Would You Add a 60th Anniversary Mustang to Your Collection

Limited editions make total sense for a vehicle as beloved and as plentiful as America's original pony car, especially when that model is celebrating its 60th birthday. Six decades is a lot to reflect on-keep an eye on our multi-week cascade of Mustang stories by clicking here-and a great reason for Ford to build a limited-run pony to allure collectors.

Ford will only build one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-five examples of the 60th Anniversary Package: Even though the world first met the Mustang on this day in 1964, and production of the car did start in the second half of that year, the Blue Oval rightly asserts 1965 as the first official model year. The round number is a good call: The community may refer to those earliest builds as 1964 1/2 models, but who wants half a Mustang?

While the 60th Anniversary Package doesn't include any changes to the driveline, the basic recipe is foolproof: The V-8-powered, GT Premium variant, with either a manual or an automatic transmission. Since the Premium trim brings the option of a fastback or a convertible, you can also have your retro-tastic 'Stang as a droptop.

To underscore the 'Murica factor, only three paint options are available: Race Red, Wimbledon White, and Vapor Blue. Wimbledon White is probably the one you want: It is the only one of the three colors that isn't normally available on a 2024 Mustang, and it's the most nostalgic: Wimbledon White was worn by the earliest Mustangs.

From there, the 60th Anniversary Edition adds a set of unique 20-inch, five-spoke wheels with red center caps bearing the galloping pony. The rocker panels gain a set of stripes and the phrase "60 years"-you can order them either in silver or in red. The grille bears a new texture and integrates two air intakes, or "nostrils," framed in silver. The housings of the headlights are smoked. Unless you order your car in Wimbledon White, you'll get mirror caps painted in silver, a callback to old-school chrome mirrors, Ford says. (Wimbledon White cars get matching, painted mirror caps.)

Edition-specific badges on the fenders and trunk lid are designed to recall the cloisonné badges on the '65 Mustang: Shaped like shields, the ones on the decklid feature a red background with black gradient stripes overlaid with the black letters GT, trimmed in chrome. Below those, in smaller font, is "60 years" in chrome. The badges on the fenders, of course, read 5.0, in the same color scheme.

Inside, you can choose from three colors of leather: gray, red, or black. (Tan or blue leather, typically available on a GT Premium, the latter with the California Special package, are excluded.) You will, of course, get a serialized dash plaque.

"The design was directly inspired by the clean silhouette of the original car," said Stefan Taylor, senior designer. "During the design process, we looked closely at the finely detailed elements of the 1965 Mustang, like the fender badges and wheel center caps. Our focus was capturing the feel of the '65, while also staying true to the Mustang as the modern sports car that it is."

We love the package how it's specced in these press photos: A convertible in Wimbledon White over Race Red-with a manual, of course, though the transmission choice isn't visible from the photo set.

Pricing will be available closer to summer, when orders open. Count on deliveries to dealerships the fourth quarter.