Ford Mustang documentary with Carroll Shelby, Mach 1, GT350, GT500

With the help of Ford, the Shelby Cobra was created. Iacocca asked the legend to turn the Mustang into a high-performance vehicle and he will take advantage of this opportunity. The car will be called GT350. Everyone else called it Shelby Mustang or Shelby GT of the At first there were two cars, a soft draft and a streetcar like the other

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s, the

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came with a long list of options, so Shelby's GT Mustang to win national championships. Hertz even offered a special black rental version of the

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that some people rented, raced, and then returned. Auto fraud reaps many advertising rewards from these racing efforts, and sales of the GT350 soon went from 500 to over 2,000 cars.

The race cars looked shiny on the street and people wanted to go so fast. 1966 was a great year for splurge and the Mustang in March was just one. A year and a half after its introduction, the millionth Pony was sold. It would take Chevrolet 40 years to sell a million Corvettes, but it was clear that the Mustang was about to be challenged the following year. General Motors introduced the Pontiac Firebird and the Chevrolet Camaro. These cars were more expensive than the Mustang, but GM's V8 engine and smoother ride attracted some buyers. Ford responded with a larger V8 engine and more interior space than the Mustang.

This space race added inches and refinements even to the gt350. The emphasis was shifting toward luxury. and comfort in 1968 Mustang sales were plummeting while the rest of the auto industry prospered in its 68 Mustang Fastback the PhD was pure TNT 68 Mustang with great options like water Larry rejected competition from other automakers original an idea better than ever for '68 even American Motors was now building a pony car, other Ford models would affect everyone as well. Ford began to become more powerful and the Mustang was no longer unique. Ford knew that some buyers would have opted for a Mustang if the others had not been available in April.

Lovers of the 1968 Mustang smiled with delight that the pony car would soon have a powerful new engine. The Shelby Mustangs were also updated. The new front end and a new engine, the Cobra Jet v8, and a new model, the

gt500

, the

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didn't sell the gt350 for two. One of the biggest news stories of 1968 was the changes to the Mustang, it was an event that shocked Lee Iacocca. Henry Ford lured sailor Bunkie Knudsen away from General Motors and made him president of Ford Motor Company. Ayya ​​Coca was devastated because he wanted the job, why Ford did it. this is not clear it was rumored that he was bored with Detroit he was considering a position in the Johnson administration and simply did not feel comfortable leaving Ford in the hands of Lee Iacocca the tension between Ford and Iacocca put Knudsen in a very difficult situation Henry Ford brought Bunkie Knudsen at the company Lee Iacocca didn't want him there, so clearly he was between a rock and a hard place and you can say that Henry Ford was the sword and Lee Iacocca was the difficult place, but whatever it was, it was disastrous for Bunkie Knudsen and disastrous.

For all the people who followed him at Ford, everyone suffered as a result. One of the people Knudsen brought in was a former co-worker. Larry Shinoda. Shinoda was famous for designing the original Corvette Stingray and several impressive concept cars. By the time Shinoda arrived, it was too late for him. To change the 1969 Mustang, he wanted the car to live up to what its appearance promised. He wanted it to be faster and bolder. Well, the '69 Mustang, the production car was basically finished and my job was to straighten things out until making the boss Mustang needed a Trans Am car to compete against the Camaro c28 their answer a more elegant and sexy in four models the Mach 1 the great luxury The Boss 302 and the boss 429 some say these were the most beautiful Mustangs, they were the fastest production models and were a clear challenge to the Camaros and the Firebird Trans Am.

The Cobra jet engine was king. Then justice. Shelby's 302 began to win. He shocked the racing world in October 1969. Carol is retiring. His heart problems forced him to leave the automobile business. Other Mustangs were doing well on the track and Ford went ahead saying that the Mustang was not capable of translating its racing success into sales. They continued to fall. There weren't enough people responding to the larger Basia cars. It seems like they want the fancy pony car they have. I fell in love originally in late 1969 Henry Ford fired Knudsen Ford gave no reason except that it just didn't work out.

I found out over Labor Day weekend. Ted Mackey told me that mr. Ford was going to talk to me the next day. Well, the next day Henry arrived around ten. He usually came to work around 10:00 in the morning and he came to my office and told me. I asked him if he would please tell me. What he had done or why he no longer wanted my services. The only answer he gave me and everyone else was that it just didn't work. Whatever it is, I have no idea. He refused to say anything else afterward. Ford. He said that he thought Knudsen was setting up a spy ring at Ford and that he had alienated other executives in just one year.

Iacocca's dreams came true. He eventually became president of Ford Motor Company. Sales continued to decline into the 1970s. The full performance car was on the market. A Way Out of Gasoline Shortages Government emissions regulations caused many people to turn to smaller cars Ford executives said compact cars were just a fad. They were sure people would go back to bigger cars, like the Mustang had become. The car got bigger. More people lost interest, even the stylists had a model 69 on a model 70 that I had. I did most of the design work and then you know, I left and they went ahead and made a 351 boss that was a '71 model, which was the Mustang that I didn't care much about, I had nothing to do with that one that was a sort of Carter Knudsen Gale Halderman.

I called the aircraft carrier, even on the race track, the car was skidding. Ford was focusing on emissions and safety compliance. regulations and ignoring racing, big American cars were losing out to leaner, sleeker European cars like the Porsche, the Mustang had lost its way on the track and on the streets, and Ford was stuck with the big FD Mustang while the The public demanded sales of smaller cars. continued to decline, except for the convertible model, sales increased almost 100 percent for the convertible top. Ford had announced that 1973 would be the last year of the Mustang convertible and people latched onto this piece of history: it was Ford's last soft top for a decade.

Nine years have passed. It's been since the Mustang was launched, although a lot had changed, the basics were still there, the car was still af

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able and came with a long list of options, so what had gone wrong, one executive identified the problem, said The car started out as a secretary car and everything. Suddenly, we had a BM on the success of the Mavericks that showed how in the fall of 1973 the new Mustang made it stable. disappeared and then motoring magazine Motor Trend named the 1974 Mustang Car of the Year during its five years of production. The Mustang changed very little but continued to lose ground to more fuel-efficient cars.

Other small cars were defeating the master that we are like some kind of dry arcades. I couldn't understand what kind of things they did. It lost its mystique. He didn't look any different. There was terrible execution and at some point you get upset. Ford tried to accelerate sales. In 1978, with the King Cobra model, fancy paint decals and a coiled Cobra on the hood were part of the package that boosted sales, but no sooner had the Mustang magic worn off in July 1978 than Iacocca was fired. Henry Ford would only say that he just doesn't like it. In his defense, Iacocca reminded Ford that the company had made a lot of money that year, but he didn't fire Iacocca for money.

He later said that Iacocca was too conceited and self-centered. Phil Coldwell replaced Iacocca for Turing economics. and an oil crisis kept Mustang sales low. Ford hoped the planned styling change would get the Mustang back on track in cold conditions. Well, the next Mustang has been introduced. The designers wanted the car to be as aerodynamic as possible. His theme was that form follows function in the end. The Mustang was the most elegant car Ford had ever made. The 1979 Mustang revived the spirit of the pony car that everyone loved. Sales approached 370 thousand cars, a 100% improvement. The magazine's car and driver called the Mustang America's greatest new car: the Indianapolis. 500 pace cars were sold with 11,000 replicas.

The Mustang celebrated its 15th birthday in 1980, with a long list of options. Mustang lovers smile at the revived Mustang racing. A special turbocharged Mustang was driven by a former Porsche driver. Once again, the riders took back the factory with this revamp. Interest in performance spawned the five-liter V8 in 1982, but the Mustang was becoming a victim of its time. Sales fell to a surprisingly low level: thirty thousand cards. The entire auto industry is suffering during the recession. Unfortunately, the new Mustangs they ruined coincided and stagnated. Boring hope. A convertible would revive sales, but even that wouldn't help for the rest of the 1980s, the Mustang flopped, foreign sports cars were out of the market and the economy was stagnant, the Ford Motor Company was awash in red ink and thousands of people were fired.

Development of the Mustang was on the back burner as Ford struggled to survive at the end of the decade. Ford considered putting the Mustang out to pasture and then the letter started arriving and it was the dirtiest thing you've ever seen. I really do not know. how many letters we got, but something like a hundred thousand and they were furious, every letter was nasty, I mean no one was nice, no one said you're really a marketing genius or anything else, they said you're the dumbest bunch of people ever. I have known. I have never seen in my life how you can kill this car and I have never seen so many letters.

I've never seen so much consistency and every single one of them that this is an icon and the American auto industry, how can you? Do this, how can a company be so stupid? I really understood it and they questioned its parentage and various other things, but it was just incredible and all these communications about how people felt the Mustang was unique and how it had to be a Mustang that could not be anything other than Ford getting the message that Now they wanted to introduce a new Mustang to celebrate their 30th anniversary, but time was of the essence, it was already 1989 and it usually took five to six years to develop a car.

Ford had no time to waste a small A group of engineers, designers, and assembly line workers banded together to form Team Mustang, set up shop in a converted warehouse, and got to work saving the Mustang. It was a huge task, but they knew that the fate of the pony car was in their hands. We went ahead and got that group together in August of 1989, we started meeting formally in late September and early October and we actually started working around November of 1989 and that's how it all got started and that program once we actually got something concrete. which evolved into the Mustang team in 1990 the Mustang team got the go-ahead for its plans the innovative program was a radical departure from normal company policies due to the group's structure many bosses had to hand over the reins to their employees over time was essential The 1990s Mustang was on.

Stylists look at the Mustang's 30-year history and listen to customers. It was a very unusual situation. The ninja had a car with such a strong heritage, this kind of name recognition and Ford had a dilemma about how to do it. How can you continue this into the future and satisfy the guys who love the purists who want this car to stay true to its 1960 equipment? If you're fine and yet you take it to the 20th, you know, the 20th century, I mean. In the year 2000 and into the 21st century, it was a difficult task to create a nostalgic-looking car that captured the feel of the original while integrating modern technology.

The design team came up with three models to choose from, the first being nicknamed Bruce Jenner. it had rounded lines and smooth styling, it was shaped and trimmed like the athlete, the second Rambo design was for the person who wanted a wild new car, stunning and powerful, it was somewhat reminiscent of the Batmobile, the third design was over, the rest of Arnold Schwarzenegger was a cross. among the rest, robust but cultural, it became the next Mustang. The new car was presented on October 4. The 1993 Mustang team had met its deadline and for $200 million less than budget, the new Mustang wasready just in time to celebrate his 30th birthday in April.

In 1994, exactly 30 years after its original release, thousands of Mustang fans gathered in Charlotte, North Carolina, to pay tribute to their favorite car by testing it for more of everything. I see, yes, 68 big cards, not even the president thought about his Mustang as the new Mustang hit. a receptive court of the public Don Frye offered his observations if they continue with what they are doing and continue to establish a style and a functional trend they will have a good future keep their foot in it that is a piece of America that is a symbol of our country The Mustang mania is what you need.

More than six million cars have been sold since 1964, that's more than five hundred and forty-five cars a day for 30 years. It has survived recessions, corporate intrigues, government regulations, fickle buyers and many US presidents, after narrowly escaping, the Mustang is once again running free from you.