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HIND SIGHT TEXT BY Thomas Voehringer • PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF MotorTrend Group Archives
T
he Mustang was the official car of the
1968 Mexican Rally Internacional de
las 24 Horas (International 24-Hour
Rally) that traversed Mexico City’s
surrounding area. Petersen’s Sports
Car Graphic magazine covered the rally
from a made-in-Mexico Mustang driven by the Rally-
master, Franco Soldati. Mustangs from Mexico and the
U.S. were entered, including a G.T. 350 from the team of
Attila (now that’s a name) Fenyes and Steven Jamison.
The Mustang in this Jean Calvin photo has a number
of Shelby items—sidescoop, spoiler, taillights, and side-exit exhaust—but the steelies are probably mounted
for durability’s sake. One James Bond–like feature: the
projector-beam sideview mirrors, which aided visibility
during the night-driving sessions. Driving was already
taxing, even before the sky dumped a ton of agua on the
off-road sections of the course, forcing many to time out,
get stuck, or break. When the sunshine returned, only
13 had made it to the finish line. From the wide array
of manufacturers entered—Renault, Dodge, Chevrolet,
Lotus, Mini, VW, and others—a stock Mexican Ford
Mustang, driven by the team of Carlos Pruneda and
Juan A. Ibarra, took the win.Hecho en Mexico