By the time Mecum Indy reaches its Thursday run on May 14, 2026, the Indiana State Fairgrounds should already feel like a place where the familiar and the unexpected share the same spotlight. The auction will have the headline muscle cars, famous nameplates, and high-dollar attention grabbers, but some of the best stories may come from Ford’s stranger corners.
That is where this group gets interesting. These are not seven versions of the same collector-car idea. They stretch from the brass-era Model T to a Fox-body Mustang pace car, from prewar Ford shapes to a Yamaha-powered sport sedan that still catches people off guard.
That spread says a lot about Ford history. One company can produce a car that helped put America on wheels, a compact convertible that arrived just before the Mustang boom, a humble-looking family sedan with a serious performance engine, and a Boss Mustang built for people who wanted muscle without apology…