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Ford : Mustang Coupe 1965 MUSTANG COUPE FROM OKLAHOMA DSO - ORIGINALLY TROPICAL TURQUOISE

$7,500

Monticello, Indiana

"Ran when parked in the barn." Appears to be complete, was blocked up and stored for over twenty-two years, with the tires and wheels removed. Clear Indiana title. A work in progress. If you are looking for a solid tropical turquoise car to restore with an Oklahoma DSO, this is it. The Oklahoma City sales area also included Tulsa the Texas panhandle, including Amarillo and Lubbock, as I understand it. The O code paint was only available on a Mustang this one year. It was not available on the 1964 1/2 cars. According to the ISOM registry, there were only around 70 accounted as the time of the survey about 20 years ago, and that included wrecking yard finds that likely no longer exist. Tropical Turquoise is the only paint name color I can find that General Motors and Ford had in common. You will find many 50's Chevies with it, both cars and trucks. I know, you either love it or hate it, but in my opinion, this Mustang needs to go back to its original tropical color. At present the original tropical is visible under the carpets and in other places that were missed in a later red repaint. Red is what you see it on it today until I can get around to putting it back to O code. Based upon ISOM findings, a tropical turquoise O code paint pony is the least common to survive of the stock factory paint codes used for 1965 on the Mustang except for I (Champaign Beige). It runs about equal with code 7, Phoenician Yellow. [Note: One of the neat things about 60's Fords were the number of special paint orders that could and did take place. Ford colors from other car lines such as Thunderbird or Galaxie could be custom-ordered for a Mustang, and there was a corporate sales chart with a rainbow of one-off colors if you did not find what you liked in the Mustang sales brochures.] As you know, April 17 that just passed was the introduction date for the Ford Mustang back fifty years ago, and the early production had started on March 9, 1964. Cars shipped to dealers were kept under wraps, and it was a nifty introduction, with depowered cars used in the Ford pavillion at the New York World's Fair, and later brought back to the factory, rebuilt, and sold to the public. A car was taken apart and displayed on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, at that time the tallest building in the world. The way the car was introduced created a sensation, and set many standards for subsequent marketing campaigns across multiple product lines. There was a shortage of vehicles available for sale, and waiting lists developed which had not happened in the automobile industry since around 1953, when the "big three" finally caught up with pent-up post war demand that had built while automobile manufacturers had been converted to military production only. Originally produced only at Dearborn, as this car was, two additional plants were converted at least partially to Mustang building to keep up with the buying frenzy, the Edison, New Jersey plant, which is now gone, and the Milpitas, California plant, which has now been converted into a shopping mall [a few rare Mustangs eventually also received final assembly in three other locations...Mexico, Australia, and a handful in Europe]. Today, Mustangs are no long assembled at Dearborn either, but at another suburban location south of Detroit. There have been many books written about the people behind the Mustang at Ford, and the processes that were developed in coming up with the brand and the original design. Ford had just come off a big write-off on the Edsel, and management was not anxious to make another costly mistake. The T-5 program, as it was then called within the Ford inner circles, was finally green-lighted in 1962, and the rest, as they say, is history. Those involved became heroic, often iconic figures. Many have said the development of the middle class in the United States gave rise to the demand for second cars, and others have commented that the GI's coming home from the Korean and World Wars were ready for something new. There were several currents ebbing and flowing in the ocean of car building, one was the muscle car movement, where bigger engines were being stuffed into smaller platforms, like Pontiac's Tempest, which was crammed with horsepower and morphed into a GTO sub-model. Another was the coming fuel efficiency movement, where families began opting for something less than the ever longer ever wider ever humongously thirsty family four door sedan. Ford hit the nail on the head by offering any number of options, engine sizes, transmission packages, colors, and decor combinations. The long-hood/short trunk styling started the "pony car" movement. It was a monster at Ford, and like McDonald's hamburger signs, production numbers kept setting new records, with over half a million sold in the extended model year. This particular example was Michigan-assembled in January 1965 was found in 2014 with a 4-V carburetor. The engine runs but needs a carb rebuild, now being addressed. The engine oil, transmission fluid, and radiator coolant have been drained and refreshed. The fuel system has been cleaned. Braking system has been gone through and brakes work. Floors, rockers, and torque boxes solid and intact. The doors look good, with no visible rust in the corners or on the bottoms. The data plate is intact, although it has been painted over. The VIN number on the inner fender matches the title and the door data plate. There is a little corner damage on the passenger side front corner of the hood. Driver's front fender has a cut spot behind the corner of the bumper. Trunk lid roof and doors have no visible damage. Slight bit of bondo in the driver's side rear trunk drop-down. Mileage not verified, but looks appropriate for the number of years of storage. Wheels are after market, and tires are not safe to drive on due to their age. They do hold air. You may inspect this car in Indiana, just south of Chicago. I will be happy to post any photos you might want on my website. Offering for sale as-is-as-priced for a short period of time, but anticipating a restoration will be starting in the near future. $100 reward for previous ownership information and/or confirmation of which Oklahoma DSO dealership might have originally sold this car in early 1965. It could have come out of Oklahoma or the Texas panhandle. There could not have been too many new tropical turquoise Mustangs galloping around Oklahoma or the Texas panhandle, early in 1965. Somebody, perhaps a service person, eventually brought it to Michigan by the 1980's. If you have any recollections, please let us know. Thank you for your interest.