Can you imagine.....a Four-Door Mustang??? Got Kids??? This would have been Convenient!!! autos.yahoo/photos/the-mustangs-that-never-were-slideshow/the-mustangs-that-never-were-photo-1377716399318.html From late 1961 into mid-1962, Ford designers tried out a wide range of themes for a sporty coupe based on the platform of the new Falcon compact. Each design was given an internal name for the purpose of discussion. One fastback design actually went through at least three different names starting with Avventura before moving on to Avanti and finally Allegro. The fastback design was originally sketched with a hatchback and rear-facing second row ... more In 1962, the design team, led by Gene Bordinat, worked on several iterations of another design called Allegro. While the production 1965 Mustang was a very different car in almost every visual detail from Allegro, the design study established the basic proportions that would define most Mustangs for the next five decades. The notchback coupe had the same long-hood, short-deck layout with a compact greenhouse that would roll out two years later. Early in the gestation of the original Mustang, Ford designers also considered a number of two-seaters. These were seen as a more affordable return to the roots of Thunderbird, which by this time had grown into a much larger four-seater. Aside from some track-oriented Mustangs that had the rear seats removed to save weight, there has never been a strictly two-seat production Mustang. Although it was probably never seriously considered for production as a Mustang, this hard-top variation of the Mustang 1 concept from 1962 did provide some inspiration for the GT40 MK I that would race at Le Mans and elsewhere beginning in 1964. As Avventura moved from sketch to physical design model, the hatch was replaced with a trunk and the rear seat was switched to a more conventional forward-facing orientation. Originally shown internally as Avanti, the name was eventually changed to Allegro, likely because Studebaker had introduced its own production Avanti coupe around the same time. This 1964 clay model of a two-seat Mustang incorporates some of the design cues of the production 1965 car including the side scoops. After the smashing success of the 1965 Mustang, several Ford execs pushed for a four-door version to increase sales even further. Photos 1 - 4 of 99 More photo galleries»
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