Re: Mustang...Spitfire???

["John T. Nichols" <jtnichols@earthlink.net>]

> 
> Joe Curry writes:
  In Ford's case it
> >was the Falcon which sprung off the Mustang and with Triumph it was the
> >Herald which offered up the basis for the very successful Spitfire.

Actually it was the Mustang that "sprung off" the Falcon! The first
Falcons came out in, I believe, 1960 and the first Mustang not until
1965. The 1965 Mustang frame and suspension were nearly pure Falcon
which accounts for its fairly high ride height for a "sporty car".

John T. Nichols
'58 TR3A TS32093L 'O'
'86 TVR 280i