Steve Strope, owner of the design and build shop Pure Vision, envisioned a racing-tuned 1966 Ford Mustang for the Continent.
One of the joys of watching the early Sean Connery âÂÂJames Bondâ films, or even James CoburnâÂÂs tongue-in-cheek âÂÂFlintâ movies, is reveling in the splendor of their âÂÂmid-centuryâ aestheticsâÂÂthe white chinos, dark glasses and asymmetrical lairs with soaring stone walls and fully stocked martini bars. It was a stylized vision of the real world, before the microchip came along a decade later and fundamentally changed just about every aspect of life, including industrial design. You see that analog aesthetic in old racing photos and films of the day, too, where everything was mechanical, not electronic. Race teams monitored each lap at Le Mans manually with enormous Heuer chronographs attached to clipboards. There was no onboard telemetry. Hell, there werenâÂÂt even digital watchesâÂÂsimply gears, levers, counterweights, and other components designed with a slide rule and constructed with precisely machined metal.
aPhoto Gallery: 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback - The Vision Thing - Modified Mustangs & Fords
Photo Gallery: 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback - The Vision Thing - Modified Mustangs & Fords
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