AMERICA embraced the Mustang in a way not seen since Henry Ford put the world on wheels with his Model T.
It all started in April 1964 when Ford displayed a new compact coupe that it hoped would compensate for sad sales of the conservative Falcon. Knocked over in the rush was never a more appropriate phrase.
Within five months, 135,000 of Lee Iacocca’s ‘secretary’s car’ had been sold and 93,000 of them were V8s. A year later there were 553,000 more Mustangs on global roads and a new word had entered the language – Ponycar.
Other USA manufacturers were moving mountains in order to share in the bounty, but the Mustang had come first and it got to set the agenda for
