Basically because Chrysler was more bitchin than Ford, Chevy or AMC.

"misinterpret." how?

Is that car one of the Hurst prep rental prep Shelby 350 GT cars sold by the rental company to the public the next year after they came out?
I was offer one by one of the Hurst rental agents in the San Franscico airport in 1967 while I was in the Army and of course I couldn't afford it, let alone make arrangements for financing it

Cab, no my mustang was not a hertz car. It was a former street car prepared by a guy in upstate NY for road racing around 1970-71. It led a hard life, passing through a number of hands before I bought it. The car Raced at Mosport and Watkins Glen in the early 1970’s in both A/S and B/P. I pulled it out of a North Carolina junkyard in 1996 and rebuilt it in my garage in CT. I got it back on the track in 2000 following 4 years of work. . My middle son now has it in TX… and it will be staying in the family. That car went out, and a RB 496 ‘Cuda came in.

My dad rented a Hertz GT-350 while on a business trip in period. He told me it drove like a truck, but a very fast truck. The fast ratio steering box was/is a muscle builder.