Either God is a Ford fan or even God doesn’t want a Mustang II
Devastation swept through Nashville and the surrounding Tennessee counties earlier last week and, like many unfortunate acts of mother nature there are a few uncommon survivor stories like how this Mustang stayed untouched. According to Tennessee Tornado survivor Jonathan Medlin, his good friends Ford Mustang Cobra II, which sat in a barn for over 10 years, survived an F3 level tornado that made its way through this Mt. Juliet neighborhood.
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The Nashville tornadoes were a series of large tornadoes that touched down all over the center of Tennessee that not only destroyed whole neighborhoods, took out businesses, and cut the power to thousands,but also took the lives of at least two dozen with hundreds of reported injuries.
As mentioned, this Tornado landed in Mt. Juliet, a city about 20 minutes east of Nashville. It’s hard to make out in this photo, but the tornado razed several buildings with a handful still standing, several of those with damage.
This property had a barn with a Ford Mustang II Cobra tucked inside, parked for more than a decade. The barn did its job, protecting this piece of American muscle from God’s wrath, even keeping the decade old dust untouched.
Although most would agree this is a miracle, some in the original Facebook post aren’t being so positive about their comments saying, “What’s the big deal, it’s just a Mustang II.”
If you didn’t already know, the second gen Mustang, introduced during the Oil Embargo of the 1970s, is more hated than loved today. Built on a modified Ford Pinto platform and with an 88 HP four-cylinder base engine, some purists don’t even consider this gen Mustang to be an actual piece of Detroit Muscle.
When the Mustang II was first introduced, it was a sales success, selling 386,000+ Mustangs in 1974. Only after the Oil Embargo and the return of cheap oil did Americans crave a more powerful Mustang. Simply put, the Mustang II with just an optional V6 wouldn’t do. That’s why in 1975 Ford threw a V8 the Mustang II’s way.
But, viewed through the lens of the kinds of Mustangs we have today, there are more haters than fans of this gen.
This Mustang is a Cobra edition, nothing more than a $325 package that added some spoilers, a grille, stripes, and a hood scoop.
Farrah Fawcett also famously used a Cobra II in Charlie’s Angels.
Mustang’s have a knack for surviving Tornadoes. This Mustang survived, just barely, when a Tornado tore through Oklahoma back in 2013.
And when a tornado tore through Simla, Colorado two years later, the news caught this 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1 sitting pretty amidst the rubble.
Mustangs, they’re built Ford Tough!
And for the record, I think Mustang IIs are neat and I wouldn’t even mind owning a Lima powered one.
