The Falcon, which premiered in 1960, was Robert S. McNamara’s car, completely utilitarian, no bells or whistles and available only in solid colors. As one automobile reporter wrote, “He wears granny glasses and puts out a granny car.” Nevertheless, by building the Mustang on the Falcon’s chassis, in the first two years, it generated net profit of $1.1 billion (in 1964 dollars), far in excess of what GM had made on the Corvette. The average customer was spending another $1,000 on options, and while Ford projected that 75,000 units would be sold in the first year, the 418,812th Mustang was sold on April 16, 1965, only 13 months after the first rolled off the assembly line. By comparison, the Corvette reached 1 million in sales in July 1992, with the release of a white convertible with red interior, mimicking the first one