2015 Ford Mustang 50 Year Limited Edition Debuts At 2014 New York Auto Show

Ford’s new 2015 Mustang 50 Year Limited Edition may not be listed as a 2014.5 model, but it comes exactly 50 years after the original pony car was revealed at New York World's Fair back in 1964. This time Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] is using the 2014 New York Auto Show to present the latest chapter in its muscle car’s legend but the automaker also has a whole list of other celebrations planned including the recreation of a 1964 stunt where a Mustang was taken to the roof of the Empire State Building.

Only 1,964 examples of the 2015 Ford Mustang 50 Year Limited Edition will be built, all of them based on the V-8-powered Mustang GT fastback coupe. The cars are all fully-loaded, meaning the only choice for buyers is one of two exclusive colors (Wimbledon White or Kona Blue) and either a manual or automatic transmission.

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To the untrained eye it may just look like a regular 2015 Mustang, but to the faithful the car is brimming with design cues that link it to the original. For example, the Wimbledon White color was used for the Mustang bearing chassis number 001. The car, a convertible, was a pre-production version that was accidentally sold to airline pilot Stanley Tucker. He was later kind enough to give it back to Ford which has displayed it in the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

There is also some new chrome trim, with the shiny stuff featuring on a retro Mustang badge in the grille and bezels surrounding the base of each of the three tail-lamp blades. Both take inspiration from the original 1962 design proposal for the Mustang penned by Gale Halderman.

The car also gets a replica gas cap badge on the rear fascia where “50 Years” has been added to the GT designation, and in addition to these there are louvered rear quarter-windows. Unlike the external louvers on the quarter-windows of the original, the new windows are comprised of layered sheets of glass built with a construction technique uniquely developed for this car. It won’t feature on any other Mustang, Ford promises.