The Mustang years

It all started with the Mustang 1.

The time was 1962 and Lee Iacocca and his hand-picked friends got together and created a brainstormed idea of an all new European type sports competition car. They wanted this first Mustang to have an American eclectic European flair. It was to be a lot different from the prototypes that the competition were coming out of in Detroit Michigan. Their Mustang was ultra light weight and ready to compete.
And it was more of a high-performance with ready to go components. Because most cars and a time in Europe were very small they were looking for something that would be like a European look car with American-style. They hired any European by the name of Royston G. Lunn. One was part of the Aston Martin and a lot of the AC cars . Then there was Herb Mish, he was a former Packard designer. They wanted him to be the Mustang project engineer. Mish worked on this project for about 100 days most adorn the summer of 1962. Another contributor to the Mustang 1 was Eugene Bordinat.. The sketches of the Mustang were then transformed into a clay model and this was done in only three weeks. With the hard work of Lee Iacocca and his pressure on these guys, the Mustang project moved along very smoothly that summer. What Iacocca initially wanted in this Mustang concept car were good drivability, good performance, real comfort, and probably what mostly they wanted was its appearance. They wanted it to have a real feature appeal.