Gale Halderman, designer behind first Ford Mustang, dies

A young Gale Halderman with one of his early sketches of what became the Ford Mustang, and an early prototype of the car with a Cougar in the grille, a name he and his boss championed.

April 30, 2020 12:49 AM

Gale Halderman, credited with the exterior styling of the original Ford Mustang, based on sketches he created some 21 months before the car's April 1964 public debut, died Wednesday. He was 87.

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