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SILVER SPRINGS FORD AND
MUSTANG ROUNDUP 2012
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INSET: Silver Springs’ glass-bottom boats take
park visitors on a fascinating tour of the natural
springs feeding the headwaters of the Silver
River, where gators, waterbirds, and
flying fish hang out.
photography by Austin Shaw
and Tom Shaw
With its main showroom just down the road in Ocala, National Parts Depot, the show’s primary sponsor, always brings an interesting sample of its
outstanding car collection. This ’79 Ghia is Fox Mustang No. 100,001, powered by the turbo 2.3, and optioned out with leather seats and vinyl top.
It was sold new in the Chicago area, driven for about a year, then stored. NPD also has the very last Fox Mustang produced.
Good weather and
great cars in an old
Florida nature park
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f you’re ready for a breather from the latest Arctic cold front, the
annual Mustang Roundup in Silver Springs, Florida, is where to be.
This year, nearly 1,000 cars packed the park to take advantage of the
good weather and wild variety of superb Fords and Mustangs, and
maybe even an interesting Mercury or Lincoln.
Silver Springs, an attraction dating back to the 1800s, became a
major draw for Florida visitors in the 1950s, as the park welcomed
800,000 guests a year. It has also been the location for filming over 100
episodes of Sea Hunt, 1930s-era Tarzan movies, and parts of James
Bond movies, among many others.
Today, the nearly 100-percent-pure water still flows millions of gallons every day. And every January, a long line of fine Fords flows into
the park, forming a powerful attraction of nature and automobile that’s
hard to resist.