T5 Restoration Project

While the market introduction plans for the Mustang in the U.S. were under consideration, Ford already intended to export the new Pony car to Europe, especially when thinking of the potential customers among the US forces staff there. Unfortunately Ford had some initial problems in marketing the Mustang in Germany.

The company Krupp - beside other company activities being a truck manufacturer - produced 7 or 8 different truck versions with the name Mustang from 1951 to 1964. In total 6170 Mustang trucks were manufactured. In 1968 Krupp quit the truck business.

Kreidler (a German manufacturer of small motor bikes) owned the Mustang name rights as well. A Kreidler Mustang motorbike (small one) was built from 1974 - 1975, 3198 to be exact.  The name rights applied until Dec. 31,1978, so all Mustang and Mustang II versions and even early 79 models (built until Dec. 78) exported to Germany had to be sold under the name T5.

"T5" - as you might remember - was the initial project name of Ford for the Mustang. T5s received a special handling within Ford and are rare finds as of today.

However the two companies Krupp and Kreidler were cooperative at the starting point. The 2 German companies initially asked for a fee of $10.000 for the name rights, but Ford rejected to pay this amount. You can bet that the total amount Ford finally invested for conversion, printing different documentation etc. summed up for an even higher amount.

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