Natasha, president of MustangMadam.com will be entering one of our cars in the upcoming classic car shows in March. She will be entering this pristine, show condition 1965 Mustang GT. The shows are a lot of fun and people love to go just for great music, food and drinks as well as to look at gorgeous hunks of hot metal. “Cal Rods 2nd Annual Classic Car Show” will be on March 16th at the Santa Anita California Racetrack, and “Cool Cruise 2008″ will be held on March 22nd in Laverne, California.

We feel that fastbacks deserve their own page.  Here are some pics of the 1966 red fastback owned by one of our consulting editors, Jeff Jackson.  All Fastback photos welcome.  

 Here is a photo gallery of one of our consulting editors, Jeff Jackson. 

Competitors such as “Plymouth” which released its Barracuda 2 weeks prior sold a total of 23, 443 cars in their first year.  Ford sold over 22,000 on the first DAY the Mustang was released.  Here you can see a picture of Plymouths first Barracuda:     Chevrolet had the Corvette out since 1953. Between 1953 and 1962 Chevrolet sold a total of 69,015 cars.  So, with a 10 year head start, Chevrolet sold about as many corvettes as Ford sold in the first 1 month of Mustang sales.  Here is a photo of a 1965 Corvette:    To compete with the Mustang, Chevrolet released the Camaro.  It was marketed toward the same public, and was priced approximately the same ( average cost in 1967 was $2400).   Approximately 220,000 were sold in their first year, approximately 1/4 of Mustangs sales for its first year.  The Camaro was also only available with a 6 cylinder engine, while Mustangs had 3 engine options to choose from. Here is a picture of a 1967 Camaro:    Comments welcome!  To be continued…. 

I think everyone was wondering ( certainly I was) who was going to buy the famous 1969 GT 500. And who got it?  The “mysterious” Ron Pratt.  Yes, Ron Pratt, international man of mystery - who will not give interviews or tell us anything about himself, who he hangs out with, nothing.  What we know of him probably came from a stolen FBI file.  However - he has EVERY RIGHT to his privacy.  He is a land developer, business tycoon who lives in Chandler, Arizona.   Last year at the Barrett Jackson auction Ron Pratt bought Carroll Shelby’s personal supercharged 427  Cobra, seen here, for $5 Million. Ron Pratt is obviously also a collector of fine automobiles.  I would love to see his museum, wouldn’t we all.  Maybe someday we can have a sneak peak but I’m not holding my breath. This year he bought Carroll Shelby’s personal 1969 GT 500 for $675,000.   At least we know one more thing about Ron Pratt, he’s fond of Carroll Shelby.  Here’s the car that was more than half a million dollars.