1965 Ford Mustang T5 Hardtop
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1965 Ford Mustang $69,900

"1965 Ford Mustang T5 Hardtop

The long awaited new sports car from Ford, the Mustang was introduced with much fanfare to the public in early April of 1964.� The car featured innovative styling and was offered with several choices of engines, transmissions and options.� The Mustang proved to be an instant success selling over 400,000 units the first year.� Early in the production cycle Ford encountered a problem while trying to export Mustangs to Germany in the usual manner used with export vehicles.� Ford solved this marketing dilemma the easiest way possible, they simply changed the name of all Mustangs exported to Germany to Ford T5 which had been used as the internal project code during development of Mustang.� Sometime in the early 1950s a German truck manufacturer, Krupp, introduced a large general purpose truck and named it the Mustang.� They were issued German copyrights to the name Mustang and continued to build this truck for many years.� This truck was built in several configurations including a dump truck and a fire engine.� This then was the situation with the name Mustang that Ford faced when they tried to sell their successful pony car in Germany.� Rather than simply buying the name from Krupp for a reported $10,000 they chose instead to change the name of all Mustangs exported to Germany to Ford T5s.� T5 has no specific meaning but it was the original project name for the Mustang in the early 1960's.

For consignment, a mostly original car with light handed tasteful modifications to improve on the original.� A 1965 289ci V8 C-code car with a newer mill is here for the taking and showing 4,169 non-verifiable miles on the odometer.� In the early models, 65 and 66, several modifications were incorporated to change the car from a Mustang to a T5.� The 65's received modified hub caps with a plain black center; both model years had the word Mustang removed from the horn ring, rear gas cap and a few other minor changes.� Other than the branding, the mechanical changes to T5, as well as to Mustangs for other countries, were mostly limited to replacing the exterior lighting to meet European regulations, as well as some suspension tuning changes and installation of the shock tower brace from the Shelby GT350 to better suit continental roads.� Ford did design new emblems for the front fender to designate the cars as T5s. �Draped in a one year only hue of Silversmoke Gray, and a black standard interior, this well optioned car painstakingly restored and ready to gallop out of our Hallowed Halls and into your personal stable.� We proudly offer you this 1st year pony from Ford, one of less than 340 T5 ponys to make its way back to US soil and number 13 in the T5 registry.� Get ready to kick up some dust and fall in love with 1965 all over again.

Exterior
A beautiful Silversmoke Gray respray covers the exterior of this car and has some inclusions and scratches in a few areas but otherwise a very nice respray of the factory color.� The restored metal is very straight with good gaps and we see the correct T5 badging on the fenders next to the red, white and blue galloping horse.� Thin mustache-like chrome bumpers present well as does the grille surround and floating crosshair flanked corralled horse, and spear assembly. � All brightwork is showing well and the freshman year Mustang cove is showing off proudly.� For the back, the iconic dual trios of outward V shaped tail lights with nice bezels between each V, a centrally located large badged correct gas cap without the Mustang script and dual trumpet style exhaust tips in chrome.� Correct blacked out 14-inch wheel covers are on all 4 corners and area wrapped in thin white stripe radial rubber.� A shout out to the trunk with its super clean plaid mat and full sized spare tire.

Interior
Looking inside we are met with door panels covered in pristine black vinyl tuck and roll with black textured steel door frames, shiny chrome window cranks and door releases.� Black standard vinyl buckets, are up front and a rear bench are keenly redone with no marks or tears. �A chrome white ball topped Hurst shifter grows from the carpeted center hump.� A dual eyebrowed dash pad sits atop the black full metal jacket dash which contains the original instrument cluster, various chrome knobs and sliders, AM radio, and black textured glove box door.� A faux leather wrapped drilled 3 spoke wheel is perched atop the fixed steering column with the correct no Mustang script center gives a nice touch to all the black. �A clean black carpet floods the floors and is protected by black rubber horse embossed mats while a black perforated vinyl headliner hangs above.

Drivetrain
A beautiful blinged out Ford black 289ci V8 sits comfortably in the black engine bay.� This is not the original engine as it carries a C80E casting number, (see photo).� The bling factor comes in the form of chrome valve covers, air cleaner assembly, and the correct export brace and added Monte Carlo bar.� A Holley 4-barrel carburetor lurks under the air cleaner and handles the air and fuel mixture perfectly, sending it into the mill via a Weiand intake.� Bolted to the rear of the mill is the correct Toploader 4-speed manual transmission�and out back is a Ford 8"" rear axle with 2.80 gearing.� Overall the engine bay presents as clean and well sorted.

Undercarriage
All good under here with no rust, all front suspension and steering components appear to be new with independent coil springs and disc brakes.� Not to be outdone, the rear sports what appear to be new shocks and leaf springs and drum brakes provide the�stopping power.� Headers feed down to the dual exhaust which snakes its way rearward and is toned down by a pair of Flowmaster mufflers.� Bringing up the rear is a new gas tank and the GT style chrome trumpet exhaust tips. �We note a few patched repairs on the left front unibody rail.

Drive-Ability
The candles lit right up, running on all 8 cylinders, and gave us a real ride.� No bucking bronco here very smooth from the well done restoration.� All functions were operational at the time of our drive, oh and did I mention it's fast too!� While Classic Auto Mall represents that these functions were working at the time of our test drive, we cannot guarantee these functions will be working at the time of your purchase.�

Keeping its original exterior color and original interior style and color, this consignor did a fab job on the add ons.� Visually it's stunning, and speaking from the seat of my pants, it's powerful!� The 1 year only color and all of the correct T5 components bring it right down to earth in a heavenly way.� All original cars are cool, but this slightly tweaked in design and performance is definitely the way to go with a 1965 C-code Mustang...errr�um T5 from across the pond.

5F07C345711

5-1965
F-Dearborn, MI Assy Plant
07-Mustang Hardtop
C-289ci 200hp 2bbl V8
345711-Sequential Unit Number

WARRANTY PLATE

BODY 65A-Mustang Hardtop, Standard Vinyl Buckets
COLOR K-Silversmoke Gray
TRIM 26-Black Standard Vinyl Buckets
DATE 05L-November 5th
DSO 91-Export
AXLE 6-Ford 8"" 2.80 Conventional
TRANS 5-4 Speed Manual

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