{"id":12087,"date":"2015-02-12T15:11:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T23:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=12087"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:59:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:59:21","slug":"the-mustang-mach-1-a-royal-stallion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/the-mustang-mach-1-a-royal-stallion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mustang Mach 1: A Royal Stallion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Detroit<\/a><\/p>\n

The iconic status of Ford\u2019s Mustang\u2014and even more so, the Mach 1 is undeniable. No other car can claim to be more popular\u2014or sexier looking. But in 1967, it was simply a brand new car receiving a lot of pomp and circumstance. In this press photo of the 1967 Detroit Auto show, front and center is a strange-looking performance-oriented example of Ford\u2019s pony car. The low-level roof line, square headlights, and one-off wheels provide proof that this is definitely a prototype. The Mach 1 concept was created to preview the 1968 model. Initially, the concept car had a front end that drew inspiration from the concept 1963 Mustang II. Later in the design phase, the Mach 1 designers developed a new grill area that was closer to resembling production Mustangs of the time. How cool would it have been, if the racing-style gas cap on the rear pillar would have been retained for production, and wow, wonder what those wheels would be worth today!<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Mach 1 moniker announced performance oriented Mustang offerings until the original retirement of the name in 1978. In 2003, the name once again adorned the Mustang as a high performance version of the SN95 platform. This generation of the Mach 1 was discontinued after the 2004 model year, with the introduction of the fifth-generation Mustang.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throwback Thursday, Welcome to the 1967 Detroit Auto Show.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":12090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3447,22,2169],"tags":[1337,687,1984,43,1983,1572,663],"class_list":["post-12087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic","category-event-coverage","category-throwback-thursday","tag-tbt","tag-classic-cars","tag-detroit-auto-show","tag-ford","tag-mustang-mach-1","tag-randy-bolig","tag-throwback-thursday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FEAT8.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-38X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20829,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087\/revisions\/20829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}