Ford Mustang 1968 GT Fastback

This Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT Fastback carries twelve MCA National Titles and two National Grand Championships — an unusually decorated record for a car that, in period, actually sold worse than the plain hardtop. 1968 was a pivotal year for the GT, with a mid-year Cobra Jet engine option and new safety features arriving almost unannounced. Here’s what made this particular model year, and this particular car, stand out.

The ULTIMATE 1968 Mustang GT Fastback in beautiful Highland Green. This is the 12 time MCA National Title winner and 2 time National Grand champion!!!

A car doesn’t rack up twelve national titles and two Grand Championships by accident — especially not a Mustang competing against thousands of other restored examples chasing the same trophies. This Highland Green fastback earned that record the hard way, but its real story starts a lot earlier, back in 1968 when Ford was quietly making changes to the Mustang GT that most buyers barely noticed at the time. A new engine option arrived mid-year almost without fanfare. A handful of safety features showed up that hadn’t existed the year before. And despite all that, the fastback body style — the one now associated with icons like this exact car — actually sold worse than the plain hardtop.

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The Engine That Arrived Mid-Year

The base GT started 1968 with the 289 cubic-inch C-code V8 at 195 horsepower through December 1967, before the 302 (F-code at 230 hp, J-code at 250 hp) took over. The 390 S-code delivered 325 horsepower and 427 lb-ft, but the 428 Cobra Jet R-code didn’t arrive until April 1968 — a genuine mid-model-year option that transformed the GT‘s performance overnight.

Safety Features Nobody Asked For, But Got Anyway

1968 also brought a two-spoke energy-absorbing steering wheel, newly required shoulder belts, front and rear side marker lights, and C-stripe graphics, plus standard front disc brakes, a handling suspension package, and heavy-duty shocks that made the GT meaningfully safer and more controllable than its immediate predecessor.

The Fastback That Sold Worse Than the Hardtop

Despite the swept roofline and extra trunk space that make the 2+2 body style so collectible today, Ford only moved 42,325 fastback units in 1968 — fewer than the notchback hardtop. That gap makes surviving, well-preserved, multi-title-winning examples like this one considerably rarer than their reputation suggests.

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