November 24, 2025 • 30 mins
What makes the Ford Mustang a legendary icon in automotive and pop culture? Join us, as we take you on a captivating ride through its storied history in film, television, and beyond.
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Ever since the ripe old age of about three
years old, as far back as I can remember I
kind of had a love affair with the Ford
Mustang.
It kind of was because my dad owned one.
He had a rare Mustang not like one of those
really cool rare Mustangs, he just had a
rare Mustang only available for two years.
And as I got older not being a person who's
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in love with Ford in general, but a person
who's loving vehicles and all the ones you
can see around you I used to see Mustangs,
especially the five liter convertibles, and
think they were the coolest thing out there.
Growing up in the late eighties and early
nineties there was lots of them kicking
around.
But as I get older, I started asking myself
how many famous Mustangs are there out
there?
Like we all can think of at least one
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famous mustang and yeah, I get it, you're
probably thinking the exact same one of me
either bullet or gone in 60 seconds because
literally what are the ones are there?
But there's actually a lot of other great
mustangs used in all kinds of tv shows and
movies.
And today, while reminiscing about my old
mustang, we're going to take a look at some
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of the most famous mustangs in history,
whether it be tv manufacturers or even
movies, the ones that made us fall in love
with that valiant steed.
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So, like I said in the beginning, I was
kind of reminiscing about Mustangs, and the
one that actually was my dad's it's
eventually going to become mine and I said
it's a rare one.
But it's not a rare one that a lot of
people think about.
It's a 1970 Ford Mustang Grande.
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Yeah, that automatic premium style mustang
from 1969 and 1970.
They had two years of them and I got a 70.
You can find a lot of 69 versions but not a
lot of 70s out there now.
Now it was more of the premium model made
for luxurious grand touring, cruising Hell.
It came with an automatic, not a slapstick,
okay, but it did come with a 351 Cleveland
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jammed underneath the hood, now the number
one engine that DeTomaso loved for the
Panteras Hell.
He loved them so much he bought two years
worth of production just to keep the cars
in production.
So, yeah, myang is quite powerful and quite
cool, but it's also in quite a lot of
pieces right now, thanks to a previous
associate literally just doing a hack job
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and leaving the car in pieces for us to
finish up not completing his actual job
after he got a whole whack of money, but to
kind of get away from that.
My mustang is kind of a rarity because
nobody ever thinks the grande it was not
one of those models that a lot of people
really wanted.
You don't see it everywhere and it's not
really a collector's item but a lot of them
out there are collector's items and, thanks
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to being famous for movies, tv, well, even
some of us from podcasts now in radio
series, there's a whole bunch of them out
there and, like we said, the intro.
Two of them anybody could think of is gone
in 60 seconds, both the original and the
new one, with the original being a 71 Mach
1 and the newer one being a 67 GT350 that
was utilized to be the GT500, custom built,
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which is essentially copywritten.
And then the other one, the most famous
Mustang of all, the Bullitt Mustang.
Everybody knows it because everybody's seen
the movie Bullitt and if you haven't check
it out sometime it's kind of dry from back
in the day but it has a great car chase
scene.
Now I have seen other ones that are better
and a lot of people will fight me on that,
but I'm sorry.
There actually are better car chases than
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that one.
Now, the greatest thing with that one is
Steve McQueen was the stunt driver and he
utilized one vehicle, unlike today.
So it kind of makes it great.
But I still say the best car chase in any
automotive movie has got to be the original
Gone.
60 Seconds, 45 minutes.
Half of the entire movie is just a car
chase, with one vehicle ever used for that
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entire chase.
So it's, you know it's kind of cool.
But besides those ones, what other famous
Mustangs can you think of?
Well, James Bond, for instance, had a few.
Goldfinger had a 1964 Ford Mustang
convertible.
Now that's when he's trying to track down
Goldfinger and he notices the cute blonde
that's trying to chase down and shoot
Goldfinger.
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So he makes his personal mission to insert
himself into the situation.
But it's a convertible Mustang in Europe of
all places.
Then we move on to Diamonds Are Forever,
where again a Mustang Mach 1, 71 Mustang
Mach 1 is utilized.
That's one of the most famous car chase
scenes ever done in a James Bond movie,
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because he gets the car up on two wheels to
go through an alleyway so he can evade the
police.
It's kind of cool and hell.
The fact that they did it with an actual
vehicle makes it even cooler.
Now, like we said, the original one, gone
60 Seconds, used one car.
The new one with newer one with Nicolas
Cage, can say new came out in the late 90s,
new to me, but new to the Gone 60 Seconds
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franchise.
Eleanor, the, the Shelby Mustang.
Well, besides that, shelby Mustangs have
been utilized for a whole bunch of other
different movies and television shows.
Hell, when they tried to bring Knight Rider
back in the early 2000s, they utilized a
2008 Shelby GT 500K Mustang.
Hell, there's the Shelby GT Mustang GTH,
the Special Hertz Edition.
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The Mustang GT from Team Knight Rider, used
in the original series.
It was part of the team, not the main car.
Then you get the famous Shelby that lost
its brain, or I should say its heart.
The 67 Mustang from the Fast and Furious
Tokyo Drift.
Yeah, they put a Silvia engine underneath
the hood of this damn thing, a V6.
I get it.
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His dad didn't have the V8 to put inside of
this Mustang and he's utilizing an old GT
platform, but kind of just, you know,
kicking it in the nuts.
There was a 68 GT500 convertible from the
Get Smart series.
Then we got the new GT Hertz back in 2016,
2019, and in 2022.
Hertz Rentals had their own special edition
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of the Mustang.
Now.
They had them way back in the 60s, but 1966.
And the only way to ever get one is when
Hertz finally sold them off Now in 2006,
they decided to bring them back.
Funny thing is, around this point in time
2006, close to my wedding, and I could have
rented one, but stupid me never did.
It thing is around this point in time, 2006,
close to my wedding, and I could have
rented one, but stupid me never, never did.
It would have been the cooler thing to
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cruise around.
And then, my shitty ass, old Malibu.
There's James Garners 66 Shelby GT350H.
Of all things used from the movie Grand
Prix, the Thomas Crown Affair used a custom
built Shelby safari style Mustang,
literally lifted up to go off-road.
Wasn't used for a whole heck of a lot of
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the movie, but it was there.
War of the Worlds, the newer version with
Tom Cruise, Shelby GT350H.
Then you get the custom-built Shelby
utilized in the Need for Speed movie,
custom-built Now.
The GT500K was somewhat similar to where
this Mustang came from, but the one from
the Need for Speed movie used an extensive
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and I do mean extensive body modifications
to make it completely custom for the movie.
Then we get into I am legend, not a car
cult movie you would think of, but he does
cruise around New York city zombie or
whatever infested nation with the GT500.
So, yes, there's a lot of different Shelby
Mustangs.
My most favorite of all the Mustangs and
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one of the most I shouldn't say the most
famous, but one of the most notable ones
that children well, I would say more kids
in their their 20s now can relate to the
Transformer series.
They not only had a 2006, they also had a
2016, both of them used as police cars.
So, yes, mustangs were in transformers.
But how do you have a Transformer movie
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without having a Mustang in it?
We get it.
You tried to fit in the Camaro to take the
place of the original Beetle, which would
probably was kind of a shit thing to do,
like the Beetle is bigger and I don't
really fucking care that General Motors got
their fingers into Transformers and made
the bad vehicles fords and the good
vehicles general motors.
You still got to put a Beetle in there.
I don't, I really don't care.
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That's.
It's like replacing Herbie with a freaking
Camaro.
So yeah, over time there's been a lot of
Shelby Mustangs utilized in different
movies and television series.
But over time the Mustang has gotten famous
from other movie franchises.
Hell, if you remember the original David
Carradine's version with Sylvester Stallone
in it, the Death Race 2000.
Trust me, you can call it a car call movie,
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but I refuse to even buy it or watch it
again, because it's an hour and a half of
my life I will never, ever get back Ever.
It's the one movie I refuse to ever watch
again.
But the newer one with Jason Statham uses a
Mustang GT as his death car for
Frankenstein.
Now, I always thought this was the greatest
concept ever have this island out in the
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middle of nowhere.
Allow these people on Death Row to build
these incredible vehicles to go and fight
each other.
Give us some entertainment factor at the
end of the line.
And that's what the Death Race movie kind
of put forward and allowed for this.
It was like gladiator games with cool cars,
and the number one guy in the series was
Frankenstein, and Frankenstein drove a
Mustang GT.
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Oh yeah, nothing more badass than cruising
around in a Mustang killing people on an
island because you're a convict and if you
win so much he can escape.
Get out into the real world.
Yeah, we all knew that was never going to
happen.
But yeah, besides a lot of these Mustangs
and these amazing products that you've seen
in all kinds of movies, there are other
ones from television series that you forget
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about.
You go back and you watch the original 21
Jump Street, and, if you don't know, 21
Jump Street is where Johnny Depp got his
start in Hollywood.
He was in the original series and back then
he drove around in a 68 Ford Mustang
Fastback on TV the guy that would
eventually go on to become the only man in
history to ever win a fight with his wife.
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Yeah, and I got to put that out there,
sorry, no matter how many women listen to
this, they're going to hate me because of
saying that.
He just proved to men that we can win a
fight against our wives Well, ex-wives in
that case.
But besides that, how about Charlie's
Angels?
I even got the picture, if you can go see
it on my site Good old Farrah Fawcett
sitting on the hood of a Ford Mustang Cobra
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II.
Now we get it.
These things are built up that stupid Ford
Pinto platform.
So the Pinto Mustangs, the Mustang II, the
ones that we don't like to consider the
Mustang, but if it wasn't for them, the
Mustang would have disappeared, just like
the Camaro and the Challenger.
But seeing Farrah Fawcett sitting on top of
that Mustang just makes it seem a lot
cooler.
Oh yeah, yeah, I remember it's Farrah
Fawcett.
She was a major sex symbol to boys growing
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up in the 1970s.
Hell, I go back and I watch movies from the
90s.
I watched that movie with Jonathan Taylor
Thomas and Chevy Chase man in the House.
Farrah Fawcett plays his mom in that movie
and his dad leaves her for a secretary.
I'm like I want to see what the secretary
looks like, because Farrah Fawcett in the
90s.
Even for her age, it's like damn damn man.
She was still fucking hot, oh yeah.
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And now she's playing a mom even hotter.
So her sitting up on top of the hood of
this, this Mustang for Charlie's Angels the
series oh, I don't know what to look at.
Look at the car.
Look at Farrah Fawcett
If I had the car, can I have Farrah Fawcett?
If I have fair faucet, I definitely could
have the car makes you dream right.
So, like we said before, one of the
Shelby's used in the Night Rider made for
tv movie stupid thing.
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There's one that appears in an episode of
Blue Bloods.
Yeah, the most boring cop drama show to
ever exist since then.
Like NYPD Blue, my in-laws love it and I
fucking hate it.
So do my kids.
But hey, they got a 67 Ford Mustang
fastback that shows up in the show a couple
times.
65 Ford Mustang convertible 90210.
Oh yeah, then from there, like I said, we
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get, Get Smart.
There's another tv series that had one.
Then you had the show Alcatraz Ford Mustang
2012.
So, in all, reality television has given us
many different Mustangs to kind of dream
over.
Now we get it.
You know, Camaros and Firebirds make a
bigger part of television.
General Motors is a little bit more part of
television than they are of the movie scene
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Well, not to say they're not part of the
movie scene, but Mustangs play a bigger
role in movies like Basic Instinct.
You can catch one in Back to the Future.
Guardians of the Galaxy, Part 2.
There's a 78 Mustang II King Cobra.
Yeah, that's my boy.
Princess Diaries now this is one of those
weird ones that I found not too long ago
and I'm going through this list of movies
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and I'm like Princess Diaries, what the
hell?
So I write it down, I find it and I'm like,
okay, yeah, whatever.
Not that long ago I was actually watching
this movie.
My wife actually watch a movie that she
wants to watch and kind of get my daughter
into some of these, you know, girly movies,
because she's more of a daddy's girl.
So let's try and get a little more girly
movies in there.
So we watch Princess Diaries and I'm always
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like where is the Mustang and Princess
Diaries?
And I don't realize it's her car.
She is building this car.
Anne Hathaway's character in Princess
Diaries, the dorky girl that becomes a
princess, has a Mustang and at the end of
the movie, when she moves to her home
country to take her royal throne, she
brings her Mustang with her, naturally,
because who would leave the Mustang behind?
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I can hear a bunch of you dedicated General
Motors fans yelling at the mic right now
going I, not a camaro, who the fuck cares?
Okay, we're talking about mustangs here.
I love a Camaro too, but I've had a choice,
kind of like my dad did back in the 70s,
between the 69 camaro ss convertible or
when my dad had a 70 Mustang with a 351
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Cleveland.
It's hard, it's a hard decision.
Now.
The Grande is rare but the Camaro is easier
to get parts for the Camaro.
Women love convertibles and the Mustang
they don't.
I don't know.
It's kind of a hard decision.
My dad had an easier time dealing with this.
He couldn't afford to get the Camaro so he
basically had his Mustang and with that his
love affair for his Mustang came out Now,
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one of the biggest love affairs with
Mustangs.
You can hear about them in all kinds of
different music videos and songs throughout
history.
But the main one that comes to mind was
also utilized in a movie Adam Sandler's
movie.
That's My Boy.
Adam Sandler's character in that movie, you
know, knocks up his teacher because she was
smoking hot.
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Sorry, I can't deny that at the beginning
of it she liked him.
They have a baby and he became good friends
with Vanilla Ice because you've got to
remember it's in the 80s but Vanilla Ice is
big, so yeah, he became friends with them.
Vanilla Ice loves his 5.0.
Now we've heard lots of people reference
that in song.
But Vanilla Ice, considering the fact that
he's basically a one-hit wonder with Ice
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Ice Baby, you're jumping in his 5.0.
Everybody automatically picks that.
It's kind of like you know Me and Little Renzo
rolling my benzo from NWA or Sir Mix A Lot,
how he loves his Mercedes or even Janice
Joplin and her Mercedes.
But Vanilla Ice is a singer and song Ice
Ice Baby, which you automatically think
Ford Mustang and he barely even says
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Mustang in it.
He just isn't going to jump on my 5.0.
But we all know a five liter is a ford
Mustang GT.
Five liter, V8 that's how big the mustang
nameplate is.
It becomes so famous that you don't even
have to say its name.
You could call out its motor.
If I literally call out and say 351
Cleveland to somebody, even if it's like
their last name's Cleveland, like the
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Cleveland show family guy, I'm sorry, last
name, that's his first name and you can be
order number 351.
351 for Cleveland.
351 for Cleveland Back of your head, you're
just going.
351 Cleveland, it was better than the 351
Windsor.
You know, being canadian, you think I like
the Windsor a lot more than the Cleveland.
But no, I got to go all American on this bad
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boy.
351 cleveland comes to mind first, just
like the 5.0 from Vanilla Ice yeah, the same
5.0 that you would have found in the movie
Basic Instinct.
So the 50s back then were big, but it was
only the convertible ones that people were
after.
The coupes not as much, even though they're
just as cool.
It's the one point in time besides, when
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the original Mustang came out, that people
wanted the convertible more than they
wanted the hardtop.
Even today, more people buy the hardtop
than convertibles and what that like.
How big is the Mustang?
How many things have we gone through right
now?
Well, there's one big movie, not the last
movie I'm going to talk about.
I got one more one after this but another
one that actually has not a Mustang in it,
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but it's one of the most famous badass cars
in history and it's built off the Mustang
platform.
The Ford Falcon is essentially what gave
birth to the Mustang in North America, but
on the other side of the world.
In Australia, the Ford Falcon utilized the
Mustang platform, which makes the Ford
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Falcon from the Mad Max series a contender
for famous Mustangs.
I get it, it could be a famous Ford, but
it's a famous Mustang, considering the fact
that there's both a Ford Falcon Big top
copper, the four-door one from the very
first movie and then the badass one from
the second or third movie.
Those Falcons kick it.
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We love it, and when you think of the
Falcon you think Mustang, we get it.
The Mustang wasn't there.
Today the Mustang is in Australia, but
that's because Ford of Australia no longer
exists, just like Holden no longer exists.
The automotive industry there is completely
gone.
So they get the Mustangs now.
But the Mustang always was a Ford Falcon
and the Falcons in Australia always were a
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Mustang.
They utilized the same engine 351 Cleveland,
351 Cleveland.
They were badass, top of the line, balls,
deep, muscle cars.
And they bring the Mustang nameplate and
the Mustang power to the other side of the
world.
But with that, one of the most badass
Mustangs of all time appears in the first
movie in an amazing chase scene that makes
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me cringe and cry at the same time.
At the beginning of the second movie.
Oh yeah, I'm talking about the 69 Mustang
from John Wick.
Oh yeah, the 69 Mustang Mach 1 from John
Wick.
John Wick is the ultimate badass.
He's the boogeyman.
He scares even the most hardened criminals.
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They find out that John Wick is coming for
them and when they steal his car in the
first one and bring him back into John Wick
territory, you just know things are going
to go down.
Unfortunately, the car gets beat to shit at
the beginning of the second movie and I cry
every time I see it.
I have trouble watching it.
It's just like when the 69 Charger hits the
train at the end of Fast and Furious.
Yeah, I almost got kicked out of the movie
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for that back in the day.
But that Mustang, we love it.
And being so close in age to my Mustang,
when I see it and hear it up there, I'm
like that's just like mine.
I can relive my childhood.
I can hear the roar of that engine.
Once again, one of the greatest movies of
all time.
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John Wick yeah, John Wick brings it.
But it's not just movies, tv shows and
music that makes the Mustang famous.
It's not just movies, tv shows and music
that makes the Mustang famous, it's also
the electric car industry and coach build
industries.
Equus, from the United States, has what
they call the Base 770, which uses a
Mustang platform to build a custom coach
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build version of a new variation of a 67-68
Ford Mustang.
It's really cool.
Go check it out on AutoLooks.net.
Look at the podcast Famous Mustangs and
you'll find it there 2014.
It's EQUUS E-Q-U-U-S Equis Base 770.
They gave more life.
Now they also give life to Corvettes as
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well with their second iteration.
But to go along with that, there's also, as
I like to call it, the electric car
industry, and this company just died out
but came back.
They're actually the company that's going
to be bringing back TVR.
Cross your fingers, let's hope it's true
Charge cars.
They even got the rights from Ford to
utilize the original 67 Mustang's profile
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and build so that their charge electric
mustang, which is even called the electric
mustang, can go into production to keep the
mustang going into the future a past
favorite into the future.
That's how powerful the Mustang nameplate
is.
It's so famous that the EV industry wants
to utilize it to build industries off of it.
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Now we get a lot of the EV industry wants
to utilize it to build industries off of it.
Now we get a lot of the EV industry has
been built off the Lotus Elise platform,
with Tesla, EV Electra, Detroit Electric,
just to name a few.
All had their original products built off
the Lotus Esprit platform.
Hell, John Hennessey's fast cars built off of
the original Esprit platform.
Yeah, the Hennessy Venom.
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You ever put two and two together.
When you look at the original designs of it
it's like, yeah, lotus engineering, but
Charge built an electric Mustang.
This thing is amazing.
I love my Mustang, but if I had to go back
and forth to work every single day and can
afford something really cool to drive, I
would use one of these Charge cars,
electric Mustangs.
I'd plug it in, drive back and forth to
work If I got to stop and get something
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quick.
I have an amazing vehicle to do with it.
It's cool, it's luxurious, it's futuristic,
while still holding on to the famous past
from the nut mustang nameplate I was about
to say nesting plate mustang nameplate but
out of all of these, nothing compares to
the most powerful mustang in history.
And we get it.
We've already talked about the bullet
mustang and the gone in 60 seconds mustang,
but one of the most famous mustangs in
history and the most famous mustang from
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the 21st century goes to one of our
favorite drivers of all time.
Now, he never took up the WRC when they
called him out and said put your money
where your mouth is.
I want to see it in real rally race, not a
rallycross race.
Get over here and show us how it's really
done.
He never took them up on that, but he's
still a badass who got into racing around
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my age now late 30s, early 40s after
creating dc shoes.
Yeah, you know who I'm talking about.
Now.
Ken block and uh, give a shout out to his
daughter.
Lia block, you're great.
I love watching you in the F1 Academy and I
was at Montreal this year and the corner
you crashed on was literally right in front
of me.
I didn't know it was you.
I was watching the cars and I saw the
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accident.
I was still paying attention to the race
and my son's, like you know that was Lia
Block.
I'm like what, oh man?
I would have loved to go down there and get
your autograph.
I'm like I want an autograph from Lia Block.
Your dad was the coolest and you're doing
what your dad wanted to do.
You're carrying on the Block name, but she
also took his famous Mustang for a ride.
We get it.
He's had lots of amazing vehicles that he
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utilized for all of his Gymkhanna videos.
A lot of them were the Ford products yes,
the Escape.
Then he gets in the old F-150s.
Later on he gets to the Volkswagen side
with this Porsche and his Audi of his last
movie.
But it was a famous one and one that people
utilized on the most famous game, which
also utilizes mustang designs in it Grand
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Theft Auto.
They paid homage to Ken Block when he died
and somebody created the Ken Block
Hoonicorn in Grand Theft Auto and did an
honor towards him.
It was the greatest honor I ever saw.
And you know, Lia if you're listening, I
don't know if you got a little teary eyed
over it, but doing some amazing stuff on a
video game like Grand Theft Auto with a
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vehicle that looks like the Hoonicorn and
doing the same things, it's the greatest
honor.
Even to this day we we all miss them and we
get it.
You know they're trying to bring it back
with Travis Pastrana and his Subarus, but
you know, no, it was ken block's thing.
Ken block was Gymkhanna and I remember
watching the very first one.
It was my first full-time job outside of
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college.
I worked for this.
This little door company did mining doors
and overhead doors and my boss sent me the
clip.
He's like you got to watch this, I don't
care if you're gonna do it on work time,
you got to watch this video.
And I'd heard about this really cool video
for cars.
But you know, I popped up my feed the
morning and I'm like, yeah, I'll get to it
later.
So I'm like, okay, whatever, I watched it
and I was blown away by what Ken Block did.
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It wasn't a Mustang.
At that time.
The Mustang wasn't used until he did the
Los Angeles one.
This Mustang did drifting between two 6.4
Impalas on Hydros.
It was cool, I loved it and it just
cemented the Mustang as one of the most
famous cars in history.
The only other two vehicles in history that
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are more famous than the Mustang is the
Willys Jeep and the Volkswagen Beetle.
Beetle holds it strong because of how long
it was in production and how many people's
lives were influenced by it and the Jeep.
It helped influence so many different
companies and so many different products.
Go back and listen to a podcast called Jeep
World and you can find out how much Jeep
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influenced the 4x4 world around the globe,
all because of their military expansion
during World War II.
Go back and listen to it.
It's a pretty good episode from a few years
back.
So really, there's a lot of famous Mustangs
out there and you got to go out and you got
to find them.
You got to see them.
There's tons of special editions.
Go out, you got to find them, you got to see
them.
We get it.
There's tons of special editions.
There's tons of, you know, great looking
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products but in all reality you got to have
them.
The mustang is here.
The mustang is amazing.
The mustang is great, no matter how much I
refuse to buy a ford product for my
everyday life just because I know of a
quality and all that, even to this day.
If somebody handed me the keys to a mustang,
like you just won this Mustang it's one of
the few cars I would actually take the keys
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instead of asking for the cash equivalent.
We got this thing in town.
It's like a $20 house hard for hearing
thing.
If you win it, you get to keep the car A
nice new Hyundai, you know, sponsored by a
Hyundai dealership in town.
I'm not fucking keeping the Hyundai Screw
that.
Give me the cash equivalent.
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I want the crappy car.
I want the Mustang and the greatest thing
about it is for the longest time in the
country of Canada.
Our most famous giveaway Roll Up the Rim
from Tim Hortons gave away Mustangs and
even though they had switched to Volkswagen
by the 50th anniversary, I thought they
were going to do it in 2014.
I thought they were going to, for one year,
bring back the Ford Mustang as their
giveaway, because the Mustang was born the
same year as Canada's number one fast food
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franchise, Tim Hortons, in 1964.
All from a dream of Lee Iacocca, a man who
saw something great and literally took the
Ford Falcon, chopped it up and turned it
into the Mustang the last minute and
managed to just get it past the board and
into production.
It's a car that was never supposed to exist.
Yeah, go back and check its history.
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The Mustang had a lot of great ideas back
in the past.
Hell, as I'm talking to you right now, on a
shelf above me, I had the original Ford
Mustang concept car in Hot Wheels form.
I also saw it at Cobble Beach, just outside
of Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada's premier
kind of like Pebble Beach, the Concourse
d'Elegance.
I actually saw one of the original ones
there, next to GM's Firebird 1, 2, and 3.
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That was way cooler, but seeing it and
showing my kids.
That's where the Mustang originally was.
At the last minute, lee Iacocca realized
they were going to pull the pin on the
polar jack.
He flipped it over to the Ford Falcon
platform, turned it into a two-door car
with a big block, V8, and bam created one
of the most famous icons in automotive
history the mustang.
Yeah, to this day there's a lot of famous
mustangs out there.
My mustang might not be super rare, it may
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not be super famous and it may not be a
true blood ford guy, but in all reality, I
still love a great mustang and so do a lot
of other people and so do a lot of other
shows.
The mustang's always out there and we
always know it as the dominating force in
the muscle car, pony car era.
It's essentially the last surviving pony
car today, since the Camaro and Challenger
are gone once again.
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And as for muscle cars, until they put a v8
and back in the Charger, there ain't
nothing else except for a mustang.
So in all reality, we got a lot of famous
Mustangs out there.
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Ever since the ripe old age of about three
years old, as far back as I can remember I
kind of had a love affair with the Ford
Mustang.
It kind of was because my dad owned one.
He had a rare Mustang not like one of those
really cool rare Mustangs, he just had a
rare Mustang only available for two years.
And as I got older not being a person who's
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in love with Ford in general, but a person
who's loving vehicles and all the ones you
can see around you I used to see Mustangs,
especially the five liter convertibles, and
think they were the coolest thing out there.
Growing up in the late eighties and early
nineties there was lots of them kicking
around.
But as I get older, I started asking myself
how many famous Mustangs are there out
there?
Like we all can think of at least one
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famous mustang and yeah, I get it, you're
probably thinking the exact same one of me
either bullet or gone in 60 seconds because
literally what are the ones are there?
But there's actually a lot of other great
mustangs used in all kinds of tv shows and
movies.
And today, while reminiscing about my old
mustang, we're going to take a look at some
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of the most famous mustangs in history,
whether it be tv manufacturers or even
movies, the ones that made us fall in love
with that valiant steed.
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So, like I said in the beginning, I was
kind of reminiscing about Mustangs, and the
one that actually was my dad's it's
eventually going to become mine and I said
it's a rare one.
But it's not a rare one that a lot of
people think about.
It's a 1970 Ford Mustang Grande.
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Yeah, that automatic premium style mustang
from 1969 and 1970.
They had two years of them and I got a 70.
You can find a lot of 69 versions but not a
lot of 70s out there now.
Now it was more of the premium model made
for luxurious grand touring, cruising Hell.
It came with an automatic, not a slapstick,
okay, but it did come with a 351 Cleveland
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jammed underneath the hood, now the number
one engine that DeTomaso loved for the
Panteras Hell.
He loved them so much he bought two years
worth of production just to keep the cars
in production.
So, yeah, myang is quite powerful and quite
cool, but it's also in quite a lot of
pieces right now, thanks to a previous
associate literally just doing a hack job
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and leaving the car in pieces for us to
finish up not completing his actual job
after he got a whole whack of money, but to
kind of get away from that.
My mustang is kind of a rarity because
nobody ever thinks the grande it was not
one of those models that a lot of people
really wanted.
You don't see it everywhere and it's not
really a collector's item but a lot of them
out there are collector's items and, thanks
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to being famous for movies, tv, well, even
some of us from podcasts now in radio
series, there's a whole bunch of them out
there and, like we said, the intro.
Two of them anybody could think of is gone
in 60 seconds, both the original and the
new one, with the original being a 71 Mach
1 and the newer one being a 67 GT350 that
was utilized to be the GT500, custom built,
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which is essentially copywritten.
And then the other one, the most famous
Mustang of all, the Bullitt Mustang.
Everybody knows it because everybody's seen
the movie Bullitt and if you haven't check
it out sometime it's kind of dry from back
in the day but it has a great car chase
scene.
Now I have seen other ones that are better
and a lot of people will fight me on that,
but I'm sorry.
There actually are better car chases than
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that one.
Now, the greatest thing with that one is
Steve McQueen was the stunt driver and he
utilized one vehicle, unlike today.
So it kind of makes it great.
But I still say the best car chase in any
automotive movie has got to be the original
Gone.
60 Seconds, 45 minutes.
Half of the entire movie is just a car
chase, with one vehicle ever used for that
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entire chase.
So it's, you know it's kind of cool.
But besides those ones, what other famous
Mustangs can you think of?
Well, James Bond, for instance, had a few.
Goldfinger had a 1964 Ford Mustang
convertible.
Now that's when he's trying to track down
Goldfinger and he notices the cute blonde
that's trying to chase down and shoot
Goldfinger.
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So he makes his personal mission to insert
himself into the situation.
But it's a convertible Mustang in Europe of
all places.
Then we move on to Diamonds Are Forever,
where again a Mustang Mach 1, 71 Mustang
Mach 1 is utilized.
That's one of the most famous car chase
scenes ever done in a James Bond movie,
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because he gets the car up on two wheels to
go through an alleyway so he can evade the
police.
It's kind of cool and hell.
The fact that they did it with an actual
vehicle makes it even cooler.
Now, like we said, the original one, gone
60 Seconds, used one car.
The new one with newer one with Nicolas
Cage, can say new came out in the late 90s,
new to me, but new to the Gone 60 Seconds
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franchise.
Eleanor, the, the Shelby Mustang.
Well, besides that, shelby Mustangs have
been utilized for a whole bunch of other
different movies and television shows.
Hell, when they tried to bring Knight Rider
back in the early 2000s, they utilized a
2008 Shelby GT 500K Mustang.
Hell, there's the Shelby GT Mustang GTH,
the Special Hertz Edition.
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The Mustang GT from Team Knight Rider, used
in the original series.
It was part of the team, not the main car.
Then you get the famous Shelby that lost
its brain, or I should say its heart.
The 67 Mustang from the Fast and Furious
Tokyo Drift.
Yeah, they put a Silvia engine underneath
the hood of this damn thing, a V6.
I get it.
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His dad didn't have the V8 to put inside of
this Mustang and he's utilizing an old GT
platform, but kind of just, you know,
kicking it in the nuts.
There was a 68 GT500 convertible from the
Get Smart series.
Then we got the new GT Hertz back in 2016,
2019, and in 2022.
Hertz Rentals had their own special edition
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of the Mustang.
Now.
They had them way back in the 60s, but 1966.
And the only way to ever get one is when
Hertz finally sold them off Now in 2006,
they decided to bring them back.
Funny thing is, around this point in time
2006, close to my wedding, and I could have
rented one, but stupid me never did.
It thing is around this point in time, 2006,
close to my wedding, and I could have
rented one, but stupid me never, never did.
It would have been the cooler thing to
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cruise around.
And then, my shitty ass, old Malibu.
There's James Garners 66 Shelby GT350H.
Of all things used from the movie Grand
Prix, the Thomas Crown Affair used a custom
built Shelby safari style Mustang,
literally lifted up to go off-road.
Wasn't used for a whole heck of a lot of
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the movie, but it was there.
War of the Worlds, the newer version with
Tom Cruise, Shelby GT350H.
Then you get the custom-built Shelby
utilized in the Need for Speed movie,
custom-built Now.
The GT500K was somewhat similar to where
this Mustang came from, but the one from
the Need for Speed movie used an extensive
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and I do mean extensive body modifications
to make it completely custom for the movie.
Then we get into I am legend, not a car
cult movie you would think of, but he does
cruise around New York city zombie or
whatever infested nation with the GT500.
So, yes, there's a lot of different Shelby
Mustangs.
My most favorite of all the Mustangs and
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one of the most I shouldn't say the most
famous, but one of the most notable ones
that children well, I would say more kids
in their their 20s now can relate to the
Transformer series.
They not only had a 2006, they also had a
2016, both of them used as police cars.
So, yes, mustangs were in transformers.
But how do you have a Transformer movie
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without having a Mustang in it?
We get it.
You tried to fit in the Camaro to take the
place of the original Beetle, which would
probably was kind of a shit thing to do,
like the Beetle is bigger and I don't
really fucking care that General Motors got
their fingers into Transformers and made
the bad vehicles fords and the good
vehicles general motors.
You still got to put a Beetle in there.
I don't, I really don't care.
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That's.
It's like replacing Herbie with a freaking
Camaro.
So yeah, over time there's been a lot of
Shelby Mustangs utilized in different
movies and television series.
But over time the Mustang has gotten famous
from other movie franchises.
Hell, if you remember the original David
Carradine's version with Sylvester Stallone
in it, the Death Race 2000.
Trust me, you can call it a car call movie,
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but I refuse to even buy it or watch it
again, because it's an hour and a half of
my life I will never, ever get back Ever.
It's the one movie I refuse to ever watch
again.
But the newer one with Jason Statham uses a
Mustang GT as his death car for
Frankenstein.
Now, I always thought this was the greatest
concept ever have this island out in the
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middle of nowhere.
Allow these people on Death Row to build
these incredible vehicles to go and fight
each other.
Give us some entertainment factor at the
end of the line.
And that's what the Death Race movie kind
of put forward and allowed for this.
It was like gladiator games with cool cars,
and the number one guy in the series was
Frankenstein, and Frankenstein drove a
Mustang GT.
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Oh yeah, nothing more badass than cruising
around in a Mustang killing people on an
island because you're a convict and if you
win so much he can escape.
Get out into the real world.
Yeah, we all knew that was never going to
happen.
But yeah, besides a lot of these Mustangs
and these amazing products that you've seen
in all kinds of movies, there are other
ones from television series that you forget
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about.
You go back and you watch the original 21
Jump Street, and, if you don't know, 21
Jump Street is where Johnny Depp got his
start in Hollywood.
He was in the original series and back then
he drove around in a 68 Ford Mustang
Fastback on TV the guy that would
eventually go on to become the only man in
history to ever win a fight with his wife.
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Yeah, and I got to put that out there,
sorry, no matter how many women listen to
this, they're going to hate me because of
saying that.
He just proved to men that we can win a
fight against our wives Well, ex-wives in
that case.
But besides that, how about Charlie's
Angels?
I even got the picture, if you can go see
it on my site Good old Farrah Fawcett
sitting on the hood of a Ford Mustang Cobra
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II.
Now we get it.
These things are built up that stupid Ford
Pinto platform.
So the Pinto Mustangs, the Mustang II, the
ones that we don't like to consider the
Mustang, but if it wasn't for them, the
Mustang would have disappeared, just like
the Camaro and the Challenger.
But seeing Farrah Fawcett sitting on top of
that Mustang just makes it seem a lot
cooler.
Oh yeah, yeah, I remember it's Farrah
Fawcett.
She was a major sex symbol to boys growing
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up in the 1970s.
Hell, I go back and I watch movies from the
90s.
I watched that movie with Jonathan Taylor
Thomas and Chevy Chase man in the House.
Farrah Fawcett plays his mom in that movie
and his dad leaves her for a secretary.
I'm like I want to see what the secretary
looks like, because Farrah Fawcett in the
90s.
Even for her age, it's like damn damn man.
She was still fucking hot, oh yeah.
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And now she's playing a mom even hotter.
So her sitting up on top of the hood of
this, this Mustang for Charlie's Angels the
series oh, I don't know what to look at.
Look at the car.
Look at Farrah Fawcett
If I had the car, can I have Farrah Fawcett?
If I have fair faucet, I definitely could
have the car makes you dream right.
So, like we said before, one of the
Shelby's used in the Night Rider made for
tv movie stupid thing.
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There's one that appears in an episode of
Blue Bloods.
Yeah, the most boring cop drama show to
ever exist since then.
Like NYPD Blue, my in-laws love it and I
fucking hate it.
So do my kids.
But hey, they got a 67 Ford Mustang
fastback that shows up in the show a couple
times.
65 Ford Mustang convertible 90210.
Oh yeah, then from there, like I said, we
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get, Get Smart.
There's another tv series that had one.
Then you had the show Alcatraz Ford Mustang
2012.
So, in all, reality television has given us
many different Mustangs to kind of dream
over.
Now we get it.
You know, Camaros and Firebirds make a
bigger part of television.
General Motors is a little bit more part of
television than they are of the movie scene
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Well, not to say they're not part of the
movie scene, but Mustangs play a bigger
role in movies like Basic Instinct.
You can catch one in Back to the Future.
Guardians of the Galaxy, Part 2.
There's a 78 Mustang II King Cobra.
Yeah, that's my boy.
Princess Diaries now this is one of those
weird ones that I found not too long ago
and I'm going through this list of movies
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and I'm like Princess Diaries, what the
hell?
So I write it down, I find it and I'm like,
okay, yeah, whatever.
Not that long ago I was actually watching
this movie.
My wife actually watch a movie that she
wants to watch and kind of get my daughter
into some of these, you know, girly movies,
because she's more of a daddy's girl.
So let's try and get a little more girly
movies in there.
So we watch Princess Diaries and I'm always
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like where is the Mustang and Princess
Diaries?
And I don't realize it's her car.
She is building this car.
Anne Hathaway's character in Princess
Diaries, the dorky girl that becomes a
princess, has a Mustang and at the end of
the movie, when she moves to her home
country to take her royal throne, she
brings her Mustang with her, naturally,
because who would leave the Mustang behind?
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I can hear a bunch of you dedicated General
Motors fans yelling at the mic right now
going I, not a camaro, who the fuck cares?
Okay, we're talking about mustangs here.
I love a Camaro too, but I've had a choice,
kind of like my dad did back in the 70s,
between the 69 camaro ss convertible or
when my dad had a 70 Mustang with a 351
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Cleveland.
It's hard, it's a hard decision.
Now.
The Grande is rare but the Camaro is easier
to get parts for the Camaro.
Women love convertibles and the Mustang
they don't.
I don't know.
It's kind of a hard decision.
My dad had an easier time dealing with this.
He couldn't afford to get the Camaro so he
basically had his Mustang and with that his
love affair for his Mustang came out Now,
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one of the biggest love affairs with
Mustangs.
You can hear about them in all kinds of
different music videos and songs throughout
history.
But the main one that comes to mind was
also utilized in a movie Adam Sandler's
movie.
That's My Boy.
Adam Sandler's character in that movie, you
know, knocks up his teacher because she was
smoking hot.
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Sorry, I can't deny that at the beginning
of it she liked him.
They have a baby and he became good friends
with Vanilla Ice because you've got to
remember it's in the 80s but Vanilla Ice is
big, so yeah, he became friends with them.
Vanilla Ice loves his 5.0.
Now we've heard lots of people reference
that in song.
But Vanilla Ice, considering the fact that
he's basically a one-hit wonder with Ice
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Ice Baby, you're jumping in his 5.0.
Everybody automatically picks that.
It's kind of like you know Me and Little Renzo
rolling my benzo from NWA or Sir Mix A Lot,
how he loves his Mercedes or even Janice
Joplin and her Mercedes.
But Vanilla Ice is a singer and song Ice
Ice Baby, which you automatically think
Ford Mustang and he barely even says
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Mustang in it.
He just isn't going to jump on my 5.0.
But we all know a five liter is a ford
Mustang GT.
Five liter, V8 that's how big the mustang
nameplate is.
It becomes so famous that you don't even
have to say its name.
You could call out its motor.
If I literally call out and say 351
Cleveland to somebody, even if it's like
their last name's Cleveland, like the
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Cleveland show family guy, I'm sorry, last
name, that's his first name and you can be
order number 351.
351 for Cleveland.
351 for Cleveland Back of your head, you're
just going.
351 Cleveland, it was better than the 351
Windsor.
You know, being canadian, you think I like
the Windsor a lot more than the Cleveland.
But no, I got to go all American on this bad
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boy.
351 cleveland comes to mind first, just
like the 5.0 from Vanilla Ice yeah, the same
5.0 that you would have found in the movie
Basic Instinct.
So the 50s back then were big, but it was
only the convertible ones that people were
after.
The coupes not as much, even though they're
just as cool.
It's the one point in time besides, when
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the original Mustang came out, that people
wanted the convertible more than they
wanted the hardtop.
Even today, more people buy the hardtop
than convertibles and what that like.
How big is the Mustang?
How many things have we gone through right
now?
Well, there's one big movie, not the last
movie I'm going to talk about.
I got one more one after this but another
one that actually has not a Mustang in it,
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but it's one of the most famous badass cars
in history and it's built off the Mustang
platform.
The Ford Falcon is essentially what gave
birth to the Mustang in North America, but
on the other side of the world.
In Australia, the Ford Falcon utilized the
Mustang platform, which makes the Ford
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Falcon from the Mad Max series a contender
for famous Mustangs.
I get it, it could be a famous Ford, but
it's a famous Mustang, considering the fact
that there's both a Ford Falcon Big top
copper, the four-door one from the very
first movie and then the badass one from
the second or third movie.
Those Falcons kick it.
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We love it, and when you think of the
Falcon you think Mustang, we get it.
The Mustang wasn't there.
Today the Mustang is in Australia, but
that's because Ford of Australia no longer
exists, just like Holden no longer exists.
The automotive industry there is completely
gone.
So they get the Mustangs now.
But the Mustang always was a Ford Falcon
and the Falcons in Australia always were a
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Mustang.
They utilized the same engine 351 Cleveland,
351 Cleveland.
They were badass, top of the line, balls,
deep, muscle cars.
And they bring the Mustang nameplate and
the Mustang power to the other side of the
world.
But with that, one of the most badass
Mustangs of all time appears in the first
movie in an amazing chase scene that makes
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me cringe and cry at the same time.
At the beginning of the second movie.
Oh yeah, I'm talking about the 69 Mustang
from John Wick.
Oh yeah, the 69 Mustang Mach 1 from John
Wick.
John Wick is the ultimate badass.
He's the boogeyman.
He scares even the most hardened criminals.
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They find out that John Wick is coming for
them and when they steal his car in the
first one and bring him back into John Wick
territory, you just know things are going
to go down.
Unfortunately, the car gets beat to shit at
the beginning of the second movie and I cry
every time I see it.
I have trouble watching it.
It's just like when the 69 Charger hits the
train at the end of Fast and Furious.
Yeah, I almost got kicked out of the movie
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for that back in the day.
But that Mustang, we love it.
And being so close in age to my Mustang,
when I see it and hear it up there, I'm
like that's just like mine.
I can relive my childhood.
I can hear the roar of that engine.
Once again, one of the greatest movies of
all time.
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John Wick yeah, John Wick brings it.
But it's not just movies, tv shows and
music that makes the Mustang famous.
It's not just movies, tv shows and music
that makes the Mustang famous, it's also
the electric car industry and coach build
industries.
Equus, from the United States, has what
they call the Base 770, which uses a
Mustang platform to build a custom coach
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build version of a new variation of a 67-68
Ford Mustang.
It's really cool.
Go check it out on AutoLooks.net.
Look at the podcast Famous Mustangs and
you'll find it there 2014.
It's EQUUS E-Q-U-U-S Equis Base 770.
They gave more life.
Now they also give life to Corvettes as
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well with their second iteration.
But to go along with that, there's also, as
I like to call it, the electric car
industry, and this company just died out
but came back.
They're actually the company that's going
to be bringing back TVR.
Cross your fingers, let's hope it's true
Charge cars.
They even got the rights from Ford to
utilize the original 67 Mustang's profile
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and build so that their charge electric
mustang, which is even called the electric
mustang, can go into production to keep the
mustang going into the future a past
favorite into the future.
That's how powerful the Mustang nameplate
is.
It's so famous that the EV industry wants
to utilize it to build industries off of it.
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Now we get a lot of the EV industry wants
to utilize it to build industries off of it.
Now we get a lot of the EV industry has
been built off the Lotus Elise platform,
with Tesla, EV Electra, Detroit Electric,
just to name a few.
All had their original products built off
the Lotus Esprit platform.
Hell, John Hennessey's fast cars built off of
the original Esprit platform.
Yeah, the Hennessy Venom.
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You ever put two and two together.
When you look at the original designs of it
it's like, yeah, lotus engineering, but
Charge built an electric Mustang.
This thing is amazing.
I love my Mustang, but if I had to go back
and forth to work every single day and can
afford something really cool to drive, I
would use one of these Charge cars,
electric Mustangs.
I'd plug it in, drive back and forth to
work If I got to stop and get something
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quick.
I have an amazing vehicle to do with it.
It's cool, it's luxurious, it's futuristic,
while still holding on to the famous past
from the nut mustang nameplate I was about
to say nesting plate mustang nameplate but
out of all of these, nothing compares to
the most powerful mustang in history.
And we get it.
We've already talked about the bullet
mustang and the gone in 60 seconds mustang,
but one of the most famous mustangs in
history and the most famous mustang from
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the 21st century goes to one of our
favorite drivers of all time.
Now, he never took up the WRC when they
called him out and said put your money
where your mouth is.
I want to see it in real rally race, not a
rallycross race.
Get over here and show us how it's really
done.
He never took them up on that, but he's
still a badass who got into racing around
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my age now late 30s, early 40s after
creating dc shoes.
Yeah, you know who I'm talking about.
Now.
Ken block and uh, give a shout out to his
daughter.
Lia block, you're great.
I love watching you in the F1 Academy and I
was at Montreal this year and the corner
you crashed on was literally right in front
of me.
I didn't know it was you.
I was watching the cars and I saw the
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accident.
I was still paying attention to the race
and my son's, like you know that was Lia
Block.
I'm like what, oh man?
I would have loved to go down there and get
your autograph.
I'm like I want an autograph from Lia Block.
Your dad was the coolest and you're doing
what your dad wanted to do.
You're carrying on the Block name, but she
also took his famous Mustang for a ride.
We get it.
He's had lots of amazing vehicles that he
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utilized for all of his Gymkhanna videos.
A lot of them were the Ford products yes,
the Escape.
Then he gets in the old F-150s.
Later on he gets to the Volkswagen side
with this Porsche and his Audi of his last
movie.
But it was a famous one and one that people
utilized on the most famous game, which
also utilizes mustang designs in it Grand
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Theft Auto.
They paid homage to Ken Block when he died
and somebody created the Ken Block
Hoonicorn in Grand Theft Auto and did an
honor towards him.
It was the greatest honor I ever saw.
And you know, Lia if you're listening, I
don't know if you got a little teary eyed
over it, but doing some amazing stuff on a
video game like Grand Theft Auto with a
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vehicle that looks like the Hoonicorn and
doing the same things, it's the greatest
honor.
Even to this day we we all miss them and we
get it.
You know they're trying to bring it back
with Travis Pastrana and his Subarus, but
you know, no, it was ken block's thing.
Ken block was Gymkhanna and I remember
watching the very first one.
It was my first full-time job outside of
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college.
I worked for this.
This little door company did mining doors
and overhead doors and my boss sent me the
clip.
He's like you got to watch this, I don't
care if you're gonna do it on work time,
you got to watch this video.
And I'd heard about this really cool video
for cars.
But you know, I popped up my feed the
morning and I'm like, yeah, I'll get to it
later.
So I'm like, okay, whatever, I watched it
and I was blown away by what Ken Block did.
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It wasn't a Mustang.
At that time.
The Mustang wasn't used until he did the
Los Angeles one.
This Mustang did drifting between two 6.4
Impalas on Hydros.
It was cool, I loved it and it just
cemented the Mustang as one of the most
famous cars in history.
The only other two vehicles in history that
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are more famous than the Mustang is the
Willys Jeep and the Volkswagen Beetle.
Beetle holds it strong because of how long
it was in production and how many people's
lives were influenced by it and the Jeep.
It helped influence so many different
companies and so many different products.
Go back and listen to a podcast called Jeep
World and you can find out how much Jeep
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influenced the 4x4 world around the globe,
all because of their military expansion
during World War II.
Go back and listen to it.
It's a pretty good episode from a few years
back.
So really, there's a lot of famous Mustangs
out there and you got to go out and you got
to find them.
You got to see them.
There's tons of special editions.
Go out, you got to find them, you got to see
them.
We get it.
There's tons of special editions.
There's tons of, you know, great looking
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products but in all reality you got to have
them.
The mustang is here.
The mustang is amazing.
The mustang is great, no matter how much I
refuse to buy a ford product for my
everyday life just because I know of a
quality and all that, even to this day.
If somebody handed me the keys to a mustang,
like you just won this Mustang it's one of
the few cars I would actually take the keys
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instead of asking for the cash equivalent.
We got this thing in town.
It's like a $20 house hard for hearing
thing.
If you win it, you get to keep the car A
nice new Hyundai, you know, sponsored by a
Hyundai dealership in town.
I'm not fucking keeping the Hyundai Screw
that.
Give me the cash equivalent.
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I want the crappy car.
I want the Mustang and the greatest thing
about it is for the longest time in the
country of Canada.
Our most famous giveaway Roll Up the Rim
from Tim Hortons gave away Mustangs and
even though they had switched to Volkswagen
by the 50th anniversary, I thought they
were going to do it in 2014.
I thought they were going to, for one year,
bring back the Ford Mustang as their
giveaway, because the Mustang was born the
same year as Canada's number one fast food
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franchise, Tim Hortons, in 1964.
All from a dream of Lee Iacocca, a man who
saw something great and literally took the
Ford Falcon, chopped it up and turned it
into the Mustang the last minute and
managed to just get it past the board and
into production.
It's a car that was never supposed to exist.
Yeah, go back and check its history.
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The Mustang had a lot of great ideas back
in the past.
Hell, as I'm talking to you right now, on a
shelf above me, I had the original Ford
Mustang concept car in Hot Wheels form.
I also saw it at Cobble Beach, just outside
of Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada's premier
kind of like Pebble Beach, the Concourse
d'Elegance.
I actually saw one of the original ones
there, next to GM's Firebird 1, 2, and 3.
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That was way cooler, but seeing it and
showing my kids.
That's where the Mustang originally was.
At the last minute, lee Iacocca realized
they were going to pull the pin on the
polar jack.
He flipped it over to the Ford Falcon
platform, turned it into a two-door car
with a big block, V8, and bam created one
of the most famous icons in automotive
history the mustang.
Yeah, to this day there's a lot of famous
mustangs out there.
My mustang might not be super rare, it may
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not be super famous and it may not be a
true blood ford guy, but in all reality, I
still love a great mustang and so do a lot
of other people and so do a lot of other
shows.
The mustang's always out there and we
always know it as the dominating force in
the muscle car, pony car era.
It's essentially the last surviving pony
car today, since the Camaro and Challenger
are gone once again.
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And as for muscle cars, until they put a v8
and back in the Charger, there ain't
nothing else except for a mustang.
So in all reality, we got a lot of famous
Mustangs out there.
How many other famous Mustangs can you
think of?
Let us know.
So if you like this podcast, please like,
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go, wherever you've been, put us on the car
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You know the drive.
Drive in to work in the morning.
Listen and heed what we have to talk about
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Like we say AutoLooks, telling you the untold
stories of the automotive industry.
We get it.
There's a lot of famous mustangs out there
and a lot of people already knew a lot of
these stories.
But how many of you knew that there was a
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famous ford mustang in the princess diaries
back to the future?
Did you remember that five liter?
Do you remember them making that horrible
tv movie night rider and using a mustang
instead of a firebird?
Like?
How many of these do you remember?
And have you actually ever seen charge cars,
electric mustang?
Well, you can all available on our website,
at the autolooks.net website, while they're
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stopped by.
Read some of the reviews, check out some of
the rates.
Go to the corporate links website page, big
or small.
We have them all, car companies from around
the globe, all available on the autolooks.net
website and after that send us a link.
Tell us what cars you remember.
How many mustangs do we miss?
There's a lot of other famous mustangs out
there.
This is just the top one they can really
think of when it comes to watching movies
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or tv.
Hell, this is more of the American list for
Western civilization.
So tell us about your famous Mustangs and
the ones you remember.
Show us pictures of some of the famous
Mustangs that you have come to love, all
while streaming us, liking us, commenting
about us.
All from the AutoLooks Podcast and AutoLooks.net
website.
The AutoLooks Podcast is brought to you by
Ecomm Entertainment Group and distributed by
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Podbean.com.
If you'd like to get in touch with us, send
us an email over at email@autolooks.net.
So for myself, I'm Everett Jay
The AutoLooks Podcast, the Ecomm Entertainment
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this one fun wild ride that this Mustang is
going to take us on.
Thank you.
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