[Historybuff]

In reply to Mr. Mustang:
I read a lot of car magazines and websites every day and find that a lot of the information is fragmentary--just floating bits with no connection to each other. So I try to piece together information, really obscure stuff like "Was the 1964 Mustang fastback 2 seater I saw in Greenfield Village in 1964 an official Ford project or someone's custom?" I float this information on the web to see if anyone knows more than I do. It's like the story of the blind men that see the elephant, one feels the trunk and thinks an elephant is like a snake, etc. I feel that a historical forum is a place to ask such historical questions. Hopefully, if I piece together enough facts , I can draw a conclusion, I figure that's history that can be told someday once I have enough facts. A recent example is my discovery that the Mustang II prototype survived and is now in a museum (Owl's Head) . I thought it was destroyed years ago. So I brought that to the attention of the forum figuring East Coasters will now be able to see if in person. Maybe someone will buy it and bring it to a big auction on the West Coast and I will be able to see it. I have no profit motive if this happens, I just wonder what happened to the many Cobras and Mustangs I have seen in the last forty years, such as the Bertone Mustang, Mustang station wagon built by Intermeccanica, Mach I concept car, mid-engined Mustang, Osi Mustang, mid-engined Mustang II, Zagato Shelby Mustang, the Boss 429 missing in Vietnam and on and on. I figure if I'm interested, somebody else is so I bring it up. I believe the section I am in is about history and what better place to bring up historical questions. I am a little surprised at the forumite who cavalierly commented "who cares" about the controversy over which is the first Mustang. If you don't care about history, then
it takes a lot away of the pleasure of being a car enthusiast. If everyone had that attitude we could close all the car museums, ban car clubs and just be happy driving some drone car like a clapped out Chevette to our drudge jobs.

Re the Mustang I: While it was the first car Ford called a Mustang, I can't see it having a serial number as it was a one-off car (this despite the existance of a publicity picture of two of them in the same picture at the same time; which I figure was because one was a non running fiberglass or clay model)