As the countdown continues to the grand opening of the LeMay - America's Car Museum next April, and as a select few cars are already being transferred to the new facility, many more vehicles in the LeMay collection still sit in a warehouse-like setting, literally stacked one atop another, awaiting their day in the spotlight. John Lloyd, a.k.a. Hugo90, attended the collection's open house a few months ago and has been sharing photos from that day ever since on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool. One of the more bizarre cars he alerted us to was this 1967 Ford Mustang.

The story of the Mustang appears rather convoluted. Despite the Shelby schnozz on the car, it began life as a rather ho-hum San Jose-built Mustang hardtop coupe, fitted with a 200hp two-barrel 289-cu.in. V-8. (Shelby only built one documented coupe in 1967 - a G.T.500 nicknamed Lil' Red which served as the inspiration for the Ford Mustang GT/CS.) At some point in its history, it and a 1968 Shelby G.T.350 ended up in the hands of a Californian named Lindle Willey, who spent a considerable amount of effort installing a joystick control system in both cars. In the G.T.350, it was merely added on - the stock steering wheel and pedals remained in place - but in the Mustang, the joystick system entirely replaced the stock steering system and pedals. At the same time, Willey installed in both cars "advance communication systems" that consisted of a few television screens, a phone and, apparently, a way for the joystick control system from the G.T.350 to control the Mustang as well.

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