Its been some time since I added a post to my blog. Rest assured, I’m still alive and well. I have just been working on a number of projects that I can’t share at this time, but I should have a lot of content in the coming months.
Last week, I had the honor of meeting the first Ford Mustang owner ever and riding in the small 1964 1/2 convertible. When I learned that the car had sat in their garage for 27 years before it was restored, I knew that would be an appropriate backdrop for their portrait. They only discovered they had the fist one ever sold after they started showing the car.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Gail Wise didn’t know she was getting anything special when she drove away from a Chicago Ford dealership in the spring of 1964 in the first Mustang ever sold. Wise paid $3,347 for the car, happy to have a convertible. It wasn’t until she was on the road, with other drivers honking and flagging her down, that she realized what she had. “I felt like a movie star,” she said… Read More
Tom and Gail Wise ride in her Skylight Blue 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang convertible in Park Ridge, Illinois November 26th, 2013. Gail Wise, then using her maiden name of Gail Brown, made the first known retail purchase of a Mustang on April 15, 1964, two days before the model went on sale. Ford will unveil its next-generation 2015 Mustang on December 5, 2013 for the model’s 50th anniversary with simultaneous events in Michigan, Shanghai, Sydney, Barcelona, New York and Los Angeles. REUTERS/John Gress [dt_divider style=”narrow”/] A hubcap is seen on the passenger side of Gail Wise’s Skylight Blue 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang convertible in Park Ridge, Illinois November 26th, 2013. REUTERS/John Gress [dt_divider style=”narrow”/] A Mustang badge is seen on the back of Gail Wise’s Skylight Blue 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang convertible in Park Ridge, Illinois November 26th, 2013. REUTERS/John Gress [dt_divider style=”narrow”/] The steering wheel of Gail Wise’s Skylight Blue 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang convertible is seen in Park Ridge, Illinois November 26th, 2013. REUTERS/John Gress [dt_divider style=”narrow”/] The odometer of Gail Wise’s Skylight Blue 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang convertible displays the cars 67,000 original miles in Park Ridge, Illinois November 26th, 2013. REUTERS/John Gress [dt_divider style=”narrow”/] Tom and Gail Wise ride in her Skylight Blue 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang convertible in Park Ridge, Illinois November 26th, 2013. REUTERS/John Gress [dt_divider style=”narrow”/] To fit in the back seat I had to put one foot under each seat! [dt_divider style=”narrow”/] [dt_divider style=”narrow”/]
