It’s rare that you come across a sixties Mustang just sitting on the street for months on end especially in Southern California where classic American cars are typically treasured. But here it is, less than a block away from the Hollywood Freeway near Studio City, just sitting there, rusting away.
Whose is it? No idea.

Own a 1964 1/2 – 1973 model Ford Mustang?
Well, Kathy Miller wants to hear about it.
The Ohioan is on a mission to register as many original owners of first generation Ford Mustangs as she can as part of 50th Anniversary celebrations being planned for the car April 15 – 20, in Las Vegas and Charlotte, North Carolina.

Gail Wise was 22 back in 1964 when she unknowingly bought the world’s first Ford Mustang days before CEO Lee Iacocca introduced the car at the World’s Fair. On April 15, 1964 she bought the car from Johnson Ford in Chicago when the salesman agreed to sell her the baby-blue convertible that was hiding underneath a car cover in a back room.

Yup, hold your breath.
Those are the remains of a Shelby Mustang GT500 that went up in flames.
We know, it’s quite painful for us to look at too as we stare at the charred front end of the classic American muscle car. Apparently, the GT500, owned by, Mark Keller, the star of a popular German TV show, met its unfortunate fate during a breakfast run.

A study conducted with more than 75,000 people from Belgium, Austria, Germany, Holland and Spain found that 37 percent of those surveyed named the Ford Mustang as the top classic car they’d like to own, according to an Auto Scout 24 report.

While the massive Mustang Alley display along 9 Mile Road in Ferndale is dominated by newer generation Mustang, the classics still hold a prominent role in reminding everyone in attendance how the passion for the original pony car got started. Our “classic Mustang” gallery from the Woodward Dream Cruise is comprised of just a very few of the 1964.5-1973 model year Mustangs parked in Mustang Alley.

Now here’s something you don’t see everyday: a hill climbing classic Mustang that can devour the steepest of hills with the best of them. The Mustang action starts around the 2:10 mark, but there are some serious hill climbs throughout the whole video.