Posts by DJames_old

I just realized that I still have my email address from several years ago listed as my email address at this site. Ooops. Sorry about that. It is now corrected. And, just so you know, I do intend to put a mark or feature on the side of the brackets that the numbers are on. You wouldn't be able to see it while they are on the car, but, you also wouldn't be able to put them on ebay as originals.

I am currently getting my ducks in a row to reproduce the 65 K code motor mount frame brackets. Unlike most reproduction parts, they will look exactly like the original pieces. They will also have the numbers correctly stamped on them, even though these can't be seen when they are attached to a car/motor. In short, they will be completely indistinguishable from the originals. The production costs and final sale price will hang pretty heavily on the demand. If this is something that you would purchase, I would appeciate it if you let me know. If the demand is sufficient, I will go ahead and get this thing rolling. Thanks for your time.

Sold. Thanks for the responses and thanks, mad4hipos, for posting the pictures for me.

I see that he has changed the description to how it would make a nice wall memorabilia piece.

I have a 4201S fuel pump for sale.It looks like n.o.s. but technically, it isn't. Here's the story. A guy had a hipo that the fuel pump went out on. He replaced it with this one, but, after, having it on the car for 20 or 30 miles, he decided to put an electric fuel pump on the car and pulled this one off of it. I've had it sitting on a shelf, buried under some stuff, for a loooooong time. This past weekend, I put it on a car to make sure that it works. It works fine. The 4201S stamping is very clear and crisp. The date on it is 22A9A. It has both springs. It is the button-top type. Asking $700. Will also consider any interesting trades for Hipo/ Shelby stuff. I have pictures but do not know how to post them here, so my email address is douglasrjames@comcast.net and I will be happy to send them on request, or, if some technologically up-to-date person would be willing to post them here for me, I would be happy to send them.

I have a very nice hipo fan dated A67 I would like to trade for a hipo fan dated L or M 64. My email address is douglasrjames@comcast.net

Sorry about the typo.

Edited by - DJames on 11/02/2007 20:27:02

Edited by - DJames on 11/05/2007 14:17:48

Allow me to make this easy for everybody.<img src=images/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>First, the car is sold, so the rest is purely academic. The car's build date is early april of 65, but no, it is not a factory GT, but then, neither are 90% of the factory GTs out there. The car had both the five dial cluster and that rally pac when it arrived at Forristall's, so we left it in there.The battery has not had it's polarity reversed. I'm not even sure that's possible.It has one of those tops you can just set onto the battery to look like an autolite at a glance and, since the autolites where reverse post batteries and the perfectly good battery that the car had when it arrived is not a reverse post, it looks like the positive battery cable is attached to the negative post. The car does not have it's original motor, but it does have a K code motor, block, heads, rods etc...It just isn't correctly date coded for the car. The coil is on the wrong side because that's where I put it. It is less cluttered that way and since this is not a hundred point show car,that's just how I did it.If the new owner would like to have it on the other side, I would be more than happy to do that for him.Tomorrow I'll be putting red GT stripes on it for him because that's how he wants it to be. There are several things like that which I do to drivers, like put the battery in backwards so that the positive post isn't a hair's width away from the inner fender.This car hasn't been restored to trailered concours standards.If it had been it would have cost significantly more than it did. What it does have going for it is all original, laser straight,rock solid sheet metal, runs and handles well and looks great doing it.There is a lot of new stuff in the interior. You turn the key and it fires right up.No weird noises, no funny vibrations. Everything works. Will it take MCA Gold? Not a chance.Is it loads of fun to drive? Yes, it is.And it will reliably take you where you want to go and yes, it will also bring you back.<img src=images/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>It's a really nice driver.

Edited by - DJames on 02/07/2007 23:48:04

Edited by - DJames on 02/07/2007 23:49:12

Sent you an e-mail.

Yeah, I've seen a bunch of Dearborn cars that the sequential number started with an eight and a couple of nines.They didn't start mustang numbers with a zero, four or five.My point was that the number doesn't just look like a five, it IS a five, and, therefore, Ford did not put that number there. It could be that the person that re-stamped it simply mistook the six that he was looking at on the original panel or the door tag for a five and stamped it wrong, but it was stamped on there by someone other than Ford, which opens up all sorts of intriguing possibilities.

I wonder how happy the new owner will be when he discovers that there weren't any 65 mustangs with sequential numbers starting with a 5? It sure looks like a 5 on that car to me.

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Do you ever stop to think that maybe the owner of the car you are calling "ugly" is reading your post? It has happened in the past.<img src=images/icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>

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The car has been sold.I would like to thank everyone that responded and/or emailed me and I'll let you know when the next one comes up. Thanks again.

For sale. Original red, Lemans stripe delete Hertz car.Very nice paint, real straight and solid body, original sheet metal, vin stamped block, original intake,original breather assembly,runs, drives and looks great.The only things that would keep it from being a show car are that the dreaded Previous Owner installed A/C, power steering and a dual reservoir master cylinder along with a 67 type brake booster and an upgraded ignition system.It's all bolt-on stuff, but the guy bolted on a whole bunch of stuff.Also a 10 disc cd changer mounted in the trunk.Overall a very nice car and a lot of fun drive, a real head turner. As I'm sure most of you are aware, these cars command a high degree of respect in the marketplace these days, so please, serious inquiries only. drjames@houston.rr.com

If you look at some of the cars that will be going through B/J this year it will become pretty obvious that an old mustang isn't anything special.It's just filler to run through at 3 in the morning.I know that they'll be selling Carroll Shelby's Super Snake 427 Cobra, the sister car of the Cosby car, which would amaze me if it brought less than 7 mil.What they care about the authenticity of a 65 Mustang is right around zero.

Theft was a big part of why they stamped these motors.They had a real short warranty period. Some folks weren't above snatching the motor out, putting a blown up 'C' code motor in the car and getting themselves a spare on Ford's dime.Or just to have something to sell.Ford did everything that they could to make these motors bullet proof.If a person came back a few weeks after buying the car wanting a new motor, Ford wanted a way to know that the motor they were replacing was the same motor that they had put in the car.That happened to a bunch of Hertz cars.People would rent them, swap out the motor and then return it.That's why you spend a couple of hours signing off on the presence of every little badge and part on the new ones when you rent one. Hertz figured out what people were doing to them in the 60s.

I guess I mught as well jump in also. From 67 up there is no question about a car being a GT or not.Get the Marti report.Whether or not the car sitting in front of you is the same car that left the factory with that vin is another story,but vin alterations aren't that tricky to spot if a person does their homework. On the 65/66 cars it's a little mre difficult to tell if a K code was also a factory GT. Fortunately there are so few factory GT K codes that if you assume that it is not you will be right 99% of the time.The K code option was A) expensive and came with everything good about the GT package anyway, with the exception of the disc brakes.It would be a rare individual indeed that liked those stripes and the gas cap enough to cough up the extra money for them when he already had the special handling package, 4bbl, dual exhaust and 4 speed tranny.For a long time my stance on that was that if you don't have an original window sticker, build sheet or buck tag then you don't have a factory GT K code, but with the way printing technology has taken off over the last few years even those items aren't a slam dunk anymore.I've seen too many people cut the dash out of a 66 model six cylinder rust bucket, weld up the extra dash pad holes from both sides and grind them flat and put it into their late 65 model A or K code, take a minute with swiss pattern files to turn their foglight wire holes in the radiator core support into 'stamped' holes and presto, they have a factory GT. People assume that the car is bogus because it almost certainly is. It is also possible that I have simply become a little too jaded from having looked at a whole bunch of mustangs over a whole bunch of years.When people are telling me about the car they are trying to sell I don't listen to anything they say.I don't believe it, I don't disbelieve it. I just don't hear it.I'll nod and say 'Really? Cool.' but I'm not even paying any attention to them.I listen to the car, not the guy trying to sell it, but that's just me. When someone tells me that they have just bought a 65/66 factory GT I just congratulate them on the acquisition of that rare and special classic and move on. If he believes that he has a factory GT, then, for all practical purposes, he does.The objective reality doesn't really have any effect on how much he enjoys the car if no one ever tells him.That's why the bogus cars are a lot easier to move then they should be.The buyer wants to believe that he has found that rare bird that he's been searching for and is more than willing to dismiss any inconsistancies as abherations resulting from sloppy manufacturing procedures. As long as people keep buying them like they're real, there will always be that sorry individual that will produce one on demand.

The 65/66 T5s had the evenly spaced bolt holes on the export brace with all of the reinforcement that is typically associated with Shelbys.They also, like the 65/66 Shelbys, did not have the brackets welded to the shock towers for the front end of the cowl braces, since they weren't going to get the cowl braces. That's a much better indicator than the holes in the cowl, since a lot of people don't know that they're supposed to be like that and, consequently, sleep through it and don't remove them. The car should also have the other two holes in the cowl for the regular cowl braces.You can't see them because the export brace covers them but you can reach under there and feel them. You guys with 65 Shelbys should also have those other two holes.

Just for future reference, cchesley, you could have gotten that same clutch from O'Reilly's for about 30 bucks less than John charges. John does that with a lot of stuff.Things like motor mounts, tune-up stuff (points, condensors,rotors),gaskets, suspension parts,etc.. he buys at wholesale from auto parts stores or Tommy Vaughn Ford and marks it up to about 20% over retail. John and I go back a pretty good way.If you go to John's because you also live in the Houston area, there is a place in Katy called Mustang Mania that also sells new and used mustang parts.The difference is that the guy that owns the place, Russell Suggs, is an extremely honest man, and the people that he has working for him actually know a little something about vintage mustangs, as in what part goes where, what it is you actually need and sometimes even some good suggestions on how to go about fixing what ails your car. You don't have to go in there with the same attitude that one would that found himself far behind enemy lines, like at John's. You would not believe some of the stuff that I've had John look me right in the eye and tell me with a straight face.

Overall that looks like a pretty nice car.There's a couple of goofy looking things, like the wrong horns and the D/S fender has been replaced,but it looks nice in the pictures.The P/S valve cover looks like a later year model piece while the D/S looks like the correct one.I wonder what's up with that?<img src=images/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>It could just be some camera weirdness making it look like that.The vin stamping looks like it wandered a little too far rearward.I think I'd want to see that from the bottom side.The car probably got smacked at some point on the D/S and the body shop had to restamp that panel.Overall though,it looks very presentable.

The only other one that I have right now is a July 64, which wouldn't do you a lot of good.Numbers don't scare me a bit, and I have no problem with somebody making a couple of bucks, so let me hear this terrifying number that you have in mind.<img src=images/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>