Someone Just Paid $180,000 For This Rare Italian Ford Mustang
It’s a pretty pony car.
A unique classic Ford Mustang modified by Italian design house Zagato that was listed for auction on Bring A Trailer has been sold for €155,000, which is approximately $180,000.
The 1967 Ford Mustang GT Zagato Elaborazione features a redesiged front end with rectangular headlights, a slim grille, a lower hood with a scoop on top and a repositioned bumper.
The interior is trimmed in custom two-tone black and white leather, but the car is otherwise largely original and powered by a 289-cubic-inch V8 connected to a four-speed manual transmission.
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The Holy Green-colored car is the only Mustang GT of its kind, but Zagato gave a similar treatment to a Shelby GT350.
The car was fully restored in 2019 and currently resides in Italy, but the location of the buyer has not been announced.
Ford never entered a formal collaboration to put a Zagato-designed Mustang into production, but it did sell one styled by another Italian firm.
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Ford purchased Carrozzeria Ghia in 1970 and soon put it to work on the Mustang II, which was offered in a luxurious Ghia trim that included a vinyl landau top, wood trim, Westminster Cloth upholstery, cut-pile carpet and aluminum wheels.
The Ghia trim was available for the duration of the Mustang II’s life and made the jump to the third generation Mustang that launched in 1979, but was discontinued after the 1981 model year.
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Ford has built many high-end Mustangs since then, but they’ve all been about performance and it has yet to take another shot at a luxury model or an Italian-designed production car.
It did build a concept based on the 2006 Mustang that was designed by Giugiario, however, which featured a dramatically restyled body and scissor doors, but it never made it off of the auto show stage and a Ford spokesperson told American Cars And Racing that the company doesn’t have any records on the car so its current whereabouts, if it still exists, are unknown.