snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (Brent P) wrote in news:GY6dnbDjM_tQJlrYnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:
According to the book 'Mustang - 40 Years' by Randy Leffingwell, Hertz initially ordered 1000 cars from Ford for the "Rent-A-Racer" program. Hertz wanted all the cars with automatics and radios, but the first 85 had manuals.
The first 200 cars (including the 85 manual transmission cars) were black w/gold stripes, but the next 230 cars were a mixture of red, green, blue, and white, all with gold stripes. Hertz then specified that the remainder be delivered as black w/gold stripes. Also, none of the cars had roll bars.