Instead of turning heads and joining the muscle-car craze, he bought a practical Volvo. Released in April 1964, Ford sold 22,000 Mustangs the first day.
The Ford Mustang is celebrating a special birthday this year. This perpetually youthful car—the one that started the pony-car craze—is now a sexagenarian. It’s 60 years old. Hard to believe. The car has been around as long as things like Pop-Tarts, Lava Lamps, and Madonna!It’s difficult to overstate what an impact the introduction of the Mustang made back in 1964. To say it was a sensation with the public doesn’t quite capture its initial reception, but maybe the numbers do.
It didn’t rely on anything dramatically different or controversial, yet appeared fresh and new just the same. This, despite the fact that the Mustang was based on very humble Falcon components. This practice of putting a more expressive body on a conventional chassis would become commonplace in the industry.The success of the Mustang obviously inspired a whole rash of competitors in a few years, or as fast as other manufactures could react.
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