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Offline Paperback Writer

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2015 Meets 1967...
« on: November 11, 2014, 02:24:57 PM »
Saw my first 2015 Mustang out in the real world this weekend at a local Cars & Coffee event.
Here are a few photos of the new car flanked by a couple of 1967's...

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1967 390 GTA Convertible
7R03S110###
76B - V - 6U - 30J - 72 - 1 - U
(Actually built on 9/22/1966 - Eight days ahead of schedule)

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Re: 2015 Meets 1967...
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2014, 02:32:18 PM »
PS - Somebody needs to get one of these cars up on a lift to start documenting all of the little factory-correct assembly line markings and stickers.  The generation six Mustang restorers of 2064 will thank you!

1967 390 GTA Convertible
7R03S110###
76B - V - 6U - 30J - 72 - 1 - U
(Actually built on 9/22/1966 - Eight days ahead of schedule)

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Re: 2015 Meets 1967...
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2014, 02:45:08 PM »
PS - Somebody needs to get one of these cars up on a lift to start documenting all of the little factory-correct assembly line markings and stickers.  The generation six Mustang restorers of 2064 will thank you!



Oh SURE they will! There wil be so much documentation available to them and as technology advances come along...Restoration will look NOTHING like it does today, as it looks VERY LITTLE like it did in 1980 already!

btw, More likely I'd pick that '67 ragtop over the 2015 GT anyways ;) ...but I have always been partial to the '67's even though I always had me eyes bent at looking at the New Mustang EVERY year since I was old enough to REALLY look at cars (circa 1972)...and I agree... the 2015 is sweet, I haven't seen one in person yet but honestly, for me anyways, every year the new Mustangs didn't do anything motivating enough in me to "Buy one New" from 1974 model year thu 2004 then BAM! There is was, the intruduction of the 2005's and Mustang Fever hit again! I got one in ragtop as soon as I could and couldn't be any happier with a new car! (OK...a ten year old car with 27K on it now)
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2005 (04/05) GT Premium Convertible, Windveil Blue, Parchment Top w/Med. Parchment interior,  Roush Body Appointments

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Re: 2015 Meets 1967...
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2014, 03:20:27 PM »
It is amazing how far technology has come. I read that the 2015 ecoboost 4 banger is a 14.1 second quarter mile car with automatic.
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Re: 2015 Meets 1967...
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2014, 10:15:32 PM »
It is amazing how far technology has come. I read that the 2015 ecoboost 4 banger is a 14.1 second quarter mile car with automatic.

Technology has come a long way, but honestly, man has been building  better mousetraps  year by year since the cave man days,  so there better be some technological advances  in the past 50 years,  or we're going backwards.

  What's disappointing is the styling. It doesn't show any improvement from what was done in the 1960's. In fact, the sad truth is cars these days are butt ugly. From the finest Ferrari to the lowliest  Ford  they all leave me cold. 

I've owned many fine cars, and a few that were beautiful as well, including the one Enzo Ferrari called, "the most beautiful car ever made," the Jag E type.  I put the first generation Mustang up there with the all time greats.  But something happened in the seventies, all cars lost their lines, and just got bigger, then the oil embargo hit, and they got smaller, but didn't  have the beautiful proportions of the '60's cars from Detroit and elsewhere. And, in my view, we've never found our way back to the simple beauty cars once had.


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Looking for '65-'68 manual V-8 coupe
that doesn't need a new body