The Ford Mustang's First Phony Car

Muscle Car," two distinctive cars come to mind, the Camaro and the Mustang. Throughout the era of the early 1950's and 1960's, there was a revolutionary movement that took place and paved the ground work for today's "Muscle Cars" known as the "Ponycar Era." Ask any avid Camaro or Mustang fan about the ponycar era, and watch their pain. They will describe cars that would light the tires on fire, floor it, and hang onto the wheel excitement. Back in the 1960's a new idea was soon to hit the American market, the Ford Mustang. When the Mustang was introduced, General Motors soon to had to follow with their own type of sports car. The car they generated was know as the Chevrolet Camaro. The cars

Much like the comparisons, the Camaro and Mustang have very different options about them also. The first major one would have to be the manufacture. Chevy vs. Ford. Many people have their mind set on one

The story of the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro is one intertwined from the beginning. The Mustang came first in mid-1964, offering bang-for-the-buck performance in a sleek package. Three years later, the Camaro answered with its own take on the idea. Skip to 43 years later, and the battle rages on. Today, we will be taking a look at the V-6 versions of today's pony cars, and see which one comes out the winner in a paper challenge royal. To make it a fair comparison, we will divide the competition up into four rounds essential to any pony car fan: styling, performance, comfort, and features, with extra weight given to styling and performance. Naturally, the winner

The first shelby mustang was made in 1965. This car was made as a track car. Thru 1965 and 1967 they made 348 copies of this car. According to a recent poll conducted with 53 students, faculty, and staff of Crane High School,91-percent of them prefer mustang over camaro. The reason being of them choosing mustang over the camaro is that the mustang has better exhaust. Also it is 5.4 decibels louder than the ZL1. In the show head to head they said that the mustang beats the camaro in handling (5).

People often get this class confused with the Muscle class. The main difference between a Pony car and a Muscle car is the size. Pony cars are usually smaller coup sedans while the muscles cars are midsized coup sedans. Genuinely at the end of the day Pony cars and Muscle cars are built with the same goal in mind “performance”. The Pony car era was jumpstarted by the presence of Ford’s Mustang in 1964. The Mustang’s price tag was set at $2,368 and was available in a coupe or convertible and numerous engine options. Due to the Mustang’s popularity GM decided to respond back with the Pontiac Firebird and the Chevrolet Camaro. And later on in 1969 Dodge introduced yet another entrant into the Pony car segment, “the Challenger”. The challenger was rather bigger than that of its adversaries the Camaro, and mustang and was a rather risky and late decision by Dodge but it proves to be a good one, as it seems to stand toe with the two. The Pony car class went well underway especially with full on war between Chevrolet, Ford, and Dodge as they all fought with their cars to see which one comes out on

Engines. Unlike mustangs Camaro had appearance and performance. The first model of Camaro was the SS or the super sport it had a 350 cubic inch engine with 295 horse power which is about 14 more than the

This auction set to go off at the Mecum Chicago sale is expected to pull a huge number of fans with the Ford Mustang being a favorite of many. This Ford Mustang original owner is Dave Lyall who got it for a buck according to Ford's standard agreement with its sponsored racers. The factory engine specialist took it for restoration before taking it for auction and it now comes with a Hurst four-speed shifter to boost its performance. While it maintains the original livery driven by Dave, changes have been made including Eight inch Blue Streak Slicks and Crager SS

Ford demanded more, so Shelby made the decision to install a 7.0 liter stock engine in the revised GT40s. Enter the Mark II GT40 performance era. In two seasons, the new GT40 became a strong contender on the track. In fact, this improved Mark II won the 24 Hours of the Le Mans 4 years straight, from 1965 to 1968. The ever-dissatisfied Ford was appeased; he had a gold, silver, and bronze medal to hang on his wall. This car has frequently been called the finest vehicle ever produced by Ford. <http://www.cobragt40.co.za/cobra.htm>

Previously, some of Europe’s best vehicles were held back from the US. Beginning in 2008 that all began to change as the Euro-spec Fiesta and Focus were soon sent across the Atlantic. New ST models followed and now Ford has a pair of hot hatchbacks to segue to the handsome Mustang.

The Royal Mail was the first Chevy to complete the specific attribute into one car. The Royal Mail made a great visual

In 1903 the Quadracycle's successor was designed and named the Model A, the Model A was much more refined and technologically advanced. Using a new two-cylinder engine it produced nine horsepower and featured a two-speed transmission with a chain driven drive train that had a maximum speed of 30 miles per hour, and sold for a pricey 850 dollars (Wise 77). Not more than a year later the Ford Motor Co. was introducing new models, the Model C & F were only updated model A's but the new Model B was a

In addition to the new longer body styles, the Rancheros were available with many of the LTD standard equipment such as power seats and windows, power steering, and power disc brakes(Ford ranchero: The “car-truck”). These trucks were big and comfortable, and were offered in the GT models that hadn't been offered since 1968. The last and final year of the Ranchero produced an amazing limited edition 1979 ½ Ranchero with all leather interior, dash board, and special paint color and trim scheme (Ford ranchero: The “car-truck”). The number of these produced is unpublished, but has proved to be a very interesting vehicle on its

In August 1964, Carol Shelby approached Lee Daocca, President of Fomoco at the time. Shelby had a vision to create a high performance Mustang and Shelby wanted a car that could hold its own both on and off the track. Once Shelby received approval to move forward on the project, he created a fastback 2+2 Mustang (Kelly). This model Mustang only had front bucket seats and a console but no back seat, which earned it the name fastback 2+2. This model mustang came equipped with a four-speed manual transmission for more torque, one of the fastest cars of its day. The 2+2 fastback Mustang remains my favorite model Mustang of this year because it had a sleeker, aerodynamic design, and featured a larger engine, the 289 cu in, which produced a whopping 306 horsepower (Tucker1). The official name for this 2+2 fastback Mustang was the Shelby GT 350: Ford named it this for street purposes (Kelly).

In 1961, Lee Iacocca, vice president and general manager of Ford Division, had a vision. His vision was a car that would seat four people, have bucket seats, a floor mounted shifter, be no more than 180 inches long, weigh less than 2500 pounds, and sell for less than $2500.00. Out of this vision, the Ford Mustang was born. After many months of meetings, discussions and market surveys, funding was finally approved for the Mustang in September of 1962. On March 9, 1964 the first Mustang rolled off of the assembly line. Only 18 months had elapsed since the Mustang had been approved for production. In order to keep production costs down, many of the Mustang's components were borrowed from the Falcon, including most of the drivetrain. With

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