To launch at the 64 Worlds Fair is also amazingly good timing
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To launch at the 64 Worlds Fair is also amazingly good timing
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The stars certainly aligned with the combined efforts of Gene Bordinat, Gale Haldernmann, Hal Sperlich, Joe Oros, and of course Lee Iaccoca in developing the Mustang and getting it to production at exactly the right time. It was a brilliantly executed combination of a beautiful design that didn't look like anything else on the road-much less a Ford, but underneath it was economy of scale; i.e., it was mostly a Ford Falcon. What's surprising is the biggest hurdle in the Mustang's genesis was selling it to Henry II.
ReplyDeleteyes, I've posted about the Falcon Mustang connection before. But it was obvious in the works since the T Bird, and with the Nova, the Tempest, VW Bug, Corvette, Nash Rambler and Metro and other cars of small size and possible competition for a market that was ready to open up, Ford had to come out with something to follow up on the 55 T Bird's success.
DeleteTrue, Henry II was really anti progress... most of his generation of corporate leaders were conservative, and felt they had to be safe and protected against the beatniks and hippies by doing something to maintain the old ways and the traditional ways of uptight white collar megawealthy car makers
and then just five years later is outsold by the Maverick, a car no one has ever heard of.
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