The figures on the 2015 Mustang keep coming in. Several weeks ago, the Blue Oval released the specs on the new car’s engines. Now comes another important number: 1,964.
That’s how many 50 Year Limited Edition 2015 Mustangs Ford will build; the last one in the production run will be sold to the highest bidder at the Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas auction taking place Sept. 25-27. Proceeds will benefit the Edith and Benson Ford Heart & Vascular Institute’s Get Your Heart Racing program. The annual fundraiser, Henry Ford Health System’s most successful, previously auctioned off the “Need for Speed” movie Mustang for $300,000.
However, before this car crosses the B-J block, it will be shown to the public for the first time at the Get Your Heart Racing Pit Party at Eastern Market in Detroit on Sept. 12.
This most special of editions is based on a 2015 GT with the performance package and features “a plaque on the instrument panel engraved with a serial number and the signature of Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford.” It will also be “customized into a one-of-one pace car package that includes the signatures of other Ford executives.”
Whoever wins it will receive airfare, hotel accommodations and two VIP tickets to the Ford EcoBoost 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Nov. 16. Even better, that person’s new car will be the pace vehicle for the event.
You can check out the regular 50 Year Limited Edition Mustang in the gallery below.
Derek Shiekhi's father raised him on cars. As a boy, Derek accompanied his dad as he bought classics such as post-WWII GM trucks and early Ford Mustang convertibles.
After loving cars for years and getting a bachelor's degree in Business Management, Derek decided to get an associate degree in journalism. His networking put him in contact with the editor of the Austin-American Statesman newspaper, who hired him to write freelance about automotive culture and events in Austin, Texas in 2013. One particular story led to him getting a certificate for learning the foundations of road racing.
While watching TV with his parents one fateful evening, he saw a commercial that changed his life. In it, Jeep touted the Wrangler as the Texas Auto Writers Association's "SUV of Texas." Derek knew he had to join the organization if he was going to advance as an automotive writer. He joined the Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA) in 2014 and was fortunate to meet several nice people who connected him to the representatives of several automakers and the people who could give him access to press vehicles (the first one he ever got the keys to was a Lexus LX 570). He's now a regular at TAWA's two main events: the Texas Auto Roundup in the spring and the Texas Truck Rodeo in the fall.
Over the past several years, Derek has learned how to drive off-road in various four-wheel-drive SUVs (he even camped out for two nights in a Land Rover), and driven around various tracks in hot hatches, muscle cars, and exotics. Several of his pieces, including his article about the 2015 Ford F-150 being crowned TAWA's 2014 "Truck of Texas" and his review of the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider, have won awards in TAWA's annual Excellence in Craft Competition. Last year, his JK Forum profile of Wagonmaster, a business that restores Jeep Wagoneers, won prizes in TAWA’s signature writing contest and its pickup- and SUV-focused Texas Truck Invitational.
