Just a few days after asking you for help to discover the mystery of a mid-engine Mustang styling prototype, Ford seems to have found the answer they were looking for. That’s according to a report from Jalopnik, speaking with Ford Archives manager Ted Ryan.

It started with a series of old photographs showing a mid-engine, mostly bodyless Mustang from 1966. Nobody seemed to recall what it was, though it was numbered in the photo, which should have lead to some sort of record.

Turns out the reason the designers didn’t remember this car is that it came from the engineering department. It was a mockup done as a packaging study, the report says, that went to design later on. Once the placement of everything was figured out.

That mocked-up frame, Jalopnik says, was likely where the proportions of the Mach 2 clay model came from, and it could actually be the base of the clay model for the 1967 Mach 2 concept car.

So it was a secret project, worked on after hours and behind closed doors, as an effort to bring a mid-mount Mustang to market. One that would see the light of day as a concept car, but would never see production. We’re not sure we could imagine a world with a mid-engined Mustang, but it would certainly have changed the pony car world back in 1967.

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