Mustang Production: 1965-69

[Cal Metal]

A definite segment buster in the first few years. Notice the drop off in sales, as GM finally got around to launching their pony cars in 1967. Great numbers, though, throughout the decade.

I remember reading where someone indicated that the Mustang accounted for $2.1 billion (pretax) income through the end of 1969 for Ford. Those were the good old days.

It looks like '66 was the premier year with over 600,000 units being sold. '65 would include the 64 1/2 year production.




1965:

Fastback------------77,097
Hardtop------------501,965
Convertible------- 101,945

1966:

Fastback-------------35,968
Hardtop-------------499,751
Convertible--------- 72,119

1967:

Fastback-------------71,042
Hardtop-------------356,271
Convertible----------44,808

1968:

Fastback-------------42,581
Hardtop--------------249,447
Convertible----------25,376

1969:

Fastback-------------61,980
Hardtop-------------128,458
Convertible----------14,746
Mach I----------------72,458
Grande---------------22,182

[Satanpez]

Anyone know what kind of cost increase there was to go from coupe to fastback?

It seemed you could get a 6 cyl fastback also. I would imagine it must have been a huge cost increase as...well, comon, who'd choose a coupe over a fastback?

One of the biggest reasons for the profit was they already had most of the tooling paid off since the basic chassis was Falcon based. (500,000 units in 1960)

-steve in nj-