From the high banks of Daytona at nighttime to some of the fastest drag strips across North America, the Ford Mustang has become an icon among American muscle cars.
After its debut on the showroom floor in 1964, the Mustang has run and won in Trans-Am, IMSA, drag racing and production car street stock racing. It has set speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats, won short track races and performed pace car duties at the Indy 500 and major NASCAR events.
The Competition Mustang developed by Multimatic will do battle with some of the world's finest manufacturers in Grand-Am Cup competition in 2005.
Ford and Multimatic are committed to continuing Mustang's outstanding track record a record of victory and success.
| 1962 |
- Mustang prototype demonstrated at the U.S. Grand Prix by Dan Gurney.
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| 1964 |
- The Mustang hits the track as the pace car for the Indy 500
- Finished 1st and 2nd in class in the Tour de France International Rally
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| 1965 |
- Began drag racing in National Hot Rod Association's Factory Experimental, or A/FX class
- Carol Shelby debuted the Mustang GT-350 for road racing competition.
- Jerry Titus, Bob Johnson and Mark Donohue drove GT-350s to national titles.
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| 1966 |
- Jerry Titus, in a Shelby-prepared Mustang, won the Trans-Am season finale at Riverside.
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| 1967 |
- Titus won four races, the driver's title and Ford won a second straight manufacturer's title.
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| 1968 |
- Ford introduced the 428 Mustang Cobra Jet.
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| 1969 |
- Mustangs collected 295 USAC-certified records at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
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| 1970 |
- Parnelli Jones and George Follmer won six Trans-Am races and the manufacturer's championship as Jones took the driver's title for Bud Moore's team.
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| 1972 |
- Dick Trickle raced a Mustang to a record 67 short track feature wins in one season.
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| 1975 |
- Bob Glidden won four national events and his second NHRA championship.
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| 1981 |
- In IMSA racing, Klaus Ludwig won at Brainerd and Sears Point in the Miller Mustang.
- Tom Gloy put a Mustang back in a Trans-Am winner's circle at Sears Point.
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| 1984 |
- A Roush-prepared Mustang, driven by Willy T. Ribbs and Wally Dallenbach Jr., won GTO class in the three-hour IMSA season finale at Daytona.
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| 1985 |
- Dallenbach, John Jones and Doc Bundy won GTO class at the Daytona 24 Hours - the first of three consecutive Mustang victories in the season-opening marathon
- John Jones won the GTO driver's championship, while nine Mustang victories brought Ford its first road-racing manufacturer's championship since 1970.
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| 1986 |
- The Roush Mustangs took eight more GTO wins and the manufacturer's title for Ford.
- Scott Pruett scored seven of those wins and claimed the GTO driver's championship.
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| 1987 |
- The Daytona 24 hours and one other victory were Mustang's GTO total for the year.
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| 1989 |
- Dorsey Schroeder won the Trans-Am title and led Ford to the manufacturer's title.
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| 1995 |
- Multimatic began a three-year campaign with an in-house developed Mustang-based IMSA GTS car, the world's fastest tube framed car.
- Actor and racer Paul Newman drives a Mustang to a class win at the Daytona 24 Hour.
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| 1996 |
- Multimatic premiered Ford's new SVT Cobra Mustang and the 4.6 litre, 4V Modular V8 engine, the first ever race program for the new engine.
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| 1997 |
- Tommy Kendall carried on the Mustang Trans-Am tradition by taking 11 wins in a row.
- Multimatic campaigned both 4.6 litre SVT Cobra and 5.8 litre Cobra R Mustangs in Canadian and U.S. national championships.
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| 1998 |
- Multimatic ran four Mustang Cobras in the Motorola Cup Street Stock Championship, finishing third in the championship and winning at Montreal and Mid-Ohio.
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| 1999 |
- Multimatic won Ford's first ever manufacturer's title in showroom stock racing.
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| 2002 |
- John Force won his 12th national crown in his Ford Mustang Funny Car.
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