Stanley Tucker

Captain Stanley Tucker (May 12, 1931 – June 10, 2008) was a Canadian airline pilot for Eastern Provincial Airways of Newfoundland, Canada.

Before the car officially hit the sales floor on April 17, 1964, thousands of Mustangs had already been rolling off the assembly line for the previous five weeks and getting shipped out to dealerships all over.

On April 13, 1964, Tucker was driving past the Ford dealer when he noticed a big crowd in the dealership on introduction day and stopped in to see what the commotion was about.

Tucker persuaded his young salesman, Harry Phillips, to break street date and make it available three days before April 17, when Ford officially released Mustang to the world.

"[2] Once it became known a couple of weeks later that Mustang Number One had been inadvertently sold, Ford officials reached out to Tucker to try to buy it back.

This time, Ford offered Tucker a worthy trade: in exchange for returning Serial Number One, he could have the One-Millionth Mustang free of charge, equipped to his specifications.

Tucker traveled to Dearborn, Michigan, where Ford wined and dined him in the company of executives such as Lee Iacocca and Don Frey.

After taking delivery of the Millionth Mustang early in 1966, Tucker pressed it into daily use in all kinds of weather, including nasty[further explanation needed] Canadian winters.

Mustang Serial Number One is the first Mustang produced. It was sold to Stanley Tucker of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada on April 14, 1964, and is a 1965 model.