65-65 K production Breakdown

jeller68 · January 4, 2010 at 10:27 AM

Since there are no Marti reports for 65-66.Does anyone know the breakdown for the K's in these years, Coups, Fastbacks, Verts ?

1965 – 7,273 of the 680,989 of the Mustangs built (1.0%)

1966 – 5,469 of the 607,568 of the Mustangs built (0.9%)

1967 – 489 of the 472,121 of the Mustangs built (0.1%)

3 Year Total = 13,214 of the 1,760,678 Mustangs produced (.75% less than 1.0%)

Edited by - SixT5HiPo on 01/15/2010 00:54:27

65Rangoon_old · January 4, 2010 at 2:50 PM

As I recall, while there is a breakdown of the total cars produced by year within each body style, there are no data breakouts available for the number of K-kars built by year/body style.

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jeller68 · January 4, 2010 at 3:23 PM

So of the 7273 K Cars produced in 1965. There is no documentation on how many fastbacks ?

Anywhere ?

CharlesTurner · January 4, 2010 at 3:47 PM

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So of the 7273 K Cars produced in 1965. There is no documentation on how many fastbacks ?

Anywhere ?

No reliable figures known at this point, sorry.

jeller68 · January 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM

I wonder if Ford distroyed these documents.

I guess Kevin Marti would have bought the rights to these if they were available.

Well I guess my 65 K Fastback is Priceless.....

LOL

CharlesTurner · January 4, 2010 at 5:42 PM

The Ford data for 65-66 was disposed of a long time ago. You can extrapolate the other data figures and come up with what you think might be a guess, but that's all it would be. Suffice to say there weren't that many K codes.

Rocket · January 4, 2010 at 5:58 PM

Has anyone ever seen or heard of a further breakdown of the 65 year model K code cars? i.e. How many 64.5 Ks were produced?

65Rangoon_old · January 4, 2010 at 6:43 PM

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Has anyone ever seen or heard of a further breakdown of the 65 year model K code cars? i.e. How many 64.5 Ks were produced?

I know of no such breakdown relative to the number of '64-1/2' cars produced. I think as far as Ford was concerned, from April 17 thu to the start of the 66 models year, all of the first production run were '65 models. I believe we rabid Mustangers are the ones who coined the 64 1/2 identifier for those early cars that had generators. I expect from Fords point of view, going to an alternator (and other mechanical improvements) was simply a running engineering change.

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CharlesTurner · January 4, 2010 at 8:41 PM

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I believe we rabid Mustangers are the ones who coined the 64 1/2 identifier for those early cars that had generators. I expect from Fords point of view, going to an alternator (and other mechanical improvements) was simply a running engineering change.

I've heard that the 64 1/2 term got started by Ford Parts Managers once they realized just about everything was different between a generator and alternator car.

silverblue_old · January 6, 2010 at 11:08 AM

Other than the special Indy 500 Pace car K-codes, the earliest regular production K kar date i've seen is June 8' 64.

With the 65 model year/alternator cars beginning in early August that makes for a "production year" that was all of about 7 weeks long.

just knowing that you can imagine how few 64 1/2 K kars were ordered & produced.

CharlesTurner · January 6, 2010 at 11:52 AM

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Other than the special Indy 500 Pace car K-codes...

Those cars were built on the assembly line as F code 260 convertibles.

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