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Art Cairo spent his career spanning decades with Ford Motor Company as a manufacturing engineer, originally with Ford Tractor in Romeo, Michigan, and later on in Vehicle Operations at Ford’s Pilot Plant in Allen Park just south of Dearborn. Art’s primary responsibility was new-production launches at Ford assembly plants.
These prototype fog lights wouldn’t become production items for another year.
This fastback was 721789, ordered for and delivered to Edsel Ford II. This explains the owner’s manual in the glove box of 100148.
You can imagine the excitement felt by Edsel Ford II in 1965 when he took possession of this one-off GT fastback. It was unlike any other Mustang fastback ever built.