1968 Mustang Photo Collection
(C) 2007-2023 MustangAttitude.com - all rights reserved.
Page 56 of 69
 PrevYear |
 PrevPage |
|
NextPage |
NextYear |
Here is a photo of how Mike found the car in Billings, Montana. Outside and under a tarp. Looks like without wheels too.
Here they are trying to move the car. Check out the rolling hills in the background.
Great photo of the car in its new home, already to be worked on.
We think this is a Mountain Green (Mustang Emerald Green) 1968 Rocky Mountain Sportsman's Special Bronco. Little is known about this Ford Truck special model except that it was probably only in the Denver area; included the Bronco, F100 and F250; and came in Boulder Bronze (WT3833), Mountain Green (WT7819), and Sky Blue (WT8816). The reason we have a Bronco on a Mustang site is its color. The color is a match for the 1968, Color of the Month promotion for March commemorating Saint Patrick's Day.
Here is the promotional information we have found from a Ditzler PPG color supplemental bulletin.
This 1966 High Country Bronco Wagon advertisement may be an earlier version of the Rocky Mountain Sportsman Special. Phil Long Ford placed this advertisement in the September 4th, 1966 edition of the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph newspaper in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Phil Long Ford also handled the 1966-68 High Country Special Mustang.
Josh sends us this photo of a car he just found, a 1968 Rainbow of Colors promotional Mustang hardtop in special order Madagascar Orange. It has the louvered hood option, side stripe, possibility a vinyl roof, and special order paint. The Rainbow of Colors promotion offered special paint on baseline and heavily optioned Mustangs in the California and Utah areas.
Here is the door data tag for Josh's 1968 Rainbow of Colors promotional Mustang. It reads, 65A hardtop body style, blank color for special order, 2A black standard bucket seat, 16B build complete scheduled for February 16 1968, 721187 ordered in the San Jose area with special order 1187, 2 2.79:1 standard differential axle, and 5 4-speed manual transmission.
Have you seen the 1968 movie called Bullitt staring Steve McQueen and this Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT fastback? If you haven't, you better go out and get the movie and watch it. The movie has the best car chase scenes ever filmed. The scene featured this Mustang chasing two hit-men in a black 1968 Dodge Charger R/T 440 Magnum. It was 9 minutes and 42 seconds long. Speeds exceeded 110 mph and Steve McQueen did most of the actual driving!
Two Highland Green 1968 Mustang GTs were built for the movie. One was destroyed during the movie. The other is rumored to still be around but stashed away from the public eye. They were originally modified for filming by Max Balchowski. They received GR70 tires mounted on 15x8 American Racing Torque Thrusts, heavy duty springs, Koni racing shocks, and added reinforcing braces for the inner fenders. Each car had 390ci 4V engines tweaked for higher performance.
There is Detective Lieutenant Frank Bullitt (played by Steve McQueen) driving in the Bullitt Mustang in the movie. Awesome shot!
In this shot Steve McQueen is trading paint with a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T in the movie's big chase scene! The chase ends soon after this shot with the Charger flying through a gas station and blows up. The Mustang is suppose to be a GT, but I don't see the exhaust cut-outs in the rear valance.
Here is why the Bullitt movie car was built with heavy duty shocks and springs.
Long thought gone, Ralph Garcia, Jr. and Hugo Sanchez (in 2016) happened across one of the two Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT 390 fastbacks used in the 1968 Movie called Bullitt. They were looking for fastbacks to turn into Eleanor replicas when then noticed some odd features of this wrecked fastback. It was verified as one of the two Bullitt Mustangs and the story was released to the public in March of 2017.
After this Mustang was used in the movie it was taken to Mexico as it was too wrecked to be repaired and put on the road in California. The Highland Green paint was covered with red then white paint. It stayed in Mexico for a while then moved to a backyard in Los Cabos where it was discovered.
This Bullitt movie car was restored. The paint is flat. It was originally scuffed to a flat appearance for the original movie shoot.
Check out this Diamond Blue 1968 Mustang hardtop. It has a blue interior and a 6-cylinder engine under the hood. Diamond Blue was the lightest of six standard blue paints offered on the 1968 Mustang.
Diamond Blue 1968 Mustang hardtop, left side view. This color returned on the Mustang in 1970 and 1971 called Pastel Blue.
Diamond Blue 1968 Mustang hardtop, left rear view. It has two speakers mounted in the rear package tray.
Diamond Blue 1968 Mustang hardtop, right rear view.| PrevYear |
PrevPage |
|
NextPage |
NextYear |
Check out other Model Year Thumbnail Collections...
64 65 66 67 [ 1968 ] 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25