1964 FORD MAGIC SKYWAY RIDE MUSTANG

1964 FORD MAGIC SKYWAY RIDE MUSTANG
Ted Ryan, Ford Heritage Brand Manager and Archivist, revisits the Ford-Walt Disney Company connection and showcases the 1964 FORD MAGIC SKYWAY RIDE MUSTANG. Well, that was fun! The Ford Motor Company Archives arranged the loan of one of the original “Skyway Mustangs” to the Walt Disney Company D23 Ultimate Fan Event, held in Anaheim, California. I was invited to talk about the Magic Skyway ride, which used twelve all-new Mustang convertibles to take visitors on a nearly half-mile, 12-minute rid...
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FORD MUSTANG MAN: CAPT. STANLEY TUCKER!

Canadian airline pilot Stanley Tucker owned two different milestone Mustangs in the first two years of the car’s production. After Tucker managed to buy a pre-production Mustang convertible with serial number One that was not meant to be sold, Ford traded him that car for a new 1966 convertible – the One-millionth Mustang produced. By the time the ‘65 Ford Mustang officially went on sale on April 17, 1964, it had been rolling off the assembly line at the Rouge factory in Dearborn, MI, for a...
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