Best Muscle Cars
By Dave Ashton
We generally take for granted the final production design of any vehicle. All those elements that seamlessly work together are the result of many meetings, arguments, cost evaluations, plus sleepless nights…and that’s just on the first day. The iconic Ford Mustang is no exception.
Introduced to the public in 1964-ish, the Ford Mustang had to go through many design changes, some of these looking completely alien from the final version. Luckily for us, the guys over at classiccars.com have put together a photo essay of some of the initial design iterations from those early Mustang mockups.
Choosing which elements to go into the final design must have been a bloody nightmare.
Take for instance the initial badging. The iconic Mustang logo could have been a Cougar. But, what design of Cougar should we choose? Which way should it