cover image Mustang Legends: The Power. the Performance. the Passion.

Mustang Legends: The Power. the Performance. the Passion.

. Voyageur Press (MN), $29.95 (159pp) ISBN 978-0-89658-046-6

Mustang aficionados should enjoy this compilation of essays, photos and paintings, which opens with the 1964 World's Fair in New York City where the Mustang was presented for the first time. Both a hard top and convertible were offered--of 120,000 built that year--and the ragtop carried a price tag of $2,614. Alongside the crisp color photos are sidebars of owner's manuals, ads and news reports, including the 1964 Time magazine with Lee Iacocca on the cover. The book continues on, from the 1967 GTA fastback through the Shelby GT-500, the 1968 Bullitt (imortalized in the Steve McQueen move of the same name), the 1971 Mach I, all the way to the redesign of the McQueen car, the Bullitt 2001. This isn't an exhaustive history, for it leaves out most of the Mustang flops, but the essays will surely appeal to those who lived through the Mustang heyday.