Posts by DJames_old

You could check with a user here that goes by boss1.He lives in Madison and would know what he's looking at.

As the topic says, I need a nov 64 hipo fan.I'd be perfectly happy to either buy it outright or, if your car needs something, work out a swap for something.TIA

Might as well throw my two cents worth in.We've got a 65 GT, 4-speed, A/C, pony interior coupe with 62,000 actual miles, original window sticker in the shop with a june 15 build date that has the clamp with the tab.The car has a duralast battery in it, but the clamp was still mounted correctly.It just wasn't clamping anything.

The window isn't really as small as it probably looks.Ford was running behind schedule quite a bit on the 65s.They had no idea that the mustang would hit as hard as it did.The beat their target of '417 by 417' (417,000 sold by april 17, 65)by a substantial margin.I've got one car that had a build date of june 4th, 64 and everything is stamped mid to late may.I've got another one that the build date is aug 12, 64 and everything is stamped late aug to mid sept.I just recently went through a deal that ended up with me swapping the original fan from that car for one that is correct for that car.<img src=images/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>Your car probably didn't actually roll out the door until late jan to early feb.

Edited by - DJames on 05/19/2006 23:05:26

The vin is stamped on the passenger side of the block,towards the front, right above the oil pan.You are probably going to hear all sorts of things about whether or not they were all stamped. All that I can say is that 30 years ago it was common knowledge that they were all vin stamped.It is possible that 3 or 4 slipped through the cracks and got missed, but it is highly unlikely that the father of the modern assembly line handled something like this in a way slip-shod enough to boil down to however the guy on the line wanted to play it on a given day.These were very expensive motors and Ford knew that evrybody that bought one was going to try just as hard as they could to blow it up as quickly as possible, so they wanted that number on there for warranty purposes.Many people were successful at blowing up their motors.Now we have a bunch of thirty year old guys that know for a fact that the motor has never been out of their forty year old car and, since it isn't vin stamped, not all of them were vin stamped.What they actually know for a fact about the first twenty years of that car's life is nothing, with the possible exception of who the original owner was.They've heard this, they've been told that and they believe it, but they don't know for sure anything.I have seen some that were stamped so faintly that you had to have the block out on a table with good light shining on it from just the right angle to make it out, but it was there.