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May 25th, 2013 Wallace Wyss is working on a new book with barn finds over 100.000 dollar value. We are just doing an interview with him, yet have a few more questions pending for a review. Here are just a few first remarks of him. |
Editor: Isn’t Jerry Heasley already working in this area with two books already published in his RARE FINDS series? WYSS: Yes he is and I think he has homed in on an exciting concept—finding pictures of the cars when they are rusted and forlorn and telling how they were found. Ed: So what makes your book really different? WYSS: I am drawing a line or making a threshold, as it were, of $100,000 value today so in order for any car to be featured in my book it would have to be worth that. Of course there are some in my book worth , say $40 million , so it averages out that I am writing about $100 million worth of cars in 50 chapters. Ed: Why did you draw that line? WYSS I knew a guy in the Mustang business (co--founded California Mustang Accessories) who once said “Why look down on the ground for dimes when there’s dollars in the trees?” so he meant why think small, so I am encouraging car fans to search not only for the Mustang notchback down the street but some real treasure, a neglected car that could be worth from $100,000 up when restored. |
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May 25th, 2013
Our friend Trevor Legate did it again - another Cobra Book with co-author Kay Hafner with the title "The story of an Icon" feauring the history, but also 40 pages of an AC and Shelby Cobra meeting from 2012, where almost 40 genuine Cobras gathered in a barn on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary (we reported on that earlier further down this page). The book is now available from Collectorscarworld.com Link |
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May 20th, 2013 Rare Find - One of two 1971 460cui Mach1 This car was indeed believed to be a Shelby Europa for more than 2 decades. Upon further research with the owners and Kevin Marti on those cars, we noted there was something wrong with it. Note the front fender emblem on the hockey stripe that caused the historic error aside from narrations over the years. Yet the owner was not aware that his car was listed as a Shelby Europa and it turned out to be an even more interesting car after we finally succeeded to contact the current owner Anders A. in Sweden. The full story will be in our club magazine first and added here later. Stay tuned. |
![]() This car was ordered by an australian Ford engineer, who was working in Detroit back then in 1971. He and a mate had Ford deliver two 71 Mach1 to the Stark Hickey Ford dealer, who installed 460cui engines. One was then imported to Australia, the other guy was shocked by the high import taxes and decided to step back. This second car made it then to Sweden to another Ford employee. It ended up in Anders hands. |
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May 20th, 2013 Finally we found the trace of the Shelby G.T.250 again last year and could trace it down. Unfortunately we have to report it as being lost. Philippe Bervoet, the partner of Claude Dubois sold it after his ownership to Olcar Sales in Le Hulpe. M. Olcar sold it to one of his longtime norwegian customers. In the mid 80ies, the G.T.250 was parted out and scrapped, as he told us. At some time during Bervoets ownership the GT40 289 engine must have been taken out as both M. Olcar and the norwegian owner told us, it had a 302 installed. We have updated our related webpage. |
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May 20th, 2013 Guenter Ohler was the Mustang man back then and he is still today around with vintage Mustang racers. Aside from being an excellent mechanic, he also drove his own Shelby from 1968-1971. Here we see him probably at the Hockenheimring. I stumbled over this picture at our last weekends meeting. Guenter was there. Here is a link to his race results. We'd like to know the VIN of this Shelby. |
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May 19th, 2013
A new record in our event history. At this years First Mustang Club of Germany 1964-1973 e.V. 32nd International Meeting we had more than 420 Mustangs on 18th/19th. of May. We welcomed Mustanger from the UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, the United States and many more nations. A Ford of Europe film team was there to do interviews and do a movie on this event. The Technik Museum Sinsheim offers indeed with their spectacular airplane environment a very nice scenario for our Mustangs - old and newer ones. |
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Ever seen a real 1971 Shelby de Mexico GT-351? If not, check out ebay now for an opportunity to buy one or download the photos. AFO1MR27185 is on sale with the item no. 221227922871. Check it out |
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May 8th.2013
When Alan Faulkner-Stevens restores a Shelby, it might double its sales value, because it is done perfectly at a top concours level. This is the case with 6S1393 that saw a number of paint jobs during various resto attempts in its life changing from the original black/gold to red/gold and then white/blue, red/gold again and now back into its original black/gold livery. We plaid a bit with the number. Considering the car being sold at 3754 Dollar in 1966 and a rental fee of 17 Dollar a day and 17cents for the mile, the car could catch today at its current value1040 dollar a day and 1040 cents the mile. Not bad. Calculating what it would earn for Hertz with 9 month operation (it was actually used 11 month) and a 10.000 miles borderline (it had 10.023miles, when being returned), the car would earn almost 380.000 Dollar at that rate today...well, if someone would pay that rental price. Now what is the current value? |
![]() To relate those number on the left .... by inflation a Shelby Hertz ex-factory would cost today 26900 Dollar and the rental fee per day. Would be 120 Dollar with 1,20 a mile. |
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Dean Jeffries passed away
on May 5th. Dean was a big name in the Pinstriping scene, but also in the custom car era. Working with George Barris he created numerous outstanding cars by himself, such as the Ford Cougar concept for the Thunderbird in 1962. He got better known in Ford/Shelby circles by painting the first Cobra CSX2000 numerous times to simulate an already started production for the public ordered by Carroll Shelby. Also for owning one of the few GT40 roadster GT #109. We offered author Wallace Wyss the opportunity to recall his memories about Dean Jeffries here |
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April 20th, 2013 Larry Ballard owns a rare and valuable Shelby. 5S271 is aleady a piece of racing history. John Mangold turned it into a B/P racer in the late 60ies and since then it was raced for all of its lifetime. Larry is a co-founder of the Autobahn Country Club near Chicago. Now you see the connection to us in Germany. We will feature his outstanding car in our next club mag. Actually it is one of only about 35 early 1965 Shelbys that were raced early on by independent drivers. Thanks to John this car has certainly already reached a value of above 200.000 dollar. But this is not what counts for John. "They were made to be driven and I plan to drive it for a long time". It is a lot of fun. Well said. |
Since Ed Ludtke owned it for a period, we will feature his memories as well on the car. We brought Larry and Ed together and it turned out that Ed still has the Mangold trophies...maybe to share with Larry. Sounds like a good deal made. |
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April 20th, 2013
The COBRA 50th Anniversary was last year, yes we know, but little had been published about an extraordinary german event that took place near my hometown. 29 real Shelby Cobras gathered in a nice exclusive private barn and celebrated their own Cobra fest. I missed it frankly...but heard from it once and then, until one owner recently contacted me. In that email conversation I learned that Trevor Legate is publishing soon in mid 2013 a new Cobra book including 40 pages about this specific events and the rare Cobras that were on display there. Sometimes it is just coincidence that you get to hear something that is in the pipeline. Now you know... |
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April 19th, 2013 There is plenty of artwork out there about Mustangs, but this one catched my eyes. Roger Lusty does water color artwork of your individual Ponycar in 13 x 21" for 400$. He just needs about 10 weeks, but it will be outstanding like this one. Visit his website at www.rogers-auto-art.ca |
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April 17th, 2013 Not many exciting news on this day, as many enthusiasts expected. Just the 49th Anniversary of the Mustang release date in the US. The 1 millionth Mustang built at Flat Rock, 8,5 millions built so far, numbers that can be told with pride from Ford and should be enough for the moment, no doubt. The more interesting things for Mustang historians happen in the background right now. We will tell you in the next days. Expect some 50th marketing actions with clubs
from Ford, but we are going to tell you more tidbids about famous Mustangs of
the past instead ..like the Group1 Shelby notchbacks. |
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April 3rd, 2013
A few new facts for Mustang historians Every Mustanger knows the April 17th is a special date in its history. The debut of the car in New York. But it was already launched on the April 12th. In Switzerland and in Bern to be exact. John Hirsch - Fords Switzerland general manager - and the US ambassador displayed it in the Kursaal in Bern and let hundreds of balloons loose which had covered the car before the announcement. So think again next time...the Mustang was launched in Europe already on April 12th, 1964. Note the Pony emblem embroidered on the curtain behind. A strange Pony emblem that looks like a mix between the 1962/1963 Mustang I promo logo and the final one. |
![]() Photo courtesy Zwischengas/Bern AR 12.04.1964 |
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March 26th, 2013
Ford invited a selection of european Mustang club representatives to the 50years Mustang Anniversary launch party in New York. Ford plans ahead in their GO FURTHER marketing plan to involve a few of the european Mustang clubs already starting with the New York Auto Show 2013, which just opened today. Steven McCarley (MCA) (and Fords vice president Jim Farley) welcomed Carl Attali (MCdF), Ralf Wurm (FMCoG), Salvatore Mirabella (MCoI), Mark Hayden (MCoGB) to discuss and mindmap around common european events for the 50th Anniversary in 2014. The new dialogue started with the launch of the new 50th merchandise website (of course) to the club officials, but also to strengthen relationships. They all will have access to the Mustang collection tonight and enjoy a visit to the NYAS. The 1200HP Shelby was on site and many more. Visit the new Ford 50th Mustang Anniversary show here at www.shopmustangfifty.com and see this video from Ford online |
![]() Unfortunately Parnelli Jones did not appear as initially announced ..and no explanation was given, why he could not join. More cooperations between the clubs and Ford were discussed towards 2014 and european club events for the 50th Anniversary. The interest was bilateral to improved in communications and support, guess why. The NY show itself disappointed a bit european visitors concerning its size. The Ford and MCA representatives learned that europ. car fairs are much bigger and draw many more car nuts. |
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March 25th, 2013 Some may cringe at this, but well...yes... Americans and French have something in common. The famous tricolor colors blue, white, red in their flags. Now look at the Mustangs emblem and find the same colors red, white and blue again....:) The book is available through major bookshops since this month. |
But it took Enguerrand Lecesne
(try your spell-checker on that one) to come up with a thoroughly
researched new Mustang book. Some may wish to learn the french language
now to understand what went on in France. The french racing history is plastered with Mustangs of all sort and you will be surprised how many actually were raced there. Followers of the autodiva.fr site have gained quite some insight into Mustang history already through our friend J.F.H. aka Mustang 66, but if you consider to make your racing Mustang book collection complete, don't wait too long to get it.
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March 26th, 2013
Would you picture that an owner of a Shelby GT350H writes horror stories. Never? Well, typically horror stories begin with calm scenarios like this picture shows, a suburb of a city, where everything seems to be in order, kids are playing, husbands polishing their cars and ladies ordering the next car parts for X-mas..... o.k. something is already wrong here, sorrry, but what? Richard Elsliger is not in his car in this picture, because he just left it sit outside to get inspired for his next horror story.
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![]() One of his latest books is ROAD CLOSED. A true horror story around Muscle cars and all the stuff that you expect in a horror story. Though I link instantly rather crime stories to Mustangs (like Bullitt, Diamonds are forever, you name it) - horror stories may have their avid fans out there. Just browse the web for Richards bloody stuff mixed with Mustangs and the other ones pictures here in his book cover. And good luck to Richard in selling his books. Give us a theme for another Mustang crime story and we follow it. |
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March 22nd, 2013 - updated March 28th
Have a closer look at the New York Autoshow with big news coming on. o.k. No big news indeed! The Mustang Collection (cloths, merchandise stuff) was on display for the european clubs, but no cars except for the Shelby 1200HP version. And yes, we were wrong on some new Racing Heritage Special Editions created by the known names in the peripherals of Ford. But we don't give up hope for these to be followed up. - A 2014 Saleen PJ Edition makes pretty much
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![]() Just guesses based on recent informations and rumours we got, but the days for the coming out are counted for new racebred Mustangs... An Ecoboost new Mustang 2015 driving simulator makes pretty much sense, as the current Mustang owners need to be convinced anyway and the best argument is to let them drive the ST and new Fiesta R5 variety plus the Focus ST and then a Mustang chassis with an Ecoboost. There is little you miss after that. |
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The series of 50th Anniversary car show eyecatchers Another We know we are early, but again the first ones! We told you already the story of Ray McCaffeys 1965 T-5 K-code that will appear at the 50th Anniversary. Now here is another earlybird show car: John Kamph owns this very nice and outstanding example of the german export version of a 1970 Mustang. Having been an Ford engineer for 35 years and having been at Ford Cologne for some time, he likes to drive today this american muscle car with a a german touch. Not many can say, there car has seen the lights on the Autobahn. 44 years later it is still around and in the US.
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"I always like to restore a car that is a little different than most. I am planning on driving my T 5 to Dearborn Michigan in April 2014 for the 50th anniversary of the Mustang." |
![]() One of the planned logo artworks for the 50th. Make sure you become a sponsor now. |
The Ponydrive plans ahead for the 50th.Anniversary,
but don't forget the 2013 action.
Jacksonville/FL will be the starting point on 1st of April 2014, while Orlando maybe an alternative due to available Mustang rental cars. If you plan ahead to enhance your 50th. Anniversary travel with a group roadmovie adventure, then this is the time to let David S. Turnbull know about your plans. He has made already a number of arrangements. The schedule will be announced soon. If you can't wait you can still join his 2013 adventure from July 4th to July 19th. from Boston north into Canada.
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An American Project: Equus Bass 770 ready to rumble! Visit their site on Facebook for continous updates on production and appearances. First cars are ready to go. ![]() We've followed it and we follow it. Congratulations to the team. |
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Evidence found that Phil Clark
- the Mustang logo designer and Mustang I design team member - also
worked again with his friend Larry Shinoda on the XP- Corvette designs in
1966. It takes patience to find further evidence, but we have not given up to dig in the design world of the Mustang and Corvette. Finally we found evidence for Phils creations in the GM archives of 1966. A picture taken by Mr. Madler (GM photographer) on the September 12th, 1966 and filed under 72/70 shows Clark signature on this Corvette design. We hope to find more evidence of Phil Clarks design proofs and we have found a few new former colleagues that finally are able to share their belongings and memories. Read the story and update on his GM side-career. Picture courtesy GM archives 9-12-66. |
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What makes Ponysite such a family oriented website? It is about our contributors. Here are John and his wife Diane taking this picture. We build up a friendship through the Mustang topic years ago and visited them on the South Island of NZ. John now holds a First Mustang Club of Germany calendar 2013 in his hands enjoying the warm weather outside with his 1966 Sprint Mustang his VW bug while we suffer from snow and ice over here. John enjoys of course also the nice pics of our club members Mustangs in the calendar that made it around the world to him and his Mustang mates. No less than 4 are in his immediate neighbourhood. Staying in touch - on a global scale.. and a friendly family atmosphere while talking about cars, but also about things that life throws in your way ...listening and sharing are two attributes that are common to our network |
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Updated Feb. 8th(26th 2013 The Dearborn Steel Tubing 2-seater designed by Vince Gardner is ready for the show. It will have its coming out after almost 50 years at the Amelia Island Concours show early March 2013. Restored by Capaldi Enterprises for owner Bill Snyder. It is a true piece of Mustang History. Make sure you are there. Thanks to Michael Capozzi and Bill Snyder for the latest pictures Stay tuned for more in the near future. Update: Hemmings Daily beat us to it, as we were not allowed to publish before others did. Anyhow we update this "old" news. When Vince Gardner redesigned this preseries Mustang as a 2 seater, he did not know yet that it would have a big show time and a dark longer period. It was first rented by Ford for the Custom Car Caravan and appeared at several shows as we had pointed out in our FCCC special here on this site. It disappeared soon after. As we have it from Bill Snyder it was put behind a brick wall at some time, maybe to prevent it from being crashed, maybe for some other reason. Anyway it spent a longer time in Bill Snyders ownership after 1969 unrestored after he bought it from an insurance company, he stated.
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![]() ![]() ![]() Vince Gardner designing the Mustang III 2-seater in December 1963 already. A preseries Mustang chassis obtained via Andy Hotton for DST "The Tube". The VIN we got early on is not confirmed though as one of the Passino managed cars. We'll put our torch on that VIN issue soon. |
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More news coming on. |
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Jean Claude Killy was
a famous skier by 1966, but did you know he was a famous race driver as well.
He raced with Bernard Cahier Porsche 911s, but his dream was always a 1967
GT500. In March 1967 he visited Carroll Shelby and drove a Shelby G.T.350 to
its limit (blowing at least one tire) at Riverside. Carroll missed the chance to give him a Shelby for Le Mans that year, but had one shipped to Claude Dubois (5R539). If you wonder about the picture inscription, yes I am just testing a new blog style at www.mustanginside.wordpress.com Check it out. |
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Ever wondered how they were built? The 1969 Shelbys assembly process. We've come across a series of interesting pictures from the Rohm and Haas and A.O.Smith fiberglass production of the 1969 Shelby hood and parts fitment. Thrilling pics. |
I was corrected, these pics were published already 4 years ago by a lady, who attended a Mustang meeting where a former A.O.Smith employee showed them in a slide show. Check for the link in the search field of www.saacforum.com |
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Ford Gyron scale model catches 40.000 Euro at
an auction. The original Gyron was a milestone in Fords history. Designed by Alex Tremulis, McKinley Thompson, Syd Mead, Bill Dayton, John Najjar, and Elwood Engel it debuted in 1961 at the New York International Auto Show and featured two wheels mounted along the car's centerline, using a gyroscope for stability. But there were other breaking news around this car. It was one of the first predicting usage of cell phones and navigation systems in cars. One of Fords better ideas...in 1961.
Unfortunately the 1:1 size concept car burnt down in the Rotunda fire 1962.
Yet 2 scale models survived, one disappeared in the ownership of the Tremulis
family, but the other came up this year from Ford Designer Joe Oros
treasures. |
![]() 1961 Ford Gyron concept car original scale model (1 of 2) catches 40.000 Dollar at yesterdays auction. (19.Dec. 2012) |
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The X-Code 1968 Mustang B-Sprint Hardtop...
is already a rare breed of 390/2V equipped Mustangs. In 1968 they built exactly 57 Hardtops with that B-Sprint option acc. to the Marti report.
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Read more about his unique Mustang We would like to hear of other rare X-codes out there. They always appear to be something special. Over the decades I have been in touch or notified of approx. 5 X-codes. The X-code registry run by Marc Schultz had at least 45 to 50 registered when I last heard of it. |
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Christian from the pays basque owns this
outstanding 1967 Shelby GT500, which we will feature
in our next club mag. He bought it from the Netherlands ![]() Stay tuned for more in the near future. |
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The 1967 "SHE" and "HE" Country Mustang I had been notified of it by my friends Craig and Denise MacGregor already in June, but missed due to my health issues to put it up in time. The car has found already publication meanwhile, yet we have to follow up a lot from 2012 and there is always time to review a few rarities.
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"I wanted to let you know first about a Mustang
Denise has purchased.Kevin Marti wrote us after we lodged a report through him.
It seems Denise has accidently bought a 67 convertible manual, A/C, P/S "SHE"
Country Special from Goodro Ford in Denver. Apparenty the High
Country Special and Ski Country Special created by Ford were a inspiring series
for these. When Bill Goodro passed in 1965, Ann - his wife - took over and
created the SHE Country Special. It’s a pretty red special order colour
apparently. Amazing, and now we have all these Shelby bits we cant use!!
on this project. Currently I don’t even know what one looks like." Well by now they both know how one looks like thanks to the Goodro Family and mustangattitude.com plus Kevin Martis efforts. He published an article in the Mustang Magazine in 2010 already. Out of 28 Hardtops and 9 convertibles, 3 have been found so far. So Denise SHE Country Special is 1 of 3 convertibles. We are going to feature this rare Special on a separate side. |
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A 1969 Mach 1 followed by a Baldwin Motion Camaro in the
2012 Teheran- Dizin Rally
Our reporter Ramin sent us this and more nice shots of the recent Tehran-Dizin rally. The classic car scene in Teheran is very active and the cars always catch attention around there and on their way out. Muscle car enthusiasts are everywhere on this world. Read more |
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First Mustang Club of Germany 1964-1973 e.V. wins the
FORD FANAWARD 2012 in the club section! In a series of second and third places over the past years the FMCoG finally made it to the top with the fresh design by our clubmate Felix Henrichs. The Gold version is now ours. Taking care of the Classic Mustangs in Europe with about 440 members the club has remarkable grown over the past decades, but also kept its family and friendships atmosphere. Visit our website at www.mustangclub.de |
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Rare sighting A 1972 T-5 export Mustang Q-Code Mach1 in racing trim Not often do we see today outstanding cars like this one. But Peter from Munich presented us this car in our latest club mag. Originally and officially exported to Germany, it featured the T-5 package on the invoice and has amongst other proofs a 220km/h speedo. Though originally in gold livery, the car has something with its orange color and the door numbers. It has a special DSO 91-6471 as well. Whoever knows more about the history of this car, pls. contact us. Only 162 T-5 Fastback Mach1s were built acc. to the Marti report of this car. |
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Camillo Pardo (ex Ford GT designer), Laurent Nivalle and
David Hilton display their artwork in Cologne Galerie am Bruesseler Platz 14, from Oct. 27th- Nov. 27, 2012 |
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Car and Driver shows its already
earlier online published vision of the
2015 Mustang in its Nov. 2012 print issue.
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Oct. 13th, 2012 Mid November 2013 Ford and HM will announce a new Mustang special Rally style. Paying tribute to the raceteams of Holmann-Moody/USA and Alan Mann Racing/Surrey/UK the new look features the rally history of the Mustang.. Ford has a lot of success with rallys again today like the WRC and they have become more and more popular with Ken Blocks efforts in the Ghymkhana drivestyle. ![]() Andrew Cowan and Peter Procter won the Tour de France 1964 in their class with the Alan Mann prepared DPK7B licensed Mustang. Second was the DPK6B with Peter Harper and Pollard. Bo Ljungfeldt did not finish nor did Henry Greder in the Ford of France Mustang. More from the press conference and the official press release here on www.ponysite.de/hm50thTDF.htm |
1964 saw the first big rallye racing victories of the Mustang and one or
several 2014 special
model(s) is/are the logic output. The Holmann Moody conversion will feature a number of iconic elements like stripe kits and the red color of the Alan Mann Mustangs in the Tour de France after their first outings at the Sofia-Liege-Rallye and then TDF. While he did not use gold on the Mustang, the red-gold had become famous for his racing team colors. As an homage to Allan Mann, who died this year, there is certainly some tolerance amongst Ford fans to combine them for a tribute car. The Alan Mann Estate has given its permission to use his name.
Other features will be rally style accessories. More in the new feature. Watch out for Fords announcement and the picture courtesy Holman-Moody. Read more on www.hm50th.com site. Read more in our Alan Mann section about his success with the Mustang and GT40 Also an interview with Lee Holman which I did 4 years ago. We hope to have another exclusive insight soon on the making of the new Rally Mustang. |
Oct. 10th, 2012
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