Any one else wonder why the web site's top banner has all the post-64 photos for a class of 64?

Interesting point. Sound of Silence from 1965. Man on the moon 1969, Woodstock 1969, Looks to be a late sixties Mustang. May or may not be able to change the icons,as it is probably a canned program.

What would be some good visual icons from 1964? 1964 GTO?

While these things didn't all happen in '64, but we did... kind'a, sort'a. 

We burst out on the world, looked around and started making some changes.  I can see a couple of things in that banner that we might have influenced. 

And hey, Baby Boomers are still a powerful force for change. 

Oh, the Ford Mustang... think the first one was in '64 or was it '65.  Well, someone planned it in '64... LOL.  The 1966 Mustang was my first brand new car.  I was living on poor, and I mean poor, wages working for the government in DC.  Drove that little car for about 12 years, how I loved it. 

Linda  

Yes it was a 1964 Mustang.  At the time my dad was selling Fords for Southgate Ford.  He called it a 64 1/2 Mustang.  Never understood the 1/2 part, but I believed him.  It was early into 1965 when I bought one of the 64 1/2  Ford Mustangs.  I also was working my first job and was making a whooping 350.00 a month.  The Mustang was baby blue with white appolstery, and I coughed up enough money for rims and baby moons for it.  I LOVED that car.  My dad felt it such a classy car that he thought a miniature poodle would look nice in it, so he bought me one.  Eventually my Mom kept the dog, and I kept the car.  Still the 1/2 part is a mystery.  If we can get Bruce Minella on here he could probably straighten it out.  His dad owned Southgate at the time, when my dad worked there.

      Karen

I worked for Alan Green twice. 64 1/2 meant an early public sales release  (before fall for an introductory year) of a new model that was meant for early release in the preceding sales year. The "1/2" cars were built in preproduction runs to test and validate/verify the factory tooling and assembly line build procedures/equipment. At  least 50 cars were required to be produced of each new sport model for the model to be road raced in GT sports car competitions in North America and Europe. This is called "homologation". The new '64 Mustang was raced in many international road, rally, drag, and hill climb racing competitions. It was also a marketing ploy release to get a jump ahead of the other manufacturers' release of competitive models like the new Chevy Stingray Corvette and pending Camaro designs that were announced at annual car shows to be driven at Grand Touring race car events. I lived right next to Southgate Ford when the first 64 1/2 Mustangs covered by tarps arrived on transporter trucks. Does that help explain the 64 1/2 model designation? Homologated cars with low vehicle VIN's are very sought after by car collection buyers. We own a COPO (special order) 1969 Camaro HP350 SS coupe that was drag raced into the 1980's against Ford GT Mustangs. Ford Mustang 8-inch and 9-inch rear axels are very popular for use on old Chevy Cars that are set up for drag rcing because of their designed narrow width, parts strength, and ease of changing gear ratios or broken gears at the track. TMI?