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Long before the name Mustang became a car, it was used to depict a small, light yet wild beast. Mustangs, the offspring of the Spanish horses the continent’s first explorers brought to America, have been declared by the U.S. Congress living symbols of the “historic and pioneer spirit of the West” several decades ago.
Semi-officially, though, Ford chose the name Mustang for its pivotal muscle car not as a means to honor the said horses, but as a tribute to the P-51 Mustang fighter planes (guess where they got the name from) that served the American and Allied militaries so well during the Second World War.
Executive stylist John Najjar, co-designer of the first Ford Mustang prototype, is said to have first suggested the name because well, he was a big fan of the plane.
Yet when seeing a Mustang fenced on a field somewhere in what appears to be a horse training area, the mind immediately links the image with names like Hidalgo rather than Glamorous Glen III. Fittingly, the Mustang depicted in the gallery above has been captured on camera on location in Texas.
So here it is, an apparently untamed Ford Mustang, born in 1969 and restored sometime during its life to these incredible looks. We are not being told, with the exception of the fact that it sports an automatic transmission, anything else about what other hardware makes the beast tick. The engine does suggest a 302 V8, but we could be wrong.
Wrapped in a color its builder calls Bright Blue Metallic, it proudly wears black on the hood scoop, the front grille and the rear window guard. For kicks, a rear spoiler can be thrown into the deal.
The muscle is for sale, of course, going for $20,500, and just waiting to get back on the road with its free-roaming siblings. It goes complete with paperwork showing all the work done on the car.
Executive stylist John Najjar, co-designer of the first Ford Mustang prototype, is said to have first suggested the name because well, he was a big fan of the plane.
Yet when seeing a Mustang fenced on a field somewhere in what appears to be a horse training area, the mind immediately links the image with names like Hidalgo rather than Glamorous Glen III. Fittingly, the Mustang depicted in the gallery above has been captured on camera on location in Texas.
So here it is, an apparently untamed Ford Mustang, born in 1969 and restored sometime during its life to these incredible looks. We are not being told, with the exception of the fact that it sports an automatic transmission, anything else about what other hardware makes the beast tick. The engine does suggest a 302 V8, but we could be wrong.
Wrapped in a color its builder calls Bright Blue Metallic, it proudly wears black on the hood scoop, the front grille and the rear window guard. For kicks, a rear spoiler can be thrown into the deal.
The muscle is for sale, of course, going for $20,500, and just waiting to get back on the road with its free-roaming siblings. It goes complete with paperwork showing all the work done on the car.
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