Mustangs Rule at Fabulous Fords Forever


Mustangs ruled the day at the 29th annual Fabulous Fords Forever car show.
“This is the Mustang year,” said Fabulous board member Mark Bodrie. “From 12 months ago we knew we were going to center this show on 50 years of Mustang.”
You could argue that every year is a Mustang year at FFF, with the storied two-door often making up more than half the entries. Sure, there are other fine Fords, plenty of them, but the Mustang is the alpha male.
“It's all flavors of Mustang out there: classics, performance, original and Mustang Sally who just wants to have fun,” said Mustang enthusiast and Saleen Club managing director Jim Dvorak. “There's a Mustang for every personality.”



The exact numbers are still being sorted out, but some estimates said there were between 860 and 870 of them on-hand Sunday, from original '64 ½ models to the coming all-new Mustang, the latter in silver GT Fastback trim.
Great Ford personalities were there, too: George Follmer and Parnelli Jones, who made Mustang history racing each other in Trans-Am; drag racer Butch Leal; Henry Ford III; Daytona winner Scott Pruett; drifter Justin Pawlak; and Willie Stroppe, son of the great Ford race teams manager Bill Stroppe.
Longtime Ford PR guy John Clinard was recognized with the Lee Iacocca award for service to the car community. Linda Vaughn was there. Thousands of fans were there.



And as we said, it wasn't just all Mustangs, either. There were SVT Lightning pickups, '61 Lincoln convertibles, Mercury Cougars, Pintos, Fairmonts, Fairlanes, Galaxie 500s, Thunderbirds, early Broncos, Econoline vans, there was even a single, really cool 1947 Ford F5 truck.
“I've been coming here 25 years,” said Bill Sawyer, standing next to one of his three Fairlane 500 Skyliner Retractable Hardtops. “I have a lot of fun.”
This year, as every year, everybody else did, too.


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