timberlandko wrote:NickFun wrote:Nuthn beats a '64 Mustang.
There was no '64 Mustang. While introduced in late April of '64, the Mustang, developed on the Falcon platform, debuted as '65 model. Initially, there were 2 versions, a hardtop and a convertible, with a 2+2 fastback coming along a few months after its older siblings hit the market. The notion that the Mustang was the first of what became known as "Pony Cars" - sporty compacts - is erroneous; the Plymouth Barracuda beat it to the showrooms by several weeks. The first Barracudas shipped under Manufacturors' Certificates of Origin - the official shipping document from which a vehicle's initial title derives - designating them as '64 models, but all Mustangs produced from introduction through early July of '65 shipped as '65s. '66 Model Year Mustangs went into production in mid-July of '65.
One my of younger sisters got a brand new '65 Mustang in June of '64, a highschool graduation present. It had a 2-speed automatic (column shift), a 170ci, 101hp I6 engine, an AM radio (Philco) with 4 preset buttons, and a dealer-installed under-dash Muntz 4-track tape player, which had one speaker in the dash and one in the rear package shelf. She drove that thing untill it all but completely rusted away, some time in the mid '80s.
Oh, BTW - my vote goes to the
Camaro - though I really preferred my 'Vettes for all out "Ohmigawd" motoring fun.
Correct but incorrect my freind....
The Mustang, introduced in April 1964, was built on the compact Falcon's platform and came with a Falcon suspension--soft springs and four-wheel drum brakes. The '64½ was actually considered a '65 by Ford, but many people use the terms to differentiate changes made by Ford after mid-August 1964. At this time there were engine changes, the Mustang switched from a generator to an alternator plus interior and exterior color revisions.
To be a '64-1/2 at all, a Mustang has to be factory-equipped with a generator charging system, a 170ci six (U-code), a 260 2V (F-code), or a 289 4V (D-code) low-compression, large horns mounted down on the frame behind the radiator, a brake light pressure switch on the master cylinder, a center "off" heater fan switch, and a generator charge light, just to name the basics. These are features exclusive to Mustangs built between early March and July 31, 1964
Early '65 Mustangs have the distinction of being the first block of Ponies ever produced. They were an integral part of the Mustang madness that swept the world in 1964. And if you have a "'64-1/2" built at Dearborn, that makes it even more significant in the relative scheme of things, because it was born in the motherland.
