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Michael Mueller
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Mustang: An American Classic Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
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Since it galloped onto the automotive scene in the early 1960s, the Ford Mustang has become an American icon. With hundreds of photographs celebrating the evolution of this treasured sports car, including many from the archives of the Ford Motor Company, this comprehensive volume explores the Mustang in terms of its design, engineering, and racing genealogy, as well as its impact on American popular culture. The Mustang will celebrate its 55th anniversary in 2019.
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| Weight | 2.7 kg |
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| Dimensions | 36.8 × 29.7 × 2.7 cm |
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Mustang: Une américaine en France
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The Ford Mustang is an essential element of American automotive history and has a special image in France, perpetuated by enthusiasts who maintain the dream. She appeared at the cinema in the 1960s in A Man and a Woman, who won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 and in Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez and quickly became the star car with Johnny and Sylvie, Sheila and Ringo, Mike Brant, Dick Rivers, Claude François, and so many others who drove her with happiness. The Mustang is also the car of sports participation, from the Tour de France Auto to the Monte-Carlo Rally, passing by the car of Henry Ford II at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1966, where Ferrari knees down, without forgetting all national, regional and historic rallies, to famous or obscure competitors. And the Mustang is also featured in the Tour de France cycling caravan with Anquetil, Geminiani, Blondin. Seen from its windshield, here is the novel that unfolds before her in France, at different periods of her life.
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Elément incontournable de l'histoire automobile américaine, la Ford Mustang a en France une image particulière, perpétuée par des passionnés qui entretiennent le rêve. Elle apparaît au cinéma dans les années 1960 dans Un Homme et une femme, qui obtient la Palme d'or du festival de Cannes 1966 et dans Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez et devient rapidement la voiture des vedettes avec Johnny et Sylvie, Sheila et Ringo, Mike Brant, Dick Rivers, Claude François, et tant d'autres qui la conduisent avec bonheur. La Mustang, c'est aussi la voiture des participations sportives, du Tour de France Auto au Rallye de Monte-Carlo, en passant par la voiture de Henry Ford II aux 24 Heures du Mans 1966, où Ferrari met genou à terre, sans oublier tous les rallyes nationaux, régionaux et historiques, aux concurrents célèbres ou obscurs. Et la Mustang figure également dans la caravane du Tour de France cycliste avec Anquetil, Geminiani, Blondin. Vu depuis son pare-brise, voici le roman qui se déroule devant elle en France, aux différentes périodes de sa vie. Itinéraire original, ce chemin parsemé de souvenirs personnels ou historiques, d'anecdotes et de références évocatrices, est appuyé par des photos originales de Mustang d'exception, naturalisées françaises.
1968 Shelby Mustang GT350, GT500 and GT500KR: Muscle Cars In Detail No. 3
There were Mustangs, and then there were Mustangs. Ford wanted its new little Pony Car to appeal to the masses, and in executing that plan, the Mustang could be had in anything from a plain-Jane version with an economical 6-cylinder engine (often referred to as a "secretary’s car"), all the way up to the sporty GT models with optional 271-hp V-8s. Unfortunately, although road-going Mustangs were considered sporty, they were not officially sports cars, at least according to the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). And Lee Iacocca knew that on-track performance led to showroom performance, so he needed to go racing. Enter Carroll Shelby. Shelby worked with the SCCA to modify the Mustang to meet the SCCA's requirements and enter the racing arena. The result was the now-legendary Shelby Mustang.
This volume of CarTech's In Detail series covers the 1968 Shelby GT350, GT500, and GT500KR. In 1968, Ford sought to take over much of the process of producing Shelby Mustangs and increased that production dramatically to meet anticipated sales demand, so it was a bit of a transition year. In an effort to appeal to muscle car fans rather than race fans, the cars were losing their edgy race car feel and were becoming more high-end performance road cars with a long list of performance and comfort options including 428 Cobra Jet Engines, automatic transmissions, and air conditioning. They may have no longer been sports cars, but they were now fantastic muscle cars.
As in all In Detail Series books, you get an introduction and historical overview, an explanation of the design and concepts involved in creating the car, a look at marketing and promotion, and an in-depth study of all hardware and available options, as well as an examination of where the car is on the market today. Also included is an appendix of paint and option codes, VIN and build tag decoders, as well as production numbers.
Shelby Mustang: Racer for the Street
When Ford wanted to add some spice to its new Mustang pony car in the mid-1960s, it turned to the talented, colorful, and opinionated Texan Carroll Shelby, who was then building the high-performance, Ford-powered Cobra racing sports car . The result: the Shelby Mustang GT350, perhaps the definitive performance Mustang of the muscle car era.
Ford released its newest Mustang in 2005, the first truly all-new Mustang since 1979, returning the model to the spotlight. The most-talked-about versions of the new Mustang have been those with the Shelby name. Shelby himself was directly involved in defining what is the most powerful factory-produced Mustang ever. This up-to-the-minute history from award-winning authors Randy Leffingwell and David Newhardt traces the Shelby Mustang story from the early Shelby American cars built in a converted airplane hangar in Southern California to the 2010 version of the new Shelby Mustang.
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