Birth of the Mustang

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15 жыл бұрын

Before the fabled pony car first hit the streets a team of Ford designers and engineers was assembled to create a concept car to test the public's interest in a sporty new car. One of the treats in the video is seeing Phil Clark at work on the original Mustang logo. We also see Clark hard at work shaping the clay on the buck and his sketches adorn the walls of the studio. It's a tribute to an extremely gifted designer who died when he was only 32 but left behind a legacy of automotive design and a daughter, Holly, who's dedicated to making sure the world remembers her father's contribution to the Mustang.
This Ford PR film captures the inside story of the team's efforts that put the first Mustang on the road.

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@mustangdbest220 5 жыл бұрын

THIS IS WHY FORD IS THE BEST

@KingRoseArchives 15 жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting us know about your father and for your support. best, Michael

@dannyr2976 7 жыл бұрын

This car makes me think 'Speedracer'...

@bigstuff52 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading...

@juanmanuelmartinezchavez431 2 жыл бұрын

Con tanto talento y alegría que invirtieron que pena que quizá nunca pensaron en que además de novedosos fuera de los que menos contaminaba pero el afán de competir y ganar resultó en lo que tenemos (.) ¿Con tantas normas para no contaminar qué tipo de gasolina tendrán que utilizar tantos vehículos clásicos que también son clásicos por su nivel de contaminación?Yo siempre he querido un clásico desde que tenia ocho años conocí el motor Ford V8 3.2 del Ford Falcon de mi padre (.)

@KingRoseArchives 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks for viewing. Sorry for the delayed response. Don't have any of the Mustang II Prototype. But have the unveiling of the Pinto. Now, how's that for excitement?

@eddybearall 14 жыл бұрын

Wow Holly some of those ideas were certainly ahead of their time ! Ed

@PE1GVK 15 жыл бұрын

Great Mustang video Thanks for sharing!

@celticgibson 14 жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading. I really enjoyed watching! :)

@MustangMedic 11 жыл бұрын

LOVE THIS VIDEO!

@sandorspalms 8 жыл бұрын

Great video. also you got to love the guy test driving the mustang he is smoking a cigarette! lol!

@4bmain1969427 10 жыл бұрын

I built a toy model of this back in 1963...before Mustang came out...

@inkno701 7 жыл бұрын

Do you know what company made the toy model? I'm looking for any information on models of this car.

@jeantetreault132 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@kidofponymaker 15 жыл бұрын

I LOVE THIS THANK YOU!

@KingRoseArchives 14 жыл бұрын

don't have that. Have a young boy in a soap box racer as part of a Pontiac video. the juniors are really great. Thanks for linking.

@79tazman 11 жыл бұрын

WOW!! Ford had a awesome car there it's to bad they did not make them

@super1million11 13 жыл бұрын

i wonder how different the mustangs of today would be if they kept this design

@fernandobiondi1256 6 жыл бұрын

what the heck does this prototype have to do with the real mustang that rolled out from assembly lines, different engine,different body style and materials it's a totally different car.

@MegaFlguy 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah its a different car. There is one thing they kind of kept. This car had a real scoop on the side. Mustang have that scoop shape in the body.

@TheGearhead222 4 жыл бұрын

After Lee Iacocca witnessed crowd reaction to this prototype, he discovered that it appealed mainly to car nuts and not the market segment that Ford was looking for. Plus, Ford realized how much more profitable a 4 seater is to John Q. Public after changing the T-Bird to a unibody 4 seater in '58 and finally making a profit with it (Ford almost dropped the T-bird after 55-57 production!). FWIW, FoMoCo sectioned a first gen. Falcon to design the Mustang unibody. FWIW, I owned a '67 Mustang convertible, a '65 Mustang notchback, a '67 Falcon Sports Coupe and a '63 Falcon Tudor Sedan (sold in 2018 in Hemmings). (Sigh!) The '70's and 80's were the good old days, when one could buy a rebuildable car for less than $1,000 and expect it to last awhile, before planned obsolesence, gov't emissions, crash tests, mileage and corporate greed took over the auto industry!:(-John in Texas

@tjhaywood100 12 жыл бұрын

Great video! I've never seen this one. Do you have any videos of the Mustang II prototype?

@craigyirush3492 4 жыл бұрын

You can see the GT40 in Lunn’s sketch.

@djack41 4 жыл бұрын

Gas cap above the battery. A lawyer's dream.

@MustangGuru 3 жыл бұрын

Looks more like the styling of the GT40

@dloomis 10 жыл бұрын

Wow if they kept to the style of this concept the mustang would look nothing like it does today.

@bossnine 13 жыл бұрын

Yes they did stop for a time.

@teddybasterd9415 4 жыл бұрын

Really KZfaq hast to censor this

@golfcartracer1 13 жыл бұрын

i cant belive they almost put a v4 in it

@manuelfernandez862 6 жыл бұрын

is like a boat .

@blue6023 14 жыл бұрын

looks like the mach 5.

@davidr4332 6 жыл бұрын

that belong on sea look like a boat you forgot the in build fishing rods .

@trentwilkins6790 8 жыл бұрын

Too bad it did not go into production.

@roadkillontheweb 14 жыл бұрын

Do you have anything that features Mustang juniors in your archives? if you do not know what they are check my videos

@SuperGamesLegend 13 жыл бұрын

Nice roll bar. If you don't care if your head and shoulders are crushed in the event of a rollover that is,,,,

@mistert7958 2 жыл бұрын

That's not a rollbar, it's a headrest.

@golfcartracer1 13 жыл бұрын

i think this could have infuenced the ford gt

@gavinmcdowall5675 9 жыл бұрын

i think they changed it because it looked like a shorter 63 vette....and someone wrote that they stopped making them for a time...no they didn't....they just got really ugly from 74-85.

@Markbeb3 4 жыл бұрын

First Mustang had a rear engine.

@289cobra9 9 ай бұрын

Mid engine.

@rcpmac 5 жыл бұрын

People wonder what happened to the original Mustang design? Lee Iacocca "value engineered" a cheap replacement by using a falcon frame and components and slap a T-Bird like body over it and sell it cheap. Capitalist success and basically crap with a fresh wrapper.

@TheGearhead222 4 жыл бұрын

The Falcon outsold Corvair and Valiant by a huge margin! The only thing hurting Falcon sales were Mustang sales. Remember also that Falcon and Mustang were MUCH less $ cars than most of what GM offered and offered ALOT of value for the $-John in Texas

@cookcars1 11 жыл бұрын

I just read where someone posted that Ford never stopped making the Mustang like Chevy did the Camaro. Let's be honest and admit that Ford did stop making the Mustang from 74 to 78.

@bossnine 13 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness they didnt stick with the concept.........lets not forget they havent stopped making Mustangs like they did Camaros.