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[NutmegCT]

The first Ford Mustang "pony car"!

Debuted at the 1964 New York World's Fair:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-story-of-the-original-mustang-the-first-three-production-runs-19641966-161103.html

Oh do I wish I'd had one back then - and had kept it!

 

[Bob McElwee]

I had one and traded it on a ‘67 Austin Healy 3000. I wish I could have kept them both.

 

[Gliderman8]

The first Ford Mustang "pony car"!

Debuted at the 1964 New York World's Fair:

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https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-story-of-the-original-mustang-the-first-three-production-runs-19641966-161103.html

Oh do I wish I'd had one back then - and had kept it!

I rode in one at the 1964 Worlds Fair.

 

[AngliaGT]

I bought some of the 1/25 scale promotional models - $1.00 each,including postage.
It seems that most of them were Baby blue for some reason.

 

[John Turney]

My (at the time) in-laws had one of the original ones. I didn't like the seating position.

 

[DrEntropy]

Brother had a "Forest Green"(?) convertible. 289 V8. Western PA winter salt got it eventually. Girl cousins had the same color and chassis, but the straight six. I'd like to have either one today!

 

[equiprx]

The first Ford Mustang "pony car"!

Debuted at the 1964 New York World's Fair:

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https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-story-of-the-original-mustang-the-first-three-production-runs-19641966-161103.html

Oh do I wish I'd had one back then - and had kept it!

When I saw them at the Worlds Fair I didn't give them much notice.
I was familiar with the Falcon platform and all it's issues.
By the time I began to appreciate them prices were astronomical.

 

[NutmegCT]

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By the time I began to appreciate them prices were astronomical.

Kinda like today's prices for food, gas, heating oil, electricity, fertilizer ...

 

[3798j]

Kinda like today's prices for food, gas, heating oil, electricity, fertilizer ...

The dollar just doesn't buy what it use to...

 

[waltesefalcon]

When I saw them at the Worlds Fair I didn't give them much notice.
I was familiar with the Falcon platform and all it's issues.
By the time I began to appreciate them prices were astronomical.

I'm still waiting for them to grow on me.

 

[BobHaskell]

The dollar just doesn't buy what it use to...

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I'm retiring after 40 years with my current employer. The calculator says that it would take $3 today to purchase what $1 would in 1986. Wow.

 

[NutmegCT]

Imagine the "Great Inflation" of the Weimar Republic. Your cash has 100,000/th of its face value. You have a $1,000,000 bond, but it now only buys one loaf of bread.

 

[mikephillips]

Yep, they used to literally bring wheelbarrows full of cash to buy one little thing during that period since what was needed was too big to carry in your hands or pockets. Those in charge today need to sit through lessons on that period to try to get them to understand the consequences of wild spending and printing money faster and faster. And you know, if they at some point crash the dollar, not on will we be poor but all the millionaires and billionaires could be too if their cash has no value for anything but starting that winter keep warm fire...