- Bill Ford took a rare 1964.5 Mustang Indy Pace Car to Jay Leno's Garage.
- This is the actual car that paced the field for the 1964 Indianapolis 500.
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To meet the speed requirements for a pace car, it was fitted with a detuned engine from the Mark I Ford GT40 race car.
The earliest Ford Mustangs are considered 1964.5 models, since they went on sale in April 1964 at the same time the car debuted. One was famously sold a couple of days before the official reveal, but it didn't have anywhere near the horsepower of the pony car featured here. That's because it has a detuned Ford GT40 engine under the hood, installed so it could pace the field at the 1964 Indianapolis 500.
