This is in response to Mike's question "what's wrong with Pintos" on the previous Daytona Coupe thread, and the Pinto Man can weigh in with more to say.  My thoughts are that other than the gas tank issue they were the right car at the right time as far as Ford sales were concerned.  A million sales over ten years can't be wrong. 

I will step up further and say that I think even more significantly the Mustang II was even more the right car, literally Lee Iaccoca's second act of taking a base compact platform and dressing it in a body that could produce big profits on options and style, and at a time when business was tougher and Ford really needed it.  He was the marketing genius of the age, or at the very least the executive backer of the marketing geniuses within the company. 

At a parking lot near my work is now sitting a clean white Mustang II Cobra II fastback, with blue stripes.  I drove past to look at it with the Charlie's Angels theme ringing in my head, a 1977 vision all the way, the only thing missing was Farrah Fawcett behind the wheel.  I should see if it is for sale.........