Vic van Leeuwen's old Volkswagen served him able-bodied as he served in the Air Force in Alabama. But he was about to be absolved on May 30, 1966 and he had a job that appropriate traveling to academy in New York. He knew "that old VW wouldn't accomplish it."

Up until again van Leeuwen was assertive of the ahead of the adopted car. But again absoluteness set in. He bare affordable and reliable busline from Alabama to New York.

"Then two things happened," he says, "I saw a Mustang 2+2 fastback on the highway, admired it and again begin out the GT archetypal came with disc brakes and able suspension."

It was accepting backward in the archetypal year and the Huntsville banker couldn't help, nor could the Decatur dealer. The Birmingham dealership didn't accept one, but said they knew area they could acquisition one. Vic van Leeuwen adjourned a amount on the car that he had not seen, let abandoned apprenticed or sat in.

One acumen it was so difficult to acquisition was that it was by far the atomic produced Mustang archetypal in 1966 with alone 35,698 manufactured. Features that accomplish a Mustang a GT include: fog lamps, GT stripes, bifold exhausts, faster steering, stiffer suspension, Kelsey Hayes disc brakes, and an added 21-horsepower engine.