Ah, a pic of the homeland....home is where the heart is: some decades have passed since leaving the snow, salt and "cancer" and
I've amassed a 5 Mustang "string" which is totally rust free. In S.
Arizona the "horses" are out in the streets all year long and are
limited only by another "cancer"...the mileage factor in classic
insurance!
Merry Cchristmas from S. Az!
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In the past I've owned 3 K's....6S 008, 6S 744 and
5R09K153803: all 3 are still giving me pangs of
remorse esp 153803 as I owned it twice and the end
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At present I have an overcrowded "horse corral":
1) 1964.5 07 K
2) 1966 09 A
3) 1982 GT T-Top)
4) 1986 SVO
5) 1993 Cobra
6) 1991 Toy 4 Runr
7) 2005 Hyundai Accent
Someday soon, with retirement looming in the near
future, another Mustang or 3 will end up on the
sales block....a very revolting developement!
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Also, a "very early" GT?
Does anybody have troubles with the build date of 28 April 1965 for
a HiPo Mustang????
I have read with interest this whole thread and must
add my .02....
I've been in the Mustang hobby since the mid 70's
and have noted the decline of most repro quality. There
for a while I made do with all original parts but, as
the years have RACED by....where have they gone???....,
that supply has dried up for the most part. If I
remember right, ACC has been THE carpet I've used in my
numerous restorations. My last 09 K, had it for over
15 years and I've rued the day I sold it ever since (that
was 10+ years ago!), was a dream when installing the carpet.
It literally fit like a glove and there was no lack of a thick,
lush, black weave. My present 64.5 07 K was done most of 10
years ago and that carpet was no worse in quality. My last
resto, and I think it WILL be my last, is an 09 A and I'm
now caught up in the crappy fitting, see-thru junk to which
everyone is alluding. What everyone has been going through
are now my problems and I don't want to end my restorations on
s REAL SOUR note! It sure has set my scheduled finish time
aback...and I want to get this 66 fb on the road and enjoy it
before I get too much older.
Keep up the pressure guys!
Fred:
I thought 1 June '64 was the accepted first production
date of K Mustangs; just to know, who is saying 8
June was the first producion date?
I own 5F07K162495, a 10 June production date. What #
was it in the K Mustangs?
Thanks.
I certainly agree that those of us who grew up with the 1st
generation Mustang and those of us who still hang on to
them were/are SO LUCKY to appreciate something so uniquely
part of history. My 64.5 K coupe and 66 A fb are to me as
my Grandfather's '29 Model A was to him: he was SO proud
of that little 2-door coupe and I caught the same feeling
when that first fastback came out!!!!
Since that time the Mustang success road has had a few bumps
and, it seems the last(?) ones are the biggest...there may be a
pun there. The latest, a "beached humpback baby whale", may
be popular with the later generations however, IMHO its too
big and too much a conglomeration of so many lines that it is
lost to me!
As a side note, the financial downward spiral that now holds us
and the world may be too much for a BLOATED Detroit to survive:
BOTH management and the UAW have it in them to pick up their own
industry without having another $25 billion bailout going down
the drain. So with that, there are 2 strikes against Ford and
the name Mustang may well join history and come to an end.
IF that happens, it will be a SAD day; not so much for the latest
design but for bringing down the original, simple and simply gorgeous first model years!
Is your K a '65 or an on-the-cusp '64.5; alternator correct, '64.5 engine compartment horns or '65 front radiator? I've got a 10 June 1964 Dearborn born 07K so I was just curious.
And 50 miles north of SF, could that be Santa Rosa? That was my old hometown back in the '50/'60's ending with a junior year at Montgomery HS.
Good luck on the sale!
I got it too....someone fishing for scam victims<img src=images/icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>.
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Real sorry about your failure! The way Ford engine
parts are going for now, it's not going to be cheap
to get it going again....
I don't have any data but, I had my 5-bolt 289 K
rebuilt with the bores +.030 and once the outside
temp was 95+, cooling was barely marginal. Had to
use a 3-core high efficiency radiator which should
be run with the hotter running 302/5.0 retrofit
engines. Still runs a bit warmer than normal but,
cooling is better. My thots are one or more of the
bores has spots approaching min thickness and the
water jacket is super heating, steaming at that point.
Those spots would be the best place where cracks, fails
originate. That doesn't totally negate the fact that
it might have been unrelated to bore thickness, just
a metal failure.
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Would the complete PN's be C4ZA 6A030-B (R) and
6C041-B (L) for the saddles? Among all my spare
parts as well were 2 insulators but not the upper
and lower pieces. Guess I'd be searching for the
proverbial needle-in-the-haystack to complete this
set.
64.5 07K has the correct original mounts thanks to
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I'm in total agreement, and Ford is getting their cut
from quite a few none-to-concours parts. It MIGHT
show what Ford is really after....a money grab, not
so much interest in keeping the old Mustangs on the
road.
With this in mind, I think we should be showing
our wholehearted support to those good vendors who
supply us and who are struggling to keep the name
"Mustang" in their company title.
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OOPS!...
NPD owned up to have nothing even close to
concours, just a bent piece of strap iron with a
round hole instead of an octagon hole for the brake
line fitting.
The search is still on....
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My bad, Brant!
I just found the billing from Mustangs Unltd. with
the rear brake line bracket included. Your order,
including the 66 AM/FM radio--what a beaut!!!!,
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Your standing as an excellent vendor is hereby
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Ned<img src=images/icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>
Tucson, Az.
Thank you for the quick come-back. NPD it is.
Past experience with Viginia Mustang led me to them
and I will be even more carefull in the buying of
repro parts from now on. I could have made the
pre-bent piece of strap iron they sent me: it even
had a round hole which would have made it more
dificult to tighten the connection at that point.
They did credit me for the price when I voiced my
displeasure in a phone call. Oh well, live and learn.
Again, thanks!
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Might anyone have an extra, original brake line
bracket which terminates the front-to-rear brake line:
it's located outboard of the driver muffler body mount.
Am changing a transverse single mufflered A-code '66
fb to a dual muffler setup.
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Have had the Pertronix replacement for the dual pt.
setup in my K more than 8 years and the only hicup
was when the "+" Pertronix wire to the distr. popped
off 300+ miles from home on a Sunday afternoon
following a car show.....everything went QUIET except
my mumbling, anong other things, "now what?" The fiz
was to squeeze the pop-on cnn and press it firmly back
into place.
With the combination of the Pertronix and the bolt-in
5-speed T-5, that old HiPo gives me almost 25 mpg...
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peep! Any louder and my 3 thomits will jump into
hunting mode....!
In S. Korea, 70-71, we had the same saying but we
shortened it to S.A.T...almost like text messaging
now.
Thanks for getting back to me. I'll have to see if
the address will find the old hulks resting place.
Do you still have the drivetrain/parts of it: I
suspect you've put it to use by now or sold it?
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64.5 07K
65Rangoon:
Not even a peep from you....Gerald said you might
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I've run into a part problem with Mustangs Unltd. lately when I needed a dual exhaust brake line body bracket. Their price was $5.95
and what they sent me was an 1/8" thick, 1 1/8" wide strap with a
round hole for the brake line connector hold down. I immediately
called them and said I was sending back their "bracket" and wanted
my money back as I could have made the same thing for pennies and
wouldn't be any farther from original than their part. Got my money
back AND the part as it would have cost them more to ship it back
than it was worth. At least they were ok with realizing some of their parts aren't close to original!
Charles, other than a junkyard of classics, where can I get the above
bracket to change my V-8 single, crosswise muffler to a true
dual muffler with the full length dual muffler brake line?
Thanks for any source.
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