Ford to auction off Apollo mission-inspired Mustang - The Detroit News
For the eighth straight year, Ford Motor Company has created a unique, aviation-inspired Ford Mustang to benefit Experimental Aircraft Association youth education programs, including the Young Eagles. The Apollo Edition Mustang will be donated and sold via auction at the Gathering of Eagles charity event, July 23, at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015 – the World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration. Interior enhancements were designed by Ford’s Betancourt and Nicole Rush, and created in-house by Ford’s design fabrication team. Additional contributors to the project include Ford Performance, Eibach Springs, Carbon 2 Carbon, BASF automotive refinish, Gibson performance exhaust, Pirelli tires, Forgiato wheels, Rigid Industries LED lighting, SourceSE by sPod, 3M window... The Apollo-inspired Mustang will be donated and sold via auction to support the Experimental Aircraft Association's youth education programs, which has provided free introductory flights to more than 1. 9 million young people since 1992. The... "The Apollo program delivered astonishing innovations in technology and achieved a national goal of landing the first human on the moon," Edsel B. Ford II, a member of the Ford board of directors, said in a statement. Source: www.detroitnews.com
