The featured marque at this year's Keenland Concours d'Elegance was the Mustang. And the event organizers managed to bring out some of the finest examples that exist. Included in that is this first car which was one of only 10 "pre-production" versions of the car that were manufactured. Ford, like other companies, would make a handful of versions of a car to make sure all of the parts would work together. This is believed to be the only remaining pre-production model.
As most people know the Mustang was introduced in March 1964. It was such an immediate success that Ford, who was planning on using a Galaxy 500 as the pace car at that year's Indy 500, made a last minute switch to a Mustang. Because of the short time frame they only managed to make 180 replicas of the pace car. Only 50 are known to still exist.
The Concours folks had excellent examples of every early Mustang that was made, including those extremely cool and very fast Shelby and Mach 1 models. Here are some of the many Mustangs that were on hand.
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