Hot Rod 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 picture gallery - The Ford Mustang Mach 1 is a performance-oriented option package of the Ford Mustang, originally introduced by Ford in August 1968 as a package for the 1969 model year. The Mach 1 title adorned performance oriented Mustang offerings until the original retirement of the moniker in 1978. Ford first used the name "Mach 1" in its 1959 display of a concept called the "Levacar MACH-1" at the Ford Rotunda. This concept vehicle used a cushion of air as propulsion on a circular dais.
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69 Mach 1 Mustang and try to guess when it was built. Its fastback, big-block goodness slaps you in the face in a naughty kind of way, and ooh baby, check out that stance. Trends are a fickle thing that come and go, and these days hacking up factory sheetmetal and molesting the good work of yesteryear’s best Detroit stylists is the Pro Touring flavor of the week. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but if Rick Flores has anything to say about it, that’s not the point. “Like lots of hot rodders, I’ve always loved the factory body lines of mid-’60s and early ’70s muscle cars. The bodies on these cars have such a classic shape to them that they don’t need any alterations.
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