Ford Mustang is celebrating its 50th anniversary atop the Empire State Building. Ford has assembled a 2015 convertible on the deck of the building for public viewing.
CNET said planning the exercise took about six weeks during which the crew made trials to try and fit the car's disassembled parts through an elevator's three-foot door opening on the 86th floor of the building. The crew had less than six hours to assemble the car before unveiling it to visitors on Tuesday.
"The deck is too high to reach with a portable crane from the street, and the spire that towers more than 400 feet above that narrow deck makes helicopter delivery impossible," CNET quoted George Samulski, Ford North America design fabrication manager saying.
According to CBS New York, the year was 1964 when Ford Mustang debuted and a year later engineers did the first assembly stunt atop the Empire State Building's deck. The publicity stunt was repeated this time around and people will have until April 18 to check out the 2015 model.
"The observation deck is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m., leaving our crew of six with only a six-hour window to get everything out onto the deck and get the car assembled," Dave Pericak, Mustang chief engineer was quoted saying by CBS New York.
Mashable said the exercise this time is exactly similar to the last exercise nearly 50 years ago. The pieces have to be taken to the 86th floor in the elevator and assembled there. The only difference is there are more pieces this time.
The car is actually bigger, longer and wider than what it was in 1965. Remember, the Empire State Building is exactly how it was 50 years ago, we have a significant challenge," Mustang's program manager Prakash Patel told Mashable.
