Hot Rods & Muscle Cars: How the Ford Mustang Became an American Icon | History

Lee Iacocca’s newly designed Ford Mustang was a high-powered, affordable coupe for the masses that broke all post-WWII sales records in 1964. #CarWeek
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[@redbirdauto1713]

Great piece of Muscle history!

[@vettekid3326]

What all the hype doesn't say is the mustang was built on Ford Falcon platform and the 260 V8 was fitted to that first in 1963. The first Mustang test mules were cobbled together from Falcons.

[@jonathanrodriguez5837]

💙 the mustang, the greatest muscle car on the Planet.

[@Christ_is_Lord_]

Love my mustang

[@ExecuteOrderSixtyBrix]

Pretty sure that's Dennis Mccarthy not Eddie Alterman.

[@lisasmith9311]

A lot of people think the Ford Mustang horse was made by someone else it was originally made by my dad Bill Swan,Ford asked him to make a horse something wild he first drew it out and they loved it so he made it out of fiberglass and Ford paid him 100 and he also got a Thank you card from Edsel this is the same exact horse the emblem was copied from it's his horse sitting on the car and I have the original in house

[@89Kele]

The only car that matters.

[@sandraguthrieguthrie9729]

Beautiful cars

[@tylernickerson6668]

Amazing

[@hughphillips67Mustang]

The Mustang is NOT named after the horse. It's named after the WW2 fighter jet.

[@maureencora1]

The 1967 / 68 Fastback GT is the Greatest Mustang.

[@therealjayy-1189]

Season

[@SuspenseESCAPEremastered]

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[@Dailypanther]

First

[@torres870rem]

Yea. For the White rich kids.

[@89Kele]

True

[@Christ_is_Lord_]

sorry u cant afford one lol

[@blackeye3336]

Hater alert also not true at all mustang is for everyone and has always been