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Car of the Day : May 27, 2013; MotorMax '77 Ford Mustang II
Topic Started: May 26 2013, 10:21 PM (392 Views)
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Today's car is the 1977 Ford Mustang by Motormax.


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The second-generation Ford Mustang is a pony car that was manufactured by Ford Motor Company from 1973 until 1978. It was introduced in coupe and hatchback versions for the 1974 model year, in time for the 1973 oil crisis. The Mustang II had no common components with the preceding models and shared its platform with the subcompact-sized Ford Pinto.



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The first generation Mustangs grew in size; the 1973 model had become markedly larger than the original model. The pony car market segment saw decreasing sales in the early-1970s "with many buyers turning to lower-priced, fuel-efficient compacts like Ford's own Maverick - a huge first-year success itself."[2] The Mustang was growing to become an intermediate-sized sedan, "too big and alienated many in its customer base."[3] The allure of the original Mustang was its trim size and concept. The automakers in Detroit had "begun to receive vibrations from the only source it really listens to — new-car buyers... The message: Build smaller cars" as customers stopped buying and the inventory of unsold new cars climbed during the summer of 1973, and there were already positive market expectations for the new downsized Mustang.[4] Automakers were "scrambling" by December 1973 as "the trend toward smaller, less extravagant cars to surge ahead faster than anyone had expected."[5]
Subsequent to becoming president of Ford Motor Company on December 10, 1970,[6] Lee Iacocca ordered the development of a smaller Mustang for 1974 introduction


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The 1977 model year introduced a "Sports Appearance Group" for the Ghia model that was color matched to either black or tan paint, as well as several minor styling changes and color options for the Cobra II. Also new was a T-top option for the fastback featuring twin removable tinted glass panels.



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The best Mustang II we have in small scale is this Motormax example in my view. It's a bit on the high side as far as the ride height concerns but otherwise is pretty well proportioned.

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Stampede
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Awesome! A very nice model by MotorMax.
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pjedsel
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Muscle Car
MotorMax did a number of nice models in this series including this Mustang. It is to bad they "were here today and gone tomorrow".
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juantoo3
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Nice!
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Sak
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The entire decade of the '70s was, for all intents and purposes, 'Sports Appearance'.
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JustDavid
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Agree with PJ...I've never seen this Mustang in person.
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ivantt
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
I'm glad I grabbed a few of these before they disappeared. A change to a smaller wheel would make it perfect!
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I remember these but these and Zach those pictures are very nice.
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