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Re: Mustang...Spitfire???

To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Mustang...Spitfire???
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 16:09:56 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Joe Curry wrote:

> Andrew Mace wrote:
> 
> > But it was still a pretty clever thing, that original Mustang of April
> > 1964. I'll take one!
> > 
> 
> Yeah but only because they are "cute" or valuable, not because they are
> a true Sports Car.  "Car and Driver" magazine did not rate it very
> highly in their first report on the car!  8^)

As I recall, "TIME" liked it just fine! :-) Besides, if one knew which 
parts and options to order (as did, for example, a certain Mr. Shelby), 
one indeed could make quite the sports car out of the Mustang. Of course, 
by that time the price was up there with the E-Type or the Cobra.

--Andy

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