About this Ford Mustang

The early history of the Ford Mustang has been attributed to two men, the founder of Ford Motor company Henry Ford himself and secondly Mr Lido Anthony Lacocca who was generally known as just “Lee”. Lee joined the company at the young age of 22, quickly gaining promotion through the Ford Company ranks to the point he led an esteemed team of engineers as the General Manager of Ford’s product development.

It was around this time that many major US car manufacturers had issues with the huge motors of the forties and fifties which were now obsolete. The US saw an influx of smaller European marques such as Triumph, Alfa Romeo, Jaguar and Porsche whose smaller sports cars were hard to compete against. Ford had to find designs and American cars for sale that would match and overcome the European sports car invasion.

After a considerable search, a muscle car design by Gale Halderman was found and the Ford Mustang project was born and registered as a trademark. Much deliberation on certain aspects of this new car took considerable time but eventually, on the 9th of March 1964, the first Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line. It was shown to the public at the New York’s World’s Fair and released for sale on the same day April 17th, 1964.

That weekend has gone down in American automobile history as over that first weekend, throughout the United States 22,000 thousand orders were made. The Ford Mustang was an instant success with what at the time was a reasonable list price of $2,368 it was a sure-fire winner with the baby boomers.

The first question many people ask is whether there is an actual 1964 model or it is known as a 1964½ Mustang? Well, there is a 1964 Mustang and any car built before August 1964 is known as a 1964 ½, but Ford decided to bring out a revised model in August 1964 known as the 'early release' 1965 - all a bit confusing! Ford introduced the hardtop Coupe version and the Convertible on April 17th, 1964 and the Fastback went on sale in August of the same year.

It’s important to note that many cars are advertised as 1964 ½ cars but over the last 54 years they have lost many of their original parts and therefore can not command the huge money being demanded by some dealers and private owners. So again, buyer beware.

The car we have arriving soon is an 'early release' 1965 car and it was registered on the 18th December 1964, so the number plate indicating '64½' should be ignored. We sold it to the current owners in 2016 and the photo's shown are from 2016, but we are assured that it is in exactly the same condition as it was back then and it has covered approximately 4,000 since.

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