Gorgeous color.  Was a time we called that ‘Candy Apple Red.’

California doesn’t ‘push their politics’ on anyone. The other states voluntarily followed California’s requirements (saving themselves the expense of the R&D and construction of the regs).

So, no?

“... V8 engined Big Healeys...”

After WWII, the gov’t sold complete P-51 Mustangs--’knocked down’ in crates--for $1,500.  Oh to have salted a few of those away (a flyable Mustang is worth well north of $1M today).

Great story. On a similar note, Donald Healey asked a junior designer named Jerry Coker—who, to my knowledge had never designed a real car before—to put a body on what was to be the Healey 100 (on the right). Eventually, the car was built by Austin and had a successful production run of over 14 years. Shelby wanted to…

“The new Mustang Mach-E made its debut last night thanks to an accidental leak.”

Your boomer uncles are saying “they don’t make em like they used to argle bargle”... they’re making them better.

They shoulda just called it “Mach E” ... the Mustang, uh, ‘lineage’ is obvious enough.

“Foolish automakers looking to dangerous electricity (that stuff causes fires!)“

20-80MPH times are important when trying to merge on a California freeway (at least, if you’re doing it right).

My ‘19 Bullitt has a fancy, all-electronic ‘gauge cluster’ and all the nannies. The nannies crap out when it gets hot and/or dusty, as it often does in the California Central Valley. Of course, it works fine when the dealer sees it.

“My beliefs/faith don’t care what your peer-reviewed, double-blind experiment proven, empirically obvious well-established science says.”

REVERSE: Alan Bean? I think he was one of them, because I just read an article in Hagerty’s magazine about the three gold/black Corvettes GM leased to NASA for $1 for the astronauts to drive (for GM PR, obviously).

I can’t go a full day without some Nissan crapbox riding my ass or cutting me off in my Mustang GT.  Sure, I understand you got nothin’ to lose, but no one believes you have a hot car.

No, it simply did not occur to the programmers/engineers that people jaywalk.

re: ‘James Bond would not look out of place driving a Ferrari. HD, not so much.’

The ‘fewer kids’ part is legit.

The old saw:

That’s easy: I ‘engage warp drive’ in my Austin-Healeys when I hit the overdrive switch: