If you’re into rare cars, you can’t do any rarer than 1 of 1. And that’s what this 1967 Ford Mustang looks to be, at least according to its Marti Report. When you consider that Ford built upwards of a half-million Mustangs that year, that’s incredible. But more details on that below. This currently rust-free car has spent time in California and Arizona and now lives in Goodrich, Michigan. It’s available here on eBay where the bidding has reached $17,300 but not the reserve. This is a project car, so more time and money will be needed on the part of the buyer to complete it. Thanks, Larry D, for this great tip!
The successful Ford Mustang got its first restyle for 1967 and the famous long hood/short deck combination would continue to be popular. If you ordered a GT that year, you got grille-mounted fog lamps, dual exhausts with quad chrome tips, power front disc brakes, a GT gas cap, and a special handling package. If you checked the GTA box on the order form, that also brought the S-Code 390 cubic inch V8 with 320 hp and you could have specified the automatic transmission. The seller’s car appears to be the only one configured as it was. From the Marti Report the seller obtained, this is what it revealed:
- 472,209 Mustangs were built for 1967
- of that 44,281 were convertibles
- and just 1,134 had the S-Code V8 and C-6 automatic tranny
- plus, only 20 had the Luxury interior and GT Equipment Group
- and after all that, one had rocker panel moldings
Yes, that’s diving deep, but it you stopped at the engine and transmission, the car would have been only one fifth of one percent of 1967 production. As the story goes, this Mustang was built in San Jose, California and found its way to Mesa, Arizona seven years later. It apparently stayed there until 1992 and was transferred to Michigan where a restoration was started but didn’t progress. The seller believes the reported mileage of 42,000 is correct because several original items that would have been replaced after that point are still there. The brakes look to be original as do the exhaust hangers and limited wear can be found on the brake pedal.
The engine has been partially dis-assembled and the heads redone but not reinstalled. The list of NOS parts that has been accumulated is extensive and everything comes with the car, saving the buyer the headache of having to source all that over again. Rather than go through what’s there, let’s focus on the few things that the seller says are not: right rear quarter window, transmission inspection cover, shifter rod, power steering hose bracket, exhaust, horns, front deluxe seat belts, outer front bumper arms, carpeting and top. Everything else from the original car or the parts stash is said to be there.
We’re told the car is rust-free, but that’s not the same as saying there never was any. The rear quarter panels have been prepped and primed, so you must wonder about what may have been there before. But we’re told all the panels are original except the driver’s side front fender, which is an NOS Ford part. The floorboards look good and the trunk floor probably does, too, but it and the gas tank are not currently in the car. Because of the rarity of this Ford, it’s hard to say what it could be worth when completed. NADA says that a GT convertible from 1967 could be a $70,000 car, so the GTA would likely be a premium over that.
44K miles and almost half the car is missing?
I like it. Alot!
How tempting would it be to grab a ’67 Stang droptop, a set of repro rocker-panel moldings, and build a clone???????
Not very……
One can have Fun With Numbers using the Marti Report data. For example:
–9.5% of 1967 Mustang production was convertibles. I wonder what that percentage is today for new Mustangs.
–Only 4.9% of convertibles had the 390 V-8. No surprise, most were 289’s or straight sixes. No wonder finding them today isn’t easy.
–Slightly more than half (52%) of the 390 convertibles were automatics.
–I remember Lime Gold being very popular, the data confirms it: 14.8% of the 390 automatic convertibles were that color, and 14.2% of all convertibles were that color (essentially the same number). Remember there were something like 20 colors available.
I like to specify a car in my mind, then see if I can find one “out there.” One such example would be the modern equivalent, a loaded late model Mustang GT convertible but with a manual transmission. New or used. They exist, but aren’t common.
This is a well-equipped car which looks like would be worth finishing the restoration.
I always thought that when a low production # was because of obscure and perhaps unpopular options like the only one known in existence with the factory 8 track tape player WITH the automatic shut off feature that the point is being belabored a bit, true though it might be. Big block Mustang rag top? Very Cool.
Terry J
So the very thing that makes this one of one…the “rock mouldings” (sic) are off the car and I don’t see any factory attachment points. And the AM/FM radio doesn’t appear on the list of parts. Hole in dash. Any mention of them in the listing?
The GTA package denoted that it was an automatic GT. It could be had with any of the mustang V8s the Code 289 2 barrel carb as well as the 289 hipo.
There is a reason rocker panel moldings are rare…they’re ugly as sin.
Oh ok. The ones on my 68 GTA (in the same colour as this car) look pretty darn good, but I am sure you know better. Thanks for your all-knowing insight.
bt
I saw 14 Boss 302’s that were 1of1”s at ford Carlisle one year and I had a 67 gt k code fastback that was a 1of1. One of one on marti reports add up to a LOL.
The Marti report “1 of 1” thing is a reminder there is a big difference between rarity and desirability! A very desirable car hardly needs to be advertised to sell for top dollar, where a less desirable car needs be a 1 of 1 because of a rocker panel. As said in a previous comment, nice car worthy of having the restoration completed.
Maybe I missed it, but does it have the top assy? Looks like it might have taken a light tap to the left side of the rear bumper, dent or kink showing. Of course you would need to see how the body work on the quarters is, and check the rest of the car out. 17 large now wonder what the reserve is? Might be a good one to start with. Know what you are buying! Stay safe and good luck.
Cheers
GPC
I have a “1of 1” Marti Report 1969 Mach 1 “R” code Indian Fire/white 4-speed shaker hood. And in the list of options/no options it mentions “convenience package.” I thought the same thing concerning the above comment about rocker moldings and my convenience package making a car so much rarer…..at least the color combination is +\-90 rare.
And to think….. back in the day, I got one of those convertibles for free, took out the engine to put in a Jeep, gave the complete top and other parts to a friend, threw the rest away at a junk yard. A complete body, calif car, absolutely no rust and never any accident damage. Go ahead… kick me.
In 1972, my first “real” boyfriend had a ’67 Mustang convertible in this green color. Wasn’t a GT but part of the 400,000 that were built. At the time, I had a ’72 MG Midget. He liked my car and “borrowed” it to drive to the Catskills were he was performing. I got the Mustang that summer which was fine with me as I was already tired of inhaling directly from the exhaust pipe of the car in front of me all those toxic fumes.
The Mustang was a good handler and up higher than the MG, so no fumes.
ill be your boyfriend
Another 1 of 1 : I will soon offer for sale the only Honda Accord from 2008 whose owner was born in 1973 and has an hyphenated name, and was the owner of a dark-blue audi before.
When I was in the Navy in 73 or74 I bought a 1968 Mustang GT convertible with a 390, with a automatic transmission for $400.00 because it needed front rotors & pads. I bet that it is the only one that got to ride on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. I was stationed on the USS FDR CVA42 and we going from Mayport Florida to Philadelphia for maintenance and repairs from storm damage. The whole flight deck looked like a used car lot. Put that in a Marti report
But it’s still a Mustang. No thanks.
So far, bid to $21,900, reserve not met. I might be wrong, but I think for $22k I could find a pretty nice 67 Mustang that’s farther along in the resto process.
It does have the correct air cleaner for a change.
Our non-GT had the 390/auto with the decor package with the 67 only tail panel and deluxe interior . In addition a tilt wheel and dealer installed speed control. Should have kept it at my place and I think my dad might have forgot about it but sadly sold it towards the end of his Mustang days.
Not very……
The 1967 Deluxe interior option included that gorgeous brushed aluminum dash and door panels and ribbed lower door moldings. But it also included those special hard backed, chrome trimmed “deluxe” bucket seats. I have sold pairs of these seats alone for $1,000.
another of several 1 of one cars,,good project for 10 K
Back in the late 70s the salvage yard I worked at hauled in one of these 1967 GT convertibles. I was in love. The car was blue with a white top and blue deluxe interior. 390 4bbl 4-speed car. Cool console with a kind of roll up door IIRC. The car was complete and driveable but the right quarter panel was mashed in pretty good. The car sat in the yard for years untouched because there was a title issue. One day it just disappeared. I’ll always wonder what happened to that rare beast.
47k original miles. 1 of 1 so rare Leno and Fomoco have never seen or heard of one, yet this one looks like it spent its entire life at a free parts take what you want yard sale that just so happened to be at the bottom of the sea.
What a waste and good luck to whoever keeps bidding and encouraging this behavior.
When I was a teenager in the 70s still living at home with my parents my father and I were in the cars, classics in special interest mainly. He had been in the antique cars for years but would never dive into the muscle car items. As we were working in his shop I noticed a car hauler drive down our back dirt road to another residence with a 67 or 68 GTA convertible. It was dark green with tan interior. I recognized it immediately as being a car that I saw in the current show and sell newspaper/magazine that was for sale for five or $600. I had told my dad previously about it, a couple days before, because it had the factory Ford beautiful mag wheels on it that I knew were bringing if I remember right 100.00 each. I had told my dad that the wheels were worth almost what the whole car was selling for. But he would not act on it as, again, he was not in the muscle cars at all. So I walked down the street to find a car sitting in a carport of one of his neighbors and it was beautiful. I specifically remember the black panel between the tail lights. I had never seen that before as I did not know much about mustangs at the time. That was my introduction to a GTA. And I will never forget that car almost 50 years later