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Five decades ago, Ford placed a Mustang on top of the Empire State Building, one of the world's most famous attractions, and now for the car's 50th anniversary they've performed the same feat once again. Today, the legendary roadster is four inches wider and seven inches longer, so transporting it to the top of the building was even more difficult. See photos below!

To achieve this act, a technical team carefully disassembled a special display Mustang, "cutting" the car in just the right places to create sections that were taken up elevators on custom-made racks. Once everything…

In the mid to late '60s, directors began placing cameras on and inside of cars to make viewers feel like they were right in the middle of the action. Fast forward five decades later and many of these first-person perspective tricks are still being utilized. For example, in the recently released film "Need for Speed," director Scott Waugh opted for close-up, high-intensity car scenes and real stunts, many of which were performed in the new Ford Mustang.

For the movie, which hit theaters on Mar. 14, Waugh used seven modified 2014 Mustangs and an early prototype of the 2015 Ford…