Posts by CharlesTurner

The cluster would be the least of my worries! Definitely a '65 body car though.

I'm kind of in the same situation. My '65 K fastback is probably a good 3-4 years before I could find time to paint and reassemble it. Have a local friend that's been trying to talk me out of it and I just might take him up on it. There's always going to be more cars available when the timing is better.

Hopefully someone looks at this one closely:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/…em=160529472559

Isn't there a reproduction available? I thought that it was reproduced for Galaxie's?

You will significantly depreciate the value of a 64.5 K code by changing the wiring system.

I didn't intend to disregard catalog parts as worthy of being used, they certainly have a place, but if I restore original control arms and someone else has Moog and we both call our cars "restored", who's right?

Haven't seen that before. The Spectra tanks are about the best that can be bought now.

Quote from SixT5HiPo

Since the idea of the cost of restoration vs the (resale) value after a restoration is completed is mentioned above, I wonder how that affects the outcome for the majority of those with "standard" Mustangs without the 289 High Performance option. A restoration cost for any 65-67 Mustang is likely to be similar no matter what drive train or body style is involved. Naturally, restoration costs will be different considering that each case varies depending on the specific details involved, who does the work, etc...

I've found the meaning of "restoration" to vary greatly. A high percentage of the restorations being done are with natural appearance paints, catalog parts and replacement sheet metal. The end results are all over the place in workmanship, yet the term "restoration" is so loosely applied.

Quote from jwc66k

I've stripped a lot of cars over the years, almost all makes, many different models, and a coupe of "K" hartops were included. The usable parts were sold to the guys with the money. I think that's still the way it works. Do I feel bad? No. Most of those cars were beyond drivability and certainly a restoration at that time would have been out of the question. Keep in mind that Mustangs in the mid 60's to the mid 70's were designed and built to be a car with a ten year life span. So were all the others in that era. You got to learn to live with it. Rapist or pillager? I prefer capitalist pirate.

Jim

That's kinda how I feel about it. Ford made a crapload of these cars.

If it has 302 cast in it, then definitely a 302 head.

That's for a cast-iron water pump and usually comes already installed on the pumps.

There wasn't an emberglow GT stripe available from the factory, so if you're seeing something close to red, then it was plain red.

NJ cars usually have a build sheet taped to the main wiring harness behind the instrument cluster.

GT stripes (were decals), were usually color-coordinated to the interior, so I can see where a red stripe might have been original. The car might have had a white top originally, are you sure it was black?

The A/C was either dealer or previous-owner installed. I would remove it during the restoration process and fix the holes in the radiator support and firewall. Rally-pac is an easy fix to the '66 style.

Hard to give a value, you didn't say if it was running and driving.

Try Bob at Qual-Krom, http://www.qualkrom.com

They are in Erie, PA.

It's a strange color combination. If you're looking to flip it, you may or may not have a hard time selling it. As far as putting restoration $$ into it, it depends on what your final goal is. Give us some more information about your intentions.

So you're saying there were no USS stencils used on 65-66 gas tanks?

If using steel wool, avoid swirling by keeping the pad straight back and forth.

While the registry portion of the site has been lacking in updates, I think the forum section has been a valuable discussion area for those of us with these cars.

I would also like to know what the status of the registry is. It might be in the best interest to hand over the site to someone else capable of putting more time into it.

+1 on zray's response. You can easily damage the box by incorrectly adjusting the top stud.

There is actually reference throughout Ford documentation that refers to 1965 1/2 models... which I assume is the intro of the GT package and interior decor in Spring of '65.

I've never seen anything official from Ford about this. The only source I can think of is someone looked at the data from the In Search Of Mustangs book and drew their own conclusions. The important thing to know about this book is that the authors could not possibly have verified each and every car. Therefore, what you see in there has to be taken with a grain of salt. I would suspect that put under scrutiny, any "GT" in that book with a build date in the Feb. '65 time period would most likely not be legit. As we all know, it is very common for owners to "upgrade" their car with GT option components. It is my belief that other than a few prototypes or special promotion cars, real factory-line production of '65 GT's didn't start until probably mid to late March '65.