" The 1971 Mustang was nearly 3 inches wider than the 1970, its front and rear track was also widened by 3 inches, and its size was most evident in the SportsRoof models with its nearly flat rear roofline and cramped interior with poor visibility for the driver.

Lee Iacocca, who had been one of the forces behind the original Mustang, became President of Ford Motor Company in 1970 and ordered a smaller, more fuel-efficient Mustang for 1974.

In 1989, its silver anniversary year, the Mustang won Ford its first Trans-Am manufacturers ’ title since 1970, with Dorsey Schroeder winning the drivers ’ championship.

For that race, and the race following at West Virginia International Speedway, Allison raced a Grand National – Grand American combination race in a Grand American Series specification 1970 Ford Mustang, # 49, sponsored by Rollins Leasing, and owned by Melvin Joseph.

The Ford Mustang driven by George Follmer in the 1970 Trans-Am series.

* Chip Foose – It was a 1970 Ford Mustang from the show Overhaulin '.

# REDIRECT Shelby Mustang # 1965 – 1970 GT350 and GT500

# REDIRECT Shelby Mustang # 1965 – 1970 GT350 and GT500

The Shelby Mustang is a high performance variant of the Ford Mustang which was built by Shelby American from 1965 through 1970.

He prefers American muscle cars of the 1970s and Fords in particular ; a couple of his personal favorites being a modified 1970 Boss 302 Mustang and a supercharged 1971 Mach 1.

Trickle used his purple 1970 Ford Mustang to win at the Minnesota Fair and at Rockford Speedway in September.

Saleen, Incorporated, in Irvine, California, produced a limited edition ( 500 unit ) 2007 Saleen S302 PJ commemorating Parnelli's 1970 SCCA Ford Mustang Boss 302 racer.

Other special performance enhancements to this car include a special Watts-Link suspension unique to the 1970 Boss Mustang used by Parnelli Jones.

However, by the time the ' 71 Mustang was introduced in September, 1970, the musclecar market had collapsed due to exoribitant insurance premiums and increasingly stringent emission regulations that led to the design of engines to run on unleaded gasoline.

Klaus Ludwig drove the Roush-Zakspeed Ford Mustang Turbo during the 1981 and 1982 IMSA GT Championship | Camel GT race seasons. Roush worked at Ford after graduating in 1966, and left in 1970 to pursue his own company.

* 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 429

During that season, they won their only NFC Championship Game since the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger, and reached Super Bowl XLIII.

More milestones followed as he won his 100th England cap on 21 April 1970 against Northern Ireland, and was made captain by Ramsey for the occasion.

After sweeping the Twins once again in the ALCS, the Orioles won the 1970 World Series by defeating the Cincinnati Reds ' Big Red Machine in five games.

In the 1970 presidential election, Senator Salvador Allende Gossens won a plurality of votes in a three-way contest.

Under Docherty's successor, Dave Sexton, Chelsea won the FA Cup in 1970, beating Leeds United 2 – 1 in a final replay.

However, both books went on to receive high acclaim and, in 1970, jointly won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a major prize in children's literature.

The support for state autonomy grew when Awami League introduced the Six point movement in 1966, and participated with full force in the 1970 general elections in which the Awami League had won and secured the exclusive mandate of East-Pakistan.

The tense diplomatic relations between East and West Pakistan reached a climax in 1970 when the Awami League, the largest East Pakistani political party, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ( Mujib ), won a landslide victory in the national elections in East Pakistan.

In 1970 and 1971 three 504cc Cheney Triumphs were used by the British team in the ISDT, in which Cheney won a manufacturer's prize.

He co-wrote the script for Patton ( 1970 ), which won him an Academy Award for Best Writing ( Original Screenplay ).

This report was accepted by the Labour Party government of the time despite considerable opposition, but the Conservative Party won the June 1970 general election, and on a manifesto that committed them to a two-tier structure.

He won the Fields Medal in 1970.

Brazil won the trophy outright in 1970, prompting the commissioning of a replacement.

Only two players have won both the Norris and Hart Memorial Trophy for the league Most Valuable Player in the same season: Bobby Orr, who won both trophies in the 1969 – 70, 1970 – 71 and 1971 – 72 seasons, and Chris Pronger, who won the Hart and Norris in the 1999 – 2000 NHL season.

Brabham also drove for the works Matra team during the 1970 World Sportscar Championship season and won the final race of the season and his final top level race at the Paris 1000 km in October that year.

In addition to the Nebula award in 1970 and the Hugo and Locus awards in 1971 for Ringworld, Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for " Neutron Star " in 1967.

Billy Kidd, part Abenaki from Vermont, became the first American male to medal in alpine skiing in the Olympics, taking silver at age 20 in the slalom in the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. Six years later at the 1970 World Championships, Kidd won the gold medal in the combined event and took the bronze medal in the slalom.

This National League pennant was notable because it was the only NL East title between 1970 and 1980 that wasn't won by either the Philadelphia Phillies or the Pittsburgh Pirates.

During the 1970 campaign, Clemente compiled an average of. 352 ; the Pirates won the National League East but were subsequently eliminated by the Cincinnati Reds.

Ringworld won the Hugo Award in 1970, as well as both the Nebula Award and Locus Award in 1971.

He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays — one before his imprisonment and blacklisting ( for Woman of the Year in 1942 ), and one after ( for M * A * S * H in 1970 ).

She received wide recognition for her novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1970.

Four players have won the Main Event multiple times: Johnny Moss ( 1970, 1971, and 1974 ), Doyle Brunson ( 1976 and 1977 ), Stu Ungar ( 1980, 1981, and 1997 ) and Johnny Chan ( 1987 and 1988 ).

The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway ( 1964, 1966, 1968 ), Daytona International Speedway ( 1965, 1967, 1969 ), Road Atlanta ( 1970 – 1993 ), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ( 1994 – 2005 ), and Heartland Park Topeka ( 2006 – 2008 ).

The block could also be shortened, starting with the Formula Atlantic engine in 1970, followed by the and variants for SCCA club racing and sports car racing.

This, in fact, was an authentic model of John Morton's 300 bhp BRE-Datsun 240Z which won the 1970 and 1971 SCCA class C / P championships.

It ran for only one racing season, in 1970, after which it was outlawed by the Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA ).