When Porsche put its Panamera on the 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center, we thought it was pretty clever. Turns out Ford did the same with the Mustang, some 44 years earlier.
Unlike the Panamera lift which took place in a freight elevator with a complete automobile, Ford took apart their Mustang and shipped it in pieces, via a people elevator, to the observation deck of the Empire State Building, then reassembled it.
Ford Mustang X-1
Just looking at the pictures of the U.S. Air Force’s Ford Mustang X-1 and Dodge Challenger Vapor makes you realize that they must have found a very crazy tuning company to help them out on this project. Well, they did: Galpin Auto Sports, that is perhaps most famous for turning clunkers into cool cars on MTV’s “Pimp My Ride.” Well, consider these pony cars pimped.
The U.S. Air Force Mustang X-1 has a cockpit. Not in the way that a regular car’s driver’s seat and gauges is described as a cockpit, but like a jet fighter with an ejection seat. The engine pumps out 500 nitrous-fed horses and that power is put to the road through the biggest tires on the market today: 345/45R20s. They had to widen the stock Mustang by six inches on both sides in the rear in order to actually fit the tires.
Shelby and Ford recently celebrated their 40th anniversary – which of course means that they produced a limited edition car. What better way to celebrate than with a GT500KR that has the power to push out 540 horsepower. As always only a limited amount of these cars will be produced and released to the public. This time is different.
