Gallery: The Evolution of the Mustang's Pony Badge

The pony is certainly an American icon.

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The Ford Mustang is certainly one of America's best known and best loved cars, and Ford knows this. That's why the company puts together histories like this one, which details the birth and evolution not of the whole car, but of the just the logo and badge. While it may seem trivial, a car with a bad name or badge really does suffer. If the Mustang had been called something else it very well might have just been a footnote in automotive history, and the badge represents that name. 

It's not a Ford Lipizzaner, it's a Mustang, and here is how that running pony came to be.

The Original Sketches

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The Cougar

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Left or Right?

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Charles Keresztes Sclupts the Pony

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The Final Sculpt

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The First Corralled Pony

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The Chess Knight

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Which way do horses race?

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It's a Wild Horse

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The Final Product

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The Front Fender Pony

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The Fuel Cap Pony

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The Mustang II

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The Return of the Pony

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Special Editions

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The 2010 'Roid Pony

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