Topic: Mustang Advertising in 1964

[Twilight65]

I was viewing a video/commercial from Ford when they were advertising the release of the Mustang in 1964. As I was watching this 12 minute clip I found it interesting the few things that changed on the car when it was actually released to the public. With the mustang birthday so close I thought I would post pictures that I screen shot from the video.

65 grille no bars



Windshield wipers look very rounded


Never seen a rally pac like this, tach turned in


289 Hi-Po emblem looks to be from Fairlane


Seats have button on back


Shifter with flat plate


Shifter in console (Not sure about this one maybe correct but havn’t seen)



Brake pedal completely different


2+2 with painted gas filler neck


Also looked at commercial from the "Millionth Mustang Sale" in April of 1966 you could get the package with accent stripe, six cylinder, console, wire wheel covers, and a personalized nameplate on the glove box door with your name on it.

[J_Speegle]

Thanks the reason you can't /shouldn't use advertising and sales brocures for restoring Most if not all of the cars are engineering, styling or other preproduction cars.


Remember the 66 with the three separate taillights on each side   ?

Had a friend (wrote allot of books on and for Ford) that found a storage locker full of original pictures from the company that printed the sales brochures. He called me and asked if these were good resources for a coffee table book on the early Mustangs to which I told him that he would spend more room in the boox explaining what was not correct (to the production cars) in each picture that it would distract from the over all look and feel of the book.  Think he passed on getting them or at least never used them in any book - in great volume

[NEFaurora]

Interesting Note Jeff on those "Special" taillights that were going to be the standard 1966 Taillights, but were cancelled.  Quite a few pieces of actual Ford promotional material went out with those taillights on them.  A pair of those actual taillights actually showed up at a California swap meet? in the early 1990's and Mustang Monthly actually devoted a whole article spread on them.  I have the issue somewhere, I can't remember the actual month/year.  I'd have to search the archives.  It was a great spread though, actually comparing the production item with the "Never produced" 1966 version. Apparently the Ford Design Group had a few pairs of these wide taillights actually commissioned to be produced.  I have no idea of who owns any of them today, but would be great to see on a car..using a car as a "sacrificial lamb" to actually display them... They actually remind me of '69 taillights..Now I would like to see that comparison side by side.. Those 1966 "Never produced"tailights actually exist and someone has them.  I think two known pairs had actually surfaced, I'm surprised that no one through MCA has ever mentioned them again... I guess the taillights went underground only to surface sometime another day in the future.  I would love to see them again!

Tony K.