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November 17th, 2024 Rex Turner, whom many Ponysite readers may know from his efforts about the 1972 Sprint Specials, bought in July this year his 3rd Sprint car. To be exact, it is #5 of 50 made. Check out the relaunched 1972 Sprint Special website from Jon Hawayek and his wife for updated information on all Sprint Specials. Check out this external link to the 1972 Sprint Registry |
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October 31st, 2024 Finally found the time to get out the story on the Borning III Mustang and what it's history is. We were waiting for Richard (owner) to move his business, but he has not yet found the time to get in touch with the PO, which was Dave Petersons brother Dean. They used the car as a SOLO racer for some time. After that it was sold to another owner, from which the norwegian mates bought it. Check out this site for future updates. |
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October 10th, 2024 Digging through ebay is the new game. These days many inherited stuff comes on the market obviously. I browsed more often these days and then I found a set of Mustang Milano slides from a 1970 show. Cool stuff. We know many have taken private photos and put them away. Now is the time to hunt again. Check out this site for future updates. |
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October 4th, 2024 News coming soon again. I had some PC and Software backlash in the past month when changing to a new one. SPA 24 6 hour race was like travelling back in time. Click on this youtube link for my travel back in time to 1966 |
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May 27th, 2024 The Pegasus returns to the Ponysite News screen After almost 10 years silence we've got news about the Mustang Pegasus that was under restoration by Ramon back then. Unfortunately he got sick soon after and - while he is still around - his brother now wants to finish the restoration for the 60th Anniversary of its 1965 Custom Car Caravan appearance. . Since this pic was taken the car has been moved already to another location We wish him fortune and connected him to Mark Gustavson (the Lynx Project) and the Veurink family again to exchange knowledge about the details. Actually the car was painted back then with real gold flakes, which cost a fortune back then in 1965. This could not be realised this time, but it leaves room for its future. We'll see. |
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April 23rd, 2024 Larry Shinoda said in an interview with Mustang Illustrated back then, that the Mach II C project was ended, because Henry Ford favoured the De Tomaso connection already. Interesting to see the two Mach II concept cars with the Mangusta staged at the Design Studio, probably around late August 1969.. There was certainly potential in the Mach IICs lines to create a sort of McLaren.  |
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January 29th, 2024 Just when you think, you've seen it all, Holly Clark pulls something from her drawers, that should really go in a 60th Anniversary book. This time another Mustang I drawing of her father, that has never seen the light since 1962... hidden somewhere in a pile. And it got unfortunately wet in history or spilled with tea or coffee, but is still in decent shape to tell about his role. What a treasure! Note that this one is marked up with Cardinal Sports, dated May 1st, 1962. |
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Interclassics at the MECC Maastricht/NL was worth to visit for the
120 Years of Ford Motorsport special show alone. 28 race cars on display
including the 1896 Quadicycle up to the latest GT40 liquid carbon no. 3 of
30, which was for sale for 1.499.000 Euro. 800 cars in total awaited 35.000 visitors and convinced them, that the Interclassics is a show for the average vintage car enthusiast with buying options on a moderate level. Of course there are also outstanding and unique gems like Aston Martin DB5s and what might have been a 250GT (or tribute?) and many others, but they make up a good show of course. Still tool vendors, leather stuff, scale models, artwork and paintings, needful things garner the very interesting mixture. Good start into 2024 for Ford - obviously with more sponsoring from Ford Europe than we know here in Germany. We are looking forward to more engaged 60th Anniversary shows in 2024 in all neighbouring countries as well. Watch out on www.fordperformance.com for my report. Should be on there, John promised:-)   |
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January 10th, 2024 The first event of the 60th Anniversary in Europe is a good one, a 120 years of Ford racing history at the MECC in Maastricht/NL. Ponysite will have an extensive report on it here. Stay tuned for more insight. |
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22nd December 2023 This is indeed Christmas Time for Holly. At the recent Clark Estate sale, her Grandmothers Buick got sold to a Mustang enthusiast, the Cougar was already reserved by another and ready for pickup. But the Buick Regal buyer got a carton box full of car stuff with him and when looking into it on his way out, he found original Phil Clark designs and a complete file of personal stuff in it, being marked up like that. Being a true Mustanger, which means honest, empathic, social, open hood minded and interested in the Mustang history, he left the complete box to be handed back to Holly. His name should be mentioned, it is Santa Mike Rich. Thank you Mike, your honesty and thinking of Hollys efforts to get her father known is very much appreciated by all of us. A huge suprise. Holly had looked through hundreds of piles and into many boxes, but there were some corners she, her husband and her relatives could not really get into. A great coincidence this carton box was not dumped. .  Looking at this almost 3D looking design, it shows elements of the mid 50ies to late 50ies design, the fins certainly disappearing by mid 50, yet the sidelines getting more important. There are some design clues that resemble the La Salle roadster and Corvair/Corvette studies, the 1959 Corvair Roadster had already sidescoops. This artwork was in a folder of the 1955 period, yet Holly is sure that Phil did it in the design courses he took prior to the Art School, Phil started to attend in 1958. Maybe we can date it better some time soon, but 1955 maybe right with the remaining fins. Anyway it shows that Phil Clark worked for several years already on the sportscar variety. We might publish some of the 50 plus designs in the near future, but it makes it absolutely necessary that this talented designer gets his part of fame at future Mustang shows. The 60th Anniversary should be one of the opportunities to present them to a larger audience. |
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Top Exclusive news 16.December 2023 Just shortly before Holly Clark (now Burr) turned 57 on her Birthday, she found again during sorting out the vintage stuff at the Clark estate the original 1962 first Pony emblem made by her father Phil Clark. What a coincidence and what a rare find! Back then she had searched mainly the attic of her mothers house to find many of the original draft sketches and design sheets around the Mustang I, but this time she could go through all the stuff in the preserved room of her father (like it was in the 60ies) before the planned vintage pickers sale of the complete estate. She finally found in her fathers piles,the original Pony emblem, which is visible in the 1962 Ford PR movie laying next to the drawing or made after that clay model. We will finetune this story in the next days, but don't want to miss the opportunity now. 61 years after it was made, it is out again in the sun to be seen and studied. Stay tuned for more findings that tell a story about what happened really in 1962, when Phil Clark came with that Mustang idea from GM to Ford as a freelancer and Art Center stylist. |
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Is this the new Capri 2024 or just the next Mustang?* For sure not a sportscar, but it might find an audience as a smaller affordable variation of the Mustang sold worldwide, if the price is right. Not saying that it has anything that resembles the old Capri 2+2, but unfortunately todays buyers ask for smaller SUV. Alfa is launching its small SUV Milano soon and others are jumping with their Smart #hatchtags on the market. *Pic modified (Original Talkwheels.com) |
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Revell brought out a great new 1:25 scale model of the Diamond Mach 1 as a gift kit with 129 parts to assemble. Make sure you get it in time for Christmas.  |
 Available in any scalemodel shop for about 49.99 Euro incl. paint - ready to assemble! Check it out here. |
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Nov/Dezember 2023 Time to celebrate 30 Years Ponysite, though I do not remember, when exactly I started, but I do not want to miss that opportunity before it turns to 2024. Never thought I would run this for 30 years. I bought my 68 Mustang just for a year and then just kept it for the past 31 years. Looking for information on the then new web, I found only Tom Schmidts link page to a dozen Mustang sites, Vintage Mustang Forum and the famous Mustangsandmore.com Forum. Well, there was a Bullitt site as well, but that disappeared later on. So with my curiosity I started to contact many guys and girls in the US, but also during my travelling I met Mustang enthusiasts all over the world. |
 Without all those contributors the Ponysite would have certainly been just a testbed for a few years, but one information led to the other and after a while News were coming in automatically. So girls and guys. Thanks a lot for your continuity and deep respect, I shared back with you. Things have changed today, but lets focus on respect - all you in the Mustang family. |
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November 2023 Sad news pile up this year: Malthe Huth, a long time befriended early Shelby racer died on the October 29th at the age of 78. Being born in 1945 he started his racing career under his fathers coaching very early and got a Shelby Mustang G.T.350 at the age of 21. Said to be "organised" by Lucky Cassner and a military US staff person, he collected many 1st places with it along with 2nd and 3rd places in his career with 84 races in total. His statistics show that in 30 percent he was up front. His other cars were a Jag, which was totalled and a BMW. R.I.P. Malte, it was a pleasure being in touch with you over decades and I wish the last known owner had given you more information on the Shelby to trace it down. |
 Peissenberg Race, May 1st. 1966, 1st place. |
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Sad news again: Basil van Rooyen, ex-Mustang and F1-racer died September 14th at his age of 84. Basil was well known in the 60ies in our circles racing this Mustang. There is an interesting story about this Mustang from 2018. Acc. to that Basil made his first experience in a Lotus Cortina, which was given to Meissner and Koos. Ford asked Basil later to focus on Ford business, but as a Koni agent in the UK, he could not limit that. He was thus not considered for the Mustang racing first, but succeeded to buy his own Mustang stopping an owner on the streets and agreeing with him on a good price, then brought it for modifications to Superformance, where he put in special bent exhaust tubes. He later let Frank Gardner drive it once and used the Alan Mann shop for the Brands Hatch race (only) before selling it to Fred Cowell, who raced it in SA. A possible later presented car was not verified acc. to Basil himself.Basil became Managing Director of Superformance later until he moved to Australia in 1987. Here is a link to his orbituary Rest in peace. |
 Below the Mustang in 1967 in South Africa  |
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Somewhere on this site in the news page 37 we reported about the Shelby from
Piers
Courage. Actually after 40 years ownership, the current owner C.A. now parts
with his treasure via Bonham in the UK. If you are looking for a Shelby with some extraordinary history including street use, hillclimbing and then circuit racing, have a look and decide yourself, if SFM 6S438 could be your next car. The original street licence plate was HH4VD and later another one, whlle this one now carries a KCX135D since it is vintage raced again. Check the history out on the bonham auction site and contact SAAC for further details. |
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Raynald Belanger has an interesting ongoing project - collecting
build sheets from 70 Mach1s, Boss or any model. He has already gathered a larger 2-digit number, but would like to back-up his findings with even more to assist in further decoding of the build sheet codes. So, if you want more specific decoding or just want to help the project, pls. contact Raynald at Raytags at vif.com. If you have one of the rare Factory Production Data books from 1970, you are very welcome to contact us here as well. |
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24./25. June 2023 saw two major Mustang shows in Germany. The Wild Ponies welcomed about 4-500 mostly classic Mustangs in Mainhausen, though visitors reported of a drop in the final count. Too many events going on this year. Still it was a cosy meeting for old school Mustangers. Just a few members of the FMCoG and other clubs joined. ...and a more modern Mustang oriented Meeting pulled about 600-700 cars with a much larger share of late Models in Pullman City in the Harz area. Friday saw a lot of rain, so the main parking area was closed the Saturday morning. Small groups of classic cars got their own center place. The arriving late models needed some time to enter the area, but most enjoyed the cool atmosphere in western style houses.  |
 My friend Hans joined old and new comrades in Mainhausen with his 1970 T-5 BM Boss tribute. Ralf and Susi Wurm also joined the family meeting of the Wild Ponies, a good home for classic as well as restomod Mustangs.  |
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27th/28th May 2023 saw the 41st Mustang
Meeting of the FMCoG, limited to club members cars. Not sure, how many cars attended yet over the 2 days, but this overview may allow a count for you. The club has over 800 members meanwhile, the location was Automobile Welt Eisenach, place of the former Wartburg eastern german car production. Thanks you our close friends - the Duffys - for this very well done drone flight. Click on the picture to see the mp4 |
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It took almost 60 years to recreate a very close
tribute car of the winning Tour de France 1964 Mustang.
Carlos Lopez went the extra miles to create one featuring all the details in the trunk area and the interior. With close attention to the many details under the hood as well he succeeded to find more hidden documentation in the past years. He is planning a visit to Alan Mann Racing Team soon and we hope to get more exclusive shots of the car in its genuine environment at the TDF Auto 2024 maybe, but at least at the known racetracks and with the sons of Alan Mann. Alan would be proud of Carlos for sure. Congratulations to Carlos.  |
 Properly radiused front fender, the rear gas cap on the rear fender for the additional fuel tank inside, the leather strap on the hood, there are so many details that Carlos needed to pay attention too. Just one sample is the special oil cooler. Stay tuned for more.  |
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February 22nd, 2023 Some Mustang/Shelby enthusiasts leave a larger footprint behind and I'd like to picture in this context the footprint on the moon. Almost everybody having subscribed to Mustang Monthly or having visited the SAAC conventions since the first firs ones, knew Bob Aliberto. Bob was responsible for the BEYOND THE BASIC column and filled it continously over 33 years with clever tricks and responses to questions from readers. For many his knowledge was saving us a lot of money including me. For some years I made a listing of his contributions, unfortunately I have no complete list. Let's hope someone will publish a book very soon. Bob was born in 1948 and died on the 7th of February 2023. Rest in peace and condolences to his family. |
 I met Bob briefly at the SAAC 25 in Lime Rock. Most of the time while I walked the racetrack, I met him at the refill station. Seems like this was his favourite place for a short break. Let's hope he can continue racing up there. |
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February 14th 2023 You don't see a Shelby lettered Mach1 too often. We know when, where it was delivered ex-factory, yet it does not really make sense, as it wasn't a typical Shelby Europe trace from the US. Could be it was made later by someone. Anyway it was delivered to Newark, close to a port on the east coast and could have been exported to Europe. During the time of this picture it had again travelled far and ended up near Auckland/NZ. Now we need some information about its history from 1972 onward, until it arrived over there.. We know where it is today, but we need to fill gaps and mysteries. Anybody from NZ out there, who had worked at this import dealer in North Shore/Auckland? |
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December 18th, 2022 On January 27th, 1965 Carrol Shelby introduced the Shelby G.T.350 to the press at the Riverside Raceway. Actually 10 test cars were there including a Cobra and a GT40 and a Competition Model. We think that at least 6, if not all first Advanced Prototypes were there, since all of them were finished until January 25th. We'd like to hear your feedback. The reason we put this up here, is that our friend John from the Mach1 Registry happened to be at the 2022 Muscle Cars and Corvette Nationals, where many Advanced protoypes were on display. Check out our picture portfolio. |
 January 27th, 1965 the official press launch of the G.T.350 at the Riverside Raceway |
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November 22nd, 2022 Unfortunately we have to report today of the loss of a true friend - Jean Pierre Versini, Chief Editor of the french Mustang & Shelby magazine died at the age of 59, 2 days after his birthday. Jean Pierre ran the magazine with his mates/team since 2016 and it attracted not only new Mustang enthusiasts, but also long-time insiders due to its top-level researched content. The magazine exists since 2013. We hope his influental brain- and artwork finds continuation as a legacy. Sorry to loose a true Open-Hood-Mustanger in the scene. Sharing information was his passion. Condolences a son famille. R.I.P. Jean Pierre. |
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September, 29th, 2022 I am sorry for the long period of no news. FB has allowed enthusiasts to create a lot of groups one feels obliged to follow to not miss new photo material and new guys sharing their photoboxes...at least. Q&A are often just opinions and search for knowledge behind.. is taking more times than in the early Internet era, yet the dynamics and the opportunity to exchange much faster actual and historic tidbits has taken a bit away from websites. To maintain this site is about 5:1 more complicated than FB. I won''t join Instagram or Twitter ever, that's clear for me. However I enjoy the much more interactive, spontaneous and JIT exchange with friends on Facebook. The disadvantage is to get lost in the amount of information, so filtering is a must and that may indeed filter out occasionally the goodies. Plus it is almost impossible to retrieve again informations, that one has not immediately saved. So be it. |
 I will still maintain www.ponysite.de more often, because it was and is intended for almost 30 years by now my lifelong scrap book for everybody, who like me wants to enjoy Mustang stories from around the globe and connect with the authors or contributors one or the other day. Especially these days we need good and factual stories rather than the negative bullying of social media trollys. In 1993 we shared knowledge, today we spent too much time with opinions and dislikes, let's refocus on the chances of Internet - making new friends on eye level. Stay tuned. |
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July 28th, 2022 Francisco Lobinho is a professional scale model builder and contacted me quite some time ago trying to create a 1:43 scale model of the 1968 Jacky Ickx Mustang, which he raced at the Spa circuit. Since I had some pics of it while in Dr. Eymanns ownership, I searched again all pics I had taken during a visit of Dr. Eymann. Actually he had bougth the Ickx car back then via Luxembourg (or Lichtenstein) and raced it first in its original livery red with blue stripes. Thus I could help out Francisco to check a few details that were missing in his photo documentation. Here you see the final result of his 1 of 1 build. Actually the graphic stripe and number kit is sold by the portuguese company Minisquadra. Check them out on Facebook. The model isn't listed yet, first appearance is here.  1967 Mustang raced by Jacky Ickx at Spa in 1968. |
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July 23rd., 2022 Hallmark has released a nice gift for your Christmas tree already. It is from their Keepsake Collection. The one that is of special interest is the 1962 Mustang I concept. Order while stock lasts for 15-20 Dollar. |
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July 5th, 2022 Herbert Mueller was a famous swiss race driver, part of the Scuderia Filippinetti team. He was a true Shelby lover, not only racing a 427 Cobra with Pete Ettmueller, but he used to have his own toys around like the 66 Shelby 6S342 or two 1967 Shelbys. I stumbled over all of them in Germany. Being sold via the outlet of the Scuderia, which was Performance Cars Ltd. in Geneve they are true gems today. Stay tuned for the individual history records of these 3 cars, which are still around in private hands as of today, two in Switzerland and one in Germany. |
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May 14th, 2022 1:8 scale models are certainly the always of interest. 56cm is something tough to overlook on your desk or shelf. Following 2 other Mustang/Shelbys now a UK based company has made a 1968 GT in Dark Highland Green, to which you can subscribe to get regularly new components and build it over a period of 18 months. Since I am not at all patient, it's nothing for me to think about, but I know there are more people that enjoy building any kind of scale model or spent hundreds of hours on one project alone. This one is for you from Eaglemmoss/UK. Update July 23rd: We hate to mention it, but Eaglemoss got into trouble and filed for bankrupcy. Read on here. We are sorry for the collectors and employees of Eaglemoss. |
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April 10th, 2022 Canadian 1968 Mustang GTS revisited The mystery car of which we received a first sighting years ago has meanwhile be nicely restored to its original color. Turned out it was most probably not a Mainway Ford promo, but one from Holiday Ford Sales in Ontario with a special DSO built in Dearborn. Looking for more information on advertisements or other announcements. Read the entire story exclusive here on www.ponysite.de |
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March 20th, 2022 Some insiders followed the ARI pace car convertibles sales at the BJ auction earlier this year. They went respectively for 200.000 Dollar (the blue) and 175.000 Dollar (the green) plus fees. Actually we heard that the green one will undergo a complete restoration and the blue one be corrected in certain details now. They will be certainly some time around on the showfield in the upper classes. We'll keep you updated in our related ARI registry pages. |
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February 8th, 2022 Today we lost another racing legend in Europe. Claude Dubois died at the age of 89 due to a heart attack. RIP Claude.  Claude in 2004 signing his book. He even send me a pre-version of the english translation and was kind enough to share many original documents since the 90ies with us here. |
 A personal note to Rauno Harvima, owner of 2 1971 SE convertibles, which he still owns today.  I was in touch with him for decades, he even offered me a 66 GT350 once for 45.000 Euro only, I still regret of not having bought it. Claude liked to share his memories long before his book came out. I met him in 2004 and on many other occasions at dutch or belgium vintage car exhibitions. He signed many things, but his personal notes to owners of his cars were indeed ...personal. A gentleman race driver has passed away. Thanks for the memories you shared with us Mustang editors in Europe even before the Internet was ON. |
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January 25th, 2022 Well, I have a new favourite car - of course a movie car and a race car in one. Everybody of us Mustangers has probably seen the Ford vs. Ferrari movie. A little overlooked by many, but it catched my attention upon its appearance in the movie instantly. The #99 lettered 65 Mustang hardtop that got a sidekick by a green GT40 during the race. 4 Mustangs were actually built by Billy Stabiles shop for the movie, 2 of them as stunt cars and two as rolling shells to be burnt in a scene. We'll present you the aftermovie story of all 4 of them here, stay tuned for updates. |
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