The second generation of the model arrived on the market with a four-month delay, following a strike of the United Auto Workers in 1967. Ford did not market it as a 1967 or 1968 model year.

Needing to get back to basics after the Mustang II, Ford engineers also had to deal with a second gas crisis that would hit in 1979. The result was the third-generation Mustang, known popularly as ...