebay some slides from a private person take at the show and exchanged them with Bob Sifferd, who is working on a Milano professional scale model since years, contributing to a high level of custom car caravan scale models. So please revisit my Mustang Milano subpage for more information and links to the other 70 concept car prototypes, which includes the Mercury Montego Sportshauler and the Cougar El Gato build. |
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December 2025 Raynald Belanger from Canada is well-known in the Mustang scene since decades, first for his Mach1 website, the T/A decals service and now he expands his business. Read his last e-mail to us: |
"I offer restoration services for 1969-70 Mustang
build sheets for all models, including the Shelby & Boss" For those interested, pls. send Ray directly a mail |
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October 25th, 2025 Change of admins and moderators and ownership for the german classic Mustang Forum I founded the Mustang-Inside Forum back in 2007 as a helpful tool to german Mustangers focussing on a familiar and constructive tone of voice. There used to be more general and wide portfolio forums back then, but we focussed immediately on the 1964-1973 classic Mustangs, which was a good decision and still serves a larger audience. Ford Germany appreciated that introduction back then very much and over a period of 18 years we could create a larger community of elder and younger enthusiasts. Over 600.000 contributions for selected 35.000 topics are quite a good result for a regional forum in this period. |
 Due to other obligations and with my personal interest to reduce my online time for improved health conditions, we - technical forum guru Jan, who not only saved the forum from a service providers crash in 2012, but also financed it - and myself decided to hand it over to the main german Mustang club with 950 classic Mustang members, where I had been an editor in the past for a limited period of 25 years in parallel, but gave that up for same reasons several years ago to win more free time for driving. Jan has none of his 3 Mustang anymore and being alone with this job was not my interest. The job is up to the next generation now. We are sure that the FMCOG will carry along the flag of family oriented exchange of knowledge and wish them good luck with this helpful tool. We will both stay in the community. Good luck to the FMCOG. |
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August 25th, 2025 We've got some update from the owner of the recently unearthed Stallion from Mainway Ford, the 67 with a 289/2V. The sauterne gold car has been pulled out of its storage and underwent a thorough cleaning for proper documentation. It looks clean some body panels and the vynil clearly need attention and restoration, but the plan is to keep as many things original as possible. The rims are obviously not original, but look interesting in this combination.  |
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May 25th, 2025
Telling a story in one picture only - is my favourite topic during my professional life in advertising and marketing. The picture has to match the headline and invite still to dive into the story narrated in the following text. A tough job especially for a photographer who does not know yet, who is going to write the text. So I consider Bob Eckert one that documented a moment where actually you don't need a text around it. It triggers your brain only and in studying the details you have already got the narration in a few seconds. I contacted Bob for permission to use his Mustang pics here. Read on but don't expect the full story. You'll have to visit his site to see vintage Mustang II assembly shots and history by yourself in outstanding images. |
 Follow this link to a special feature on Bob Eckert Photography. |
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Rare documentation pieces have been my core interest for the past 33 years. Seems I had been fortunate to get access to a really rare piece of all Ford US parts unique to Export. This brochure was produced in 1987 on request by foreign Ford dealers, who had a big problem it getting original or replacement parts to their customers. I got this document from the Ford Regehr parts manager early in the 90ies. When browsing their binder, I saw also individual Export parts list for 1965, 1966 and 1967 at least, but since the intro of this document said, they listed all previous known parts, I dropped the other. I wish I had not. Actually - although it says 1967/... some 1966 items are listed, yet it was not complete, as Mr. Stuck told me from his decades of parts hunting. Anyway all low compression engines for trucks and passenger cars were listed including all related parts. Interesting that there were different parts for some countries like Brazil, Mexico or Sweden or the rest of Europe. Something really rare that no one else turned up a printed document so far. Thanks to the Stuck family. So I keep this asset in my own collection. If needed, get in touch to look up certain parts you may find obscure on your Mustang. |
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February 19th, 2025 Not much is known about this race team, but the Scuderia Lufthansa played an important role back then. Robert F. Huhn was fortunate to get a certain sponsorship from the famous airline in 1961. By 1965 they had built quite a good driver team around Robert as the manager and driver. Hans Werle, Hans-Dieter Dechent and Guenther Schwarz were the other drivers. The first race was with an Alfa Giulia, later a Porsche 356 followed, the first major success was achieved with an Abarth 1300. Later some Porsches 906, 910, 911, 913 and a 914/6 were used. But at some races in 1965/1966 they used a Mustang. One race was on June, 13th, 1965 (European Touring Car Championship/GP Touring cars) with this silver Mustang fastback, that is visible here. Jutta Fausel, a famous motorsport photographer catched the team in action at the Innsbruck airport race on Oct, 10th, 1966. and provided this rare shot to me some years ago. The Scuderia Lufthansa was wrapped up in 1972, but decades later a Lufthansa Classico team was built again, which is still around these days. Robert would be 93 today, but to my knowledge he died in 2014 already. Correct me if I am wrong here, please. |
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February 14th, 2025 It was already last year, but we kept a bit of silence over it in order not to disturb the sorting of all the new period design stuff from Phil Clark out of his brothers house Holly had sent me numerous pics while clearing the "memorial room" that his brother had kept as it was left behind in 1968 by Phil, when he died. It was a real surprise how many piles were just filling that room with old magazines, drawings, and anything that both brothers had exchanged while Phil worked at Ford. Thanks to Holly for letting me be a part of the sorting by mail and video transfer. Real treasures turned up, some went to the dumpster, but it was just too much to go through. Let's hope all relevant information was saved for any book in the future. Some of the surprises were drawings of the GBX. We knew he was heavily involved in the design in the UK. But it was good to see GBX designs that obviously others took later credit for. We'll have to check his diaries for specific comments. In the end it was anyway a complicated game between Ford design in UK, Germany and the US. More updates on our Phil Clark Capri site www.ponysite.de/phclark_capri.htm |
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January, 13th, 2025 Art Graham from Graham Motors, Albion, Nebraska contacted us in late 2024, if I would be interested to hear about their dealership activities from 1957 through the Performance era of the 60ies and 70ies. Of course I was. With the help of the successors of that dealership - the Schalk family - and Chris Teeling from the Cobra Jet Registry, they managed to get the photoscans and videos converted for me. Thanks to all. After some finetuning of the story, we can finally go public with it in the next weeks. We managed to get the MCA interested to run it in their club mag Times. It will appear in the May issue 2025. Thanks to Donald Farr. Very exciting information on 1968-1970 Cobra Jets including Cyclones, Fairlane Cobras, Galaxie Nebraska Centennial Specials, Sidewinders, Shelbys etc. Art and his mates were regular participants at the local dragstrips and enjoyed the Power of any Ford Performance car they could get hold of. Many of them got 427s after the 428 failed in drag runs like Arts own special paint poppy red 69 CJ. Stay tuned for an insight from Art, who is now at the age of 80. Thank you, Art. Pic on right: Never published pics of #1058 GT40 at an Nebraska dealership. It was one of seven GT40s that Ford ordered from FAV and which were sent early 1967 to the US. Just 3 dealers in Nebraska got it for promotion. The red one was used in the northeastern states around Milwaukee and obviously including Nebraska. Ford rep. Charlie Ward had arranged the promotion tour. |
 
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January, 2025 I just read in the Mustang Club of Sweden clubmagazine that Tord Jönsson had already died on Oct. 25th, 2024. I am so sorry to hear that. Tord was a good friend for more than 30 years, he was the founding member of the Classic Mustang Club of Sweden and a longtime editor, responsible to turn out 4 issues every year. We had been in touch ever since to exchange news and bits and I visited him in Sweden twice at least. RIP and condolences to his family. |
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November 28th, 2024 For decades, the Mustang Stallion of Edward Faultless in Canada was the only better known Mainway Ford Special. Actually it was 1 of 8. We are finally happy to hear of another one - one of the 289 powered Mustang Stallions. The current owner plans to document it properly first, before attempting to get it back on the road. It is appreciated that he found the way to ponysite.de for this coming out of another Mustang Special. We look forward to receiving more details and more photos in 2025. For the time being, we keep the privacy of the owner. |
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November 17th, 2024 Rex Turner, whom many Ponysite readers may know from his efforts about the 1972 Sprint Specials, bought in July this year his 3rd Sprint car. To be exact, it is #5 of 50 made. Check out the relaunched 1972 Sprint Special website from Jon Hawayek and his wife for updated information on all Sprint Specials. Check out this external link to the 1972 Sprint Registry |
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October 31st, 2024 Finally found the time to get out the story on the Borning III Mustang and what it's history is. We were waiting for Richard (owner) to move his business, but he has not yet found the time to get in touch with the PO, which was Dave Petersons brother Dean. They used the car as a SOLO racer for some time. After that it was sold to another owner, from which the norwegian mates bought it. Check out this site for future updates. |
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October 10th, 2024 Digging through ebay is the new game. These days many inherited stuff comes on the market obviously. I browsed more often these days and then I found a set of Mustang Milano slides from a 1970 show. Cool stuff. We know many have taken private photos and put them away. Now is the time to hunt again. Check out this site for future updates. |
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October 4th, 2024 News coming soon again. I had some PC and Software backlash in the past month when changing to a new one. SPA 24 6 hour race was like travelling back in time. Click on this youtube link for my travel back in time to 1966 |
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May 27th, 2024 The Pegasus returns to the Ponysite News screen After almost 10 years silence we've got news about the Mustang Pegasus that was under restoration by Ramon back then. Unfortunately he got sick soon after and - while he is still around - his brother now wants to finish the restoration for the 60th Anniversary of its 1965 Custom Car Caravan appearance. . Since this pic was taken the car has been moved already to another location We wish him fortune and connected him to Mark Gustavson (the Lynx Project) and the Veurink family again to exchange knowledge about the details. Actually the car was painted back then with real gold flakes, which cost a fortune back then in 1965. This could not be realised this time, but it leaves room for its future. We'll see. |
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April 23rd, 2024 Larry Shinoda said in an interview with Mustang Illustrated back then, that the Mach II C project was ended, because Henry Ford favoured the De Tomaso connection already. Interesting to see the two Mach II concept cars with the Mangusta staged at the Design Studio, probably around late August 1969.. There was certainly potential in the Mach IICs lines to create a sort of McLaren.  |
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January 29th, 2024 Just when you think, you've seen it all, Holly Clark pulls something from her drawers, that should really go in a 60th Anniversary book. This time another Mustang I drawing of her father, that has never seen the light since 1962... hidden somewhere in a pile. And it got unfortunately wet in history or spilled with tea or coffee, but is still in decent shape to tell about his role. What a treasure! Note that this one is marked up with Cardinal Sports, dated May 1st, 1962. |
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Interclassics at the MECC Maastricht/NL was worth to visit for the
120 Years of Ford Motorsport special show alone. 28 race cars on display
including the 1896 Quadicycle up to the latest GT40 liquid carbon no. 3 of
30, which was for sale for 1.499.000 Euro. 800 cars in total awaited 35.000 visitors and convinced them, that the Interclassics is a show for the average vintage car enthusiast with buying options on a moderate level. Of course there are also outstanding and unique gems like Aston Martin DB5s and what might have been a 250GT (or tribute?) and many others, but they make up a good show of course. Still tool vendors, leather stuff, scale models, artwork and paintings, needful things garner the very interesting mixture. Good start into 2024 for Ford - obviously with more sponsoring from Ford Europe than we know here in Germany. We are looking forward to more engaged 60th Anniversary shows in 2024 in all neighbouring countries as well. Watch out on www.fordperformance.com for my report. Should be on there, John promised:-)   |
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January 10th, 2024 The first event of the 60th Anniversary in Europe is a good one, a 120 years of Ford racing history at the MECC in Maastricht/NL. Ponysite will have an extensive report on it here. Stay tuned for more insight. |
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