Car Guy Magazine Car Guy Magazine issue 115 | Page 58
Mustang Pace Car
To get enough pace cars for the
festival, Ford tapped local Ford dealers to supply them. As a result, the
actual cars used at the race ran the
gamut of specifications, interior colors, and other features with the only
thing tying them together being that
they were all Wimbledon White. But
the coupes are special, built consecutively and assigned special Pace Car
White paint (code C, 1964 only) and
fitted with special Pace Car graphics
supplied by 3M. It included not only
the familiar door markings, but also
a blue stripe running down the center of the bodywork (remember this
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The rest of the details were standard
Mustang fare, including chrome
bumpers, the “pony corral” front grille
emblem, and familiar ‘260’ badges on
the front fenders. This one has been
fully restored to those original specifications with paint done about five
years ago to a very high standard. It
shows a few signs of use, but there’s
no question that showing up in this
car is going to cause a stir.
While the festival convertibles
had all kinds of different interior color
combinations, all the pace car coupes
were white buckets with blue carpets
and dash, which is how this one has
been restored. The combination is
clean and elegant, perfect for a car
that’s designed to attract attention.
The materials used throughout were
accurately reproduced and unlike so
many other Mustang restorations,
there are no significant modifications
or deviations from stock. It’s even got
reproduction blue floor mats! The
shifter sticks out of the transmission
tunnel, sans console, as when it was
new and the lovely white steering
wheel matches the dash exactly. All
the gauges were restored and look
fantastic and the factory AM radio