May 1964: “There’s no doubt in our minds that this latest personal sporty car from Ford will sell like proverbial hotcakes.” Those were the first words of our first review of the first Ford Mustang, which we called “a fancy filly for fun-loving folks.” (Forgive us; it was the ’60s.)
Our afflictive affection for agonizing alliteration aside, we guessed right. Ford hoped to move 100,000 Mustangs in the first year of sales; customers bought four times as many. Within two years, Ford sold
