Mustang Mania – fast facts &
oddities about the legendary muscle car
- The Ford Mustang was launched in April 1964.
- 22,000 orders were taken on the car's first day.
- In Chicago, a showroom closed early and called the police when disappointed would-be
buyers stormed the dealership.
- In Garland, Texas, 15 customers bid on the same Mustang. The winner insisted on sleeping
in the car overnight to guarantee that it wouldn't get sold from under him before his
cheque cleared the following day.
- A restaurateur invited his customers to sample his "hotcakes that were selling like
Mustangs."
- Mustang-crazed parents in the United States bought 93,000 pedal-powered children's
Mustangs during the 1964 Christmas season.
- The original pony car outpaced its entire first-year sales estimate of 100,000 in its
first four months on sale.
- More than 417,000 Mustangs were sold during the first 12 months - a record-breaking feat
for a new car.
- More than 6.9 million Mustangs have been sold in the last 35 years.
- The one millionth Mustang was sold by March 1966, less than two years after its launch.
- In less than three years from its release, 472 Mustang clubs with 32,000 members sprang
up across the United States.
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