Word: mustangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Falcon has been restyled into a sporty car for the family man with Mustang spirit but too many kids for bucket seats. It is almost three inches longer (184.3 in.) than the '65 version, has a long Mustang hood and a Mustang-like dropped-off trunk lid. To the Mustang-styled Falcon Futura line, a new sports coupe has been added, with wide bucket seats, 14-inch wheels and the standard Mustang engine. The Chevy II, which G.M, almost abandoned when compact sales began slumping, is lower and wider...
Germany's ten manufacturers showed off 30 basic models that come in 155 different versions, all with higher horsepower than before. Notable among them: Opel's completely restyled fastback Kadett, which borrows some of its lines from the Ford Mustang, and NSU's Spider, the only car in the world powered by the Wankel engine. Twelve companies in the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan are now experimenting with the engine (which was developed in 1954 by Felix Wankel, a German engineer). The Wankel replaces conventional pistons and cylinders with a triangular rotor, has only two major...
...California's Ed Weiner: the $10,000 Transcontinental Trophy Dash for propeller-driven airplanes, piloting his P-51 Mustang from Clearwater, Fla., to Reno, Nev., in 6 hrs. 28 min. 37.9 sec. for an average of 373 m.p.h. Weiner covered the seams of his plane with tape to cut down wind resistance, stopped just once for fuel, landed at Reno with only 11 gal. of gas to spare...
...example: a push-button system that enables the driver to set his car to a given speed and cruise without touching the accelerator), more powerful engines, longer bodies, less chrome. One of the major changes will occur in Ford's Falcon, which has borrowed liberally from the successful Mustang, with a short rear deck and a long hood; like most other Ford models, the Falcon has also adopted the hop-up, or gently swelling rear-fender curve, pioneered by General Motors...
...Untamed. The most poignant passages in the volume, however, describe what happened to mustangs who could not be tamed. Many of them broke their own backs while trying to buck their riders off. The great White Pacing Stallion, the most famous mustang of them all, was captured after a pursuit of more than 200 miles, but proudly refused to eat in captivity and died. Wildest of all was "the massive steel-dust stallion" described by Blackfoot Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. When his herd was corraled, the stallion went mad with fury and frustration. He murdered two other young stallions...