9/25/2023 0 Comments 1971 mustang mach 1 lime greenHowever, it appears that the owner includes the original hubcaps in the sale. The Mustang rolled out the door wearing steel wheels and sports wheel covers, but these have made way for a set of shining Magnum 500s. ![]() The tinted glass looks flawless, and the chrome sparkles as impressively as the paint. The stripes look crisp, with no evidence of lifting or other issues. The owner doesn’t indicate whether there is a history of rust problems, but none are visible in the limited photos he supplies. The panels are as straight as you are likely to find in a Mustang of this vintage, and the gaps are consistent and impressively tight. It holds an impressive shine, while faults are few and far between. I like the original shade, but I can’t say that I find anything wrong with the new color either. Back then, it wore Light Pewter Metallic paint, but that has made way for a glowing coat of Forest Green. The ownership history of this Mach 1 isn’t clear, but I can confirm that it looks very different today than it would have the day it rolled off the line in Dearborn. He has set the BIN at $39,000, but he leaves the way clear for interested parties to make an offer. The Mach 1 is located in Mill City, Oregon, and the owner has listed it for sale here on eBay. It is a clean car with no apparent needs, except that it is a classic that needs a new home. They were a prime candidate for more changes and upgrades than it is possible to image, and our feature ’71 Mach 1 stands as proof of this. That’s still a decent number, and I sometimes wonder how many of those cars survive today in an unmolested state. The company managed to sell an impressive 149,678 cars in that model year, but this figure was well short of the dizzying heights of only a few short years before. The purchase does include right and left floor pans, so the originals must be in trouble.By 1971, the writing was clearly on the wall for the First Generation Mustang. The lime green (?) paint has run its course and the rear quarter panel on the passenger side is a bit suspect. The interior is being used to store things that may or may not include any seats. So, it doesn’t have muscle car era potential if you got it, and the C6 automatic transmission back in running condition. Under the hood resides a 351 cubic inch “Cleveland” V8 with a 2-barrel carburetor. The mileage is said to be 40,000, but if that’s true, the car led a hard life to earn them. So, the seller is going after those potential buyers who might need parts for another 1971-73 Mustang project. ![]() While it’s no beauty or show car in its present stage, this Mach 1 may be in worse shape than it looks atop the trailer as the seller admits he/she doesn’t know whether it can be saved. Ford was not the only pony car builder to struggle during this period, and both AMC and Chrysler would exit the market space in 1974. The Mach 1 was still a decent seller, at least in terms of its share of the Mustang pie (in 1973, one out of four Mustangs was the Mach 1 with the “flatback” roof that you had trouble seeing out of from the back). So, it took more horsepower (and gasoline) for the car to do its thing. heavier than when it was first conceived. With its most recent restyle in 1971, the Mustang was 800 lbs. Our thanks to barn finder NW Iowa for the tip! ![]() Located on the back of a trailer in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the Ford is available here on Facebook Marketplace for $3.000. This ’73 Mach 1 is said to be quite rusty and might make a better parts car than a restoration project. So that model year would be the last for the “first generation” which was replaced by the Mustang II subcompact in 1974 (which did deliver more customers). From a peak of 607,000 copies in 1966, the Mustang could only muster 135,000 units in 1973. As the Ford Mustang kept getting bigger and bigger in the 1960s and 1970s, its sales numbers got smaller and smaller.
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