I hope that's not the one you drove home in. ;-D
Actually, the Mustang assembled on the roof of the Empire State building was
not a complete vehicle. From the outside it looks like a complete car but in
actuality the engine and drive line were missing. The car was cut into 6
pieces by an outside concern - DST - just west of Detroit. They actually
built a mockup elevator in Michigan to insure they could get the Mustang
into the elevator at the Empire State. They did the original roof Mustang
back in 1964.
http://youtu.be/OXVkBu8hnHM shows the work done to build the roof car.
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20140416/newyork/140419881 shows some of the
work at the Empire State building.
In my last years at Ford, we used DST for the trial mockups used in
liability lawsuits - those guy are simply fantastic. Some of their car part
cutaways are works of art!
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sessoms" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PESO- Empire State by Phone
After looking at what they had to do to get the car up there, I hope
that's not the one you drove home in. ;-D
On 4/18/2014 10:06 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Back from the NY Auto Show. It was a three-day marathon: two
fourteen hour days and another eight hours in the Javits press room
yesterday before heading for home at 4PM. Rolled in at 1a.m. Drove
out in a 425 horsepower Mustang GT on loan from Ford, so I made
pretty good time. I was both shooting and writing, so there was
little time for anything else. Wednesday night Ford threw a birthday
party for Mustangs 50th in and on the Empire State building. I took a
few pics with my camera but the best of the night may have been this
phone pic that I snapped on the observation deck. I was going to
reframe a bit to the right and shoot another but my battery ran out
and the phone died. Still like this one though. Right out of the
phone with just a bit of cropping to make it 8x12. I’m going to try
printing it, just for grins.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17739303&size=lg
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