As great as this commercial is as a standalone ad, it's original placement was a genius move in terms of marketing.

This commercial aired at the end of an episode of a TV show called American Dreams that ran commercial free, except for this particular Ford ad. The show was set in the early/mid 1960s and in this particular episode the son of the main family on the show just returns from Viet Nam and his dad gives him a brand new Mustang. The tie in was, from a marketing standpoint, epic. Couldn't have been more perfectly done.