Ford Mustang

type
pony car

significance

 * the first pony car
 * greatly competitive in Trans Am
 * Carroll Shelby created his own versions, although it is insisted they are separate cars
 * greatly competitive as a grand tourer
 * used in the iconic film Bullitt, noted for one of the most famous chase scenes in film history
 * after the Oil Crisis of 1973 the Mustang led the new IMSA GTO based Trans Am Series

decade
sixties

trivia

 * originally created as a sports car similar to the Chevrolet Corvette stingray
 * Cobra editions were created, after the iconic Shelby Cobra
 * After the Mustang was given a sixties-inspired redesign after the turn of the millennium, a team in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge used a Trans Am Series tribute livery after racing legends Parnelli Jones and Mark Donohue.
 * sporty "fastback" editions were created
 * Special "Boss" editions were created in five liter 302 and seven liter 427 editions. The former was used in Trans Am.
 * Early generations featured iconic tribar tail lights. These were dropped in the seventies but revived in the nineties.
 * Early generations featured sequential turn signals. The retro-revival brought these back.