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Mustang Trivia.
- Thread starter Ohtobbad
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TrueBlue02058
Post King
68GT500KR ?
TrueBlue02058
Post King
you are correct,
your up
67 AGAIN
Enthusiast
Ok, not even one guess? Hm!
The answer is that it was used from 1964 to 1974.
Although Ford sold cars throughout Europe, the main intended market for the T-5 was American servicemen stationed on American military bases in West Germany during the cold war.
They could not be named Mustangs there because a West German manufacturer, Humold-Klockner-Dautz, owned the rights to the word Mustang.
That company offered to sell the Mustang naming rights to Ford but officials in Dearborn declined, opting instead to strip the car of all Mustang badges and emblems and renaming the European bound car T-5.
The Mustang fender and glove box badges were replaced with horizontal T-5 badges.
T-5 had been the project’s internal company name during creation, planning and development.
Next question:
Does anybody dare take a guess at how much money the West German company offered to sell the naming rights for?
The answer is that it was used from 1964 to 1974.
Although Ford sold cars throughout Europe, the main intended market for the T-5 was American servicemen stationed on American military bases in West Germany during the cold war.
They could not be named Mustangs there because a West German manufacturer, Humold-Klockner-Dautz, owned the rights to the word Mustang.
That company offered to sell the Mustang naming rights to Ford but officials in Dearborn declined, opting instead to strip the car of all Mustang badges and emblems and renaming the European bound car T-5.
The Mustang fender and glove box badges were replaced with horizontal T-5 badges.
T-5 had been the project’s internal company name during creation, planning and development.
Next question:
Does anybody dare take a guess at how much money the West German company offered to sell the naming rights for?
TrueBlue02058
Post King
$10,000, I remember that number from an earlier post in this thread. I may be wrong ?