mustang 1

Like most of us I have had a lot of time for reading. I think the original Mustang prototype was the idea for the X19, the engine is the other way around but otherwise very similar.
Also I have been reading about Frederick Lanchester. He seems to have been first with everything, a man and his brothers well worth reading about. One of his early cars even had the same placement of lights the Fiat speedster runabout had but doubling as air intakes for its air cooled engine.
I am learning how to spray paint the hard way with rattle cans. The weather is perfect for it and I have time.

Respectfully I disagree, the X was designed around the engine from the 128 to produce a mid engined sports car. There are documentaries and many articles on the design. I think Bertone would be rightfully upset by your statement.

Hi, think you might be onto something with the Mustang 1 prototype - really early and apparently widely known in the auto design world at the time.
The big deal with the Exxy is that it's so pretty and it got to be successfully mass produced.

From the web.....
Roy Lunn was put in charge as product planner for building the car. His racing car design experience together with his engineering really brought the concept to life.[5] Lunn, working with Herb Misch as the project engineer, "designed the chassis to accommodate four-wheel independent suspension, rack and pinion steering, and front disc brakes."[2][4][6] A lightweight and dimensionally small German Ford Cardinal 1,500 cc 60 degree V4 engine powered the Mustang I. [Note 1] The front-wheel-drive powertrain from Ford Germany's mainstream Cardinal/Taunus sedans was mounted directly behind the cockpit with the engine and 4-speed transmission in a common housing with an axle and conventional clutch