 Mustang Ghia
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The 1979 Ghia luxury group is available for both the 2-door coupe and 3-door hatchback body styles. This luxury package which consisted of several exterior and interior options including: color matched dual remote control mirrors, quarter louvers, and body side molding inserts; and luxury soft interior seats.
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The 1979 Mustang Cobra options package was originally $1179 and included the 2.3 liter, turbo-charged, four cylinder; hood scoop; forged metric aluminum wheels with three main wide slotted spokes(replaced with 1993+ wheels on this car); blacked out window trim, body side and bumper trim, and lower body; sport mirrors, color keyed rear quarter window louver panels; tachometer and instrument cluster panel; and sport tuned exhaust with bright tailpipe tips. The hood graphics was an additional $78. See our 1979 Cobra Data Explorer for more information.
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 Mustang Cobra
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 Indianapolis Pace Car
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Ford built about 11000 Indianapolis Pace Car replicas in 1979 to commemorate the new Mustang bodyline and the pace car of the 1979 Indianapolis 500 race. All replica cars had a flip-up sunroof, red and orange striping, unique pewter/black paint scheme, unique hood, three-slat grille, premium Recaro bucket seats, and a choice of turbo-four or regular V-8 engines. The Race-day decals were included for dealers to apply if the customer wished.
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1979 was the last year of the T5 designated Mustang exported to Germany. Ford could not use the word Mustang in Germany due to registration issues which were corrected after 1979. All Mustang badging of the car was removed and replaced with T5 for export to Germany. All models of the 1979 Mustang were exported to Germany with the T5 designation, including the Cobra.
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 T-5 Ford
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 Mustang IMSA
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The 1979 Mustang IMSA(International Motor Sports Association) is a performance prototype designed by Ford's group which eventually became Ford Racing. Elements include large 12 inch wide Gotti wheels, blanked off grille, hood louvers, rear facing shaker hood scoop, air-flow sealed headlamp trim, windows flush with outside body panels (the side windows are flip out), ten bulb rear light strip. Under the hood is a 132hp, 2.3L, turbo engine. Inside is a dark plexiglass covered instrument panel, a sport steering wheel, Recaro rally leather bucket seats. Several IMSA Mustangs were built by Ford in 1979 through the 1982 model year.
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