Hand-assembled Mustang convertible contradicts any prior known history of pre-production Mustangs, convertibles or coupes

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WAUCONDA, Ill./EWORLDWIRE/April 16, 2009 --- NICAB Media announced that filming for a one-hour documentary about the history of early Mustang production has been completed and is in final editing for release prior to in early summer of 2009, in conjunction with Ford Mustang's 45th anniversary. This revealing documentary turned up an unexpected surprise during its year long filming production schedule.

While ClassicMuscleCars.com TV was filming an early Mustang convertible in Boardman, Ohio, in early May of 2008, a Youngstown TV station crew from the local ABC affiliate and a local newspaper caught wind of the Mustang documentary being filmed in the area. They came out to the filming location and interviewed ClassicMuscleCars.com TV's host Tony Begley, about the documentary.

Begley and his crew were filming an early Mustang that had been restored to MCA Gold standards by Nate Miller of Buckeye Automotive Restoration LTD ('http://www.buckeyeresto.com'), one of the top early Mustang restorers.

After the local television news clip and newspaper article appeared in the Youngstown Vindicator, Nate Miller got a call from a private collector who said he had a pre-production Mustang and would like Nate to look at it for a possible restoration. That phone call to Nate Miller and subsequent phone call from Nate to Begley of ClassicMuscleCars.com has changed the history of early Mustang production forever.

An agreement was made between all parties for ClassicMuscleCars.com TV to film the complete disassembly of this previously unknown pre-production prototype Mustang convertible.

"It was like opening up a time capsule left by the workers that hand-assembled this 05C pre-production Mustang convertible," says Tony Begley. "The characteristics of this hand-assembled Mustang convertible have contradicted any prior known history of pre-production Mustangs, convertibles or coupes.

"Nate Miller and I feel that the pre-production Mustang's serial numbers seem to have been issued in the order of quality, not by production order.

"The filming of this previously unknown pre-production Mustang convertible with a high VIN number is probably one of the first Mustangs built - if not the first, hand-assembled with all pre-production parts. This will be clearly evident when the new Mustang documentary is viewed and the similarties of other pre-production prototype Mustangs that are known to exist are compared to what hand-built assembly techniques were used on the newly discovered unknown pre-production convertible," Begley states. "We also have corroborating evidence and photographs from Mustang pre-production convertible #145 that was shipped to France and is still there today.

"This car has similar hand-assembly techniques as the newly discovered 05C pre-production prototype Mustang convertible, and we feel that this car is also in the elite group of being one of the first few Mustang pre-production convertibles built.

"When the film documentary of disassembly of the previously unknown pre-production Mustang convertible is made public, the filmed evidence will overwhelmingly support this theory of pre-production Mustang serial numbers and ultimately rewrite the known history of the pre-production Mustang."

Updates on the release of this historical Mustang documentary will be provided at ClassicMuscleCars.com ('http://www.classicmusclecars.com').

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CONTACT:
Tony Begley
Northern Illinois Classic Auto Brokers, Ltd.
25084 W. Old Rand rd.
Wauconda, IL 60084
PHONE. (847)526-5950
FAX. (847)526-5990
EMAIL: nicab@ameritech.net
http://www.classicmusclecars.com

SOURCE: ClassicMuscleCars.com

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