Thursday, May 16, 2024

Who Bought the First Ford Mustang?-- Part 6: Old License Plate and the Blizzard of '67

Affixed to Gail Wise's Mustang is a 1964 Illinois license plate and a 1965 Chicago city sticker.  The Mustang has also benefited from a relatively good fortune to celebrate sixty years in the family's possession.

In the early days, she managed to make it home without abandoning the rear-wheel drive car in snowdrifts-- the fate of tens of thousands of vehicles-- as Chicago's Great Blizzard of 1967 dumped 23 inches of snow on the city.

As it was, Wise was blocked  by the blizzard from sheltering the Mustang in the garage so it had to stay out on the street as the snow covered it.

--DaMustang


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