What became painfully clear was the car had undergone extensive repairs in the past but required far more work to bring back to a concours-level restoration. Once the restoration was underway-car stripped, media blasted, and secured to my rotisserie-the real work began. My research uncovered that fact that the car should be Twilight Turquoise, with a standard black interior and black top, and certainly no GT options as those were not available until March ’65. As found by me, the car was wearing Signal Flare red, with a white top and white pony interior, GT equipped. By then I knew far more about the car than when I purchased it. I left the Mustang in storage until 2010 though, when I eventually decided to ship it out to LA to start its restoration. Needless to say I didn’t leave without the car.
Valve sizes in all the 289 engines were identical. The 289 2bbl engine produced 200 horsepower with the use a an Autolite 2100 2bbl carburetor. and the 289 HiPo engine rated at 271 horsepower. Those are the two places where one can identify the engine code, and in the case of this car it was in fact a “K,” symbol of the HiPo 289. The optional V-8s in 1966 were the 289ci 2bbl engine rated at 164 hp engines and then the 289ci 4bbl 210 hp engine. I decided to take a closer look and inquired with the owner on whether I could have a closer look, which means exactly one thing: looking under the hood and inside the driver’s door for the VIN and warranty tag. While visiting my family in Texas, I spotted an early convertible sitting in the rain, partially covered, but completely neglected. My history with this Mustang though began in April 2004. These were the cars that we drove to school and work, that we bought, wrecked, restored, and resold. During that time we became intimately familiar with dozens of Mustangs from 1965 to 1970 convertibles, coupes, and fastbacks. In 1965, the year of my Mustang, only 181 convertibles were produced, and only 5 painted in Twilight Turquoise.ġ965 is also when my personal history with Ford began, as it was this year that my father joined the Ford Motor Company for what would end up being a nearly 40-year-long career. Based on the information in the HiPo Mustang registry, Ford produced nearly 1.7 million Mustangs from ’64-’67, but only 13,500 of those were HiPo 289-equipped.
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