and it was popular in the neighborhood and at my HS. I always wanted a Mustang so I finished college and just before I got married I bought a Mustang II with straight drive, T-top, 8 track, and spook wheels. It was so cool (at the time). Mine was red. We drove it on my honeymoon. I was so worried that it would get decorated for the wedding that I hid it, and the best man took an hour to find it for our getaway while everyone stood around.

Great memories of interesting times!

There is something about a 1988 GT convertible (red of course) just screams "white trash" to me that I can't resist. If I had a decent disposable income, I'd have one of those in a heartbeat.

malaise

This is one of the cars I really want to own someday - a 1956 Mustang

Diclotican

B Calm

I see - sorry about the wrong year - But I still want one

But sadly Im afraid I have not the money for it - and I suspect it would be somewhat more easy to have a never - more efffective car than this in the parking lot to.. But a man can allways dream ?

Diclotican

buying a new one. Dad had it for about a month and took it back to the Ford dealership and traded it it in for a 1964 Ford Fairlane 4 door. He didn't like the Mustang because it only had 2 doors and he kept bumping his head getting in and out.

B Calm

Cool - nice I guess - for your children that is - for your dad it might had been somewhat painfully - bumping his head going out and in all the time.. I was not born in 1964 - in fact my mother was a young girl back then - she was born late in the 1950s - but I doubt my grandfather had a Mustang - I suspect he never got a driver license either - even as i he was in the army from he was old enough to get in - to he retired in the mid 1980s.. But he was driving a moped some times I do rembember....

Diclotican

pinboy3niner

I might be - dam the numbers

Diclotican

All the nostalgia cars they're making now -- the Dodge Challenger, the Camaro, and the Mustang -- are beautiful cars. I'd love to have any of them.

My DREAM wheels! Droooooll !
I got a ride in one last summer-- Red (of course) convertible with cream interior.. We did an afternoon winery tour in the Finger Lakes. Heaven!

Those new copies? Uh uh.. no way. As nice as they are they are not the same..

Needs needs some new rubber, new tires and a fluid drain.

Was UNION-BUILT! I've owned six, thank you very much.

If I remember my side scoops right. I had a '65.

Find me a 64 please

It just seemed to run forever.

The 1964 Ford Falcon:

Different sheet metal and interior.

Great color

but a hard top. That is one car I have never seen at car shows.

very similar, except my was stupid pink!

only half kidding…..

Thank you for all those years helping to pollute our atmosphere and contribute to climate change!

We couldn't have done it without you! Here's to fifty more! Enjoy your special day!

Happy Birthday!

Love,
Shankapotomus.

for being a good sport.

ourselves

Others talked about getting a Camaro or a GTO, but the Mustang was always way up there in talking about plans for the future.

Last week I saw a new Mustang parked outside a local shop and it brought back memories...

I had a boyfriend who owned a '64 - same color as the one in the OP

It was a burgundy convertible. It looked small for a Mustang--but damn, it looked good!

I'm thinking about getting a new car. I'm frugal and tend to go economy, like an Escort. But too many cross-country trips on those flimsy seats have convinced me that I need to move up. The Mustang is pricey for me, but I'm not ruling it out...

One reason guys in Vietnam fantasized about new cars was that the military's Soldiers Deposit program allowed us to bank our pay at 10% interest (and if you were wounded, that rate continued as long as you were hospitalized).

So if you were single and did your time out in the field where you weren't spending your pay, you could come home with enough of a bankroll to buy a new car.

In my case, I was able to plunk down $6100 cash for a brand new '70 E-Type Jaguar convertible roadster.

Jaguars. I'm just a boring pragmatist - I'll admire nice cars but still buy a Corolla

I'd nearly died in the war and a lot of friends had died there, and I didn't expect to live very long, so I splurged.

Later I got into hippie vans (plus a beater for driving to and from work) and then economy cars like my Escorts.

My current Escort is 14 years old, so I think I'm ready for something new.

What do you think--should I go for a phallic symbol that will shout how sexy and desirable I am?

and had use of it (my parent's 2nd car) for a good part of my later teen years.


I also owned the same car, in a different color, later in life as well as a '90 later still.


It is a little like your first love. A formative event in your life. Some small part of who I am is different because I was driving around in a '73 Mustang when I was 16-17 years old.

I own 2 Fords even now. Not that I have not owned a multitude of other makes of vehicles along the way, I have. I can't justify a pony car at my age. It would just be a toy. I sure would love one though.

Thanks for posting this. It was a nice addition to my morning.

It is a little like your first love. A formative event in your life. Some small part of who I am is different because I was driving around in a '73 Mustang when I was 16-17 years old.

Have a nice day

Midnight blue, Cragars, 4 speed.

my Rangoon 65 coupe was Build Date'd ten days after my DOB.
I hope it enjoyed the years we spent together owning the road.
our Springtime 67 S code ragtop is the coolest Mustang in town.
They are special cars, all of them, but especially the original iterations.
Happy birthday, Ford Mustang!

as long as they stay in the right hand lane we are all good

Love the color. Mopar had some great looking muscle cars. It's a shame they put obnoxious paint jobs on so many of them.

on those old ones. Three bars of lights. We had a couple old Mustangs when I was a kid in the '60s. They came out the same year I did

Who designed that, Clarabelle?

a black interior, with the Pony package. Super car.

I did add one of my favorite union songs.

wrecked it of course….

Though owning one goes against my environmentalism and budget I think the new GTs are beautiful.

There were some corrosion problems.

I bought it to drive me to and from a summer job in a steel mill during the summer break from college.

It lasted me a couple of years before it was towed away for unpaid parking tickets. By then the trunk had rusted out from the bottom, I had another car lined up, the Mustang would not pass inspection anywhere ... they did me a favor.

It was a great driving car. Anytime something broke, it cost about $10 to get it fixed, as parts were plentiful and cheap. I drove hundreds of miles on a dead battery by parking the car on a slight incline, allowing it to roll forward, or backward, when I needed to start it up again, and popping it into gear. The car would start right up.

love the dead battery part.

I was in college.

It was a really, really, great car.

That's a very cool car for college