Posts by CharlesTurner

I talked to Allen Stewart today about that car. He said when it left his hands, it was totally stock concours. Now as you can see, the shock towers have been cut out and a MII rack and pinion put in it. In addition to several other mods visible in the pics. I don't have a problem with people doing what they want with their cars, but in my opinion, they totally screwed up that car cutting the shock towers out. There are plenty of other more common cars that could have had this done. I surely hope the final bid reflects the damage done to this car.

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Not really, if two cars were made with the same options and colors, then it was 1 of 2.

I've seen very very few Marti reports that end in 1 of 1.

Quite the contrary to what I have seen. If you have seen the Elite report, Kevin always will sort it out so the car is one of one. It just depends on what context you use. The Shelby convertible that I take care of has an Elite report. To get it to the 1 of 1, the final line was "1 sent to the southeast... this is that car"

Of course, the basic/deluxe reports do not break out the numbers like that, so you won't get the 1 of 1 thing.

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I believe the pony interior and GT also added. All in all, a nice K conv., not 100% Korrect, but still a nice car.

Pony interior and GT most definitely have been added, the scheduled build date is too early for either.

Very nice car, but they didn't have to add pony or GT stuff to it. It would have been a perfectly nice car without that.

The cross brace has to be removed, the starter and then just unbolt the idler arm from the frame and it will allow you enough room to wiggle the pan out.

wal-mart or target has door mirrors. you can make props for them from wood blocks.

You have to drive the pin all the way through, into the shaft. Or, get a cut-off tool and slice it off.

I believe it was around $500-600 last time I had it done. Been almost 2 years since the last one. Actually did 2 within a few months of the other.

I've sleeved 289 engines before with no trouble. Yes, you can go back to std. bore, but keep in mind that sometimes standard size pistons are a little harder to come by, especially in high-performance versions. I stroked a 302 to a 331 2 years ago, had the block sleeved to std. bore. The company that I bought the stroker kit from said std. size pistons would be custom order and would have been quite pricey. Ended up punching the sleeves to .030

It sounds like a nice car with nice options.

Don't take the statistical analysis from the Marti report too seriously. Every Mustang is somehow a 1 of 1 car. The main number you need to be concerned with is that there were 43 C4 equipped '67 K coupes. That number itself is downright rare.

The grille in the pic from the 40th looks black. They might have changed it since then, hard to tell from the auction website pics. I'm sure the car will do very well at auction.

Usually, 65 are either Autolite or FoMoCo with FoMoCo being used first. '66 is usually Autolite.

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Unfortunately, you did not list a price.

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4 posts down in the K Mustangs section you will see he put a price of $53k obo on the K convertible. Sounds reasonable if the car is as nice as he says.

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CT... In Unrestored class would dealer installed options be correct like, say 3x2?

Gary

It would be more acceptable if you had dealer documentation to show when it was installed. Otherwise, you will have to accept more scrutiny from the judges.

Well, they do say that they have judging sheets available as provenance, but they do not elaborate. For all we know, the judging sheets could be 15 years old and based on old rules. When I typed up my Russo/Steele advertisement text, I made sure to note that the car was a 2005 Concours Gold winner.

You would think for that price it would have the correct type rubber-backed trunk mat instead of a cheap cloth-backed repro. Makes you wonder what other shortcuts might have been made.

Did anyone notice that they used a '66 engine wiring harness? The car was built around Feb '65 so it would have the 2 speed heater switch with 3 wire motor. You can see the heater motor wires not plugged in and a hint of the yellow wire used on later '65 and '66.

The car is probably worth close to the asking price, but it would take a lot of work to detail it for show (if you wanted to do that). There are most definitely better ones, contrary to the sellers statement.

Not sure if them adding the GT package and pony interior would detract from the value or not. The overall appearance is very nice.

I hope they don't consider the 40th anniversary concours award anything special. We did a 5 minute walkaround on each car, extremely abbreviated judging.

I don't recall the car. Would be interested in seeing the judging sheets and who judged it and when/where.

BTW, the car is in the registry: 5F08K748826

Looks like it has a decent run spot, about 5pm on Saturday. I think the GT convertible I sold there last year ran around 3:30. There were lots of people there. I'd wager that this car will most definitely break my record of $66k.

It's a repro plate, but at least it's a nice one. Obviously the GT package and deluxe interior were added as both items were not available when the car was made. Overall, looks like a really nice car. I suspect the color might be the midnight turquoise T-bird color.