fastmustangII said:http://bradbarnett.net/mustangs/timeline/74-78/74/64-74.jpg
oh gee i guess those 2 cars dont look anything alike
No duh. Yes, I covered that point:nor do they have to be the same size to share proportions
You don't understand what I'm getting at, so I'll drop it. Forget about it.even if it was scaled down proportionally
RICKS said:You've completely missed my point... You can say that the Mustang II "looks like" the 65-68 cars, but it misses all of the primary dimensional and proportional points, and how they relate to each other. It's a tiny little car, and if you tossed a car cover from 65-68 fastback over a Mustang II, nothing would line up. It would look like a XXL t-shirt on Gary Coleman, and none of the seams or pockets on the cover would allign with anything, even if it was scaled down proportionally. I've got nothing against the "II", but Ford tossed the key relational dimensions out the window when they styled it on that Pinto platform. That's why I said "excluding". It's not a diss, it's just a reality. And at this point, I'm being annoyingly boring....
(&) said:Two cars don't have to be the same size to look the same, nor do they have to be the same size to share proportions. Proportions are relative. There's not many cheapskates out there who really give a damn if their car cover fits every Mustang in their stable.
Just to skew this even further off topic, the II is hardly on the Pinto platform anyway. The only thing the II shares with the Pinto is the rear wheel houses, the trunk floor, front suspension arms, and the rear axle. It was less of a Pinto than the original Mustang was a Falcon, or the fox body was a Fairmont.
I was referring to this direct quote from you
"Not to any owners of 65-68 Mustangs. We called them "Pentangs" because they were basically a Pinto with a Mustang-looking grille. Nowhere near the car that a "real" Mustang was, in the opinion of the day."