Aside from the Corvette, no other automotive marque has paced the Indianapolis 500 as often as the Mustang. In its 40-year history, the Mustang has been at Indy three times: 1964 for the Mustang ...

In 1979, the then-new Fox-body Mustang got the pace car nod, which meant Ford would also supply the Indy 500 support trucks. That September, for the 1980 model year, the F-series would get its ...

Generally speaking, when you’re thinking about Indianapolis pace cars, the names Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, or Chevrolet Corvette come into mind. But there are official trucks too ...

That's the situation Ford discovered when they offered to supply the Indy 500 folks with their 1979 pace setters ... the one on the right is a forged 292 truck model with a 3.3-inch stroke.

Through a Marti Report, Gies learned that his Pace Car had been purchased new at Cliff & Ders Ford in Edmore, Michigan, on May 26, 1979, the day before the actual running of the 1979 Indianapolis ...

After several years of watching GMC issue vividly decaled Indy 500 "official truck" replicas, Ford created its own for 1979, in a silver, black, and orange scheme matching that year's Mustang pace car ...