Spare Shell Included! 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback

In 1964-66, Ford couldn’t build the new Mustang fast enough. Assembling 1.3 million copies in a little more than two years is a herculean achievement in anybody’s book. The seller bought two of them, both fastbacks, with plans of restoring the best one, but that hasn’t happened, and it’s time for the pair to move on. Located in Walterboro, South Carolina, these cars will be sold as a pair to the highest bidder here on eBay where the no reserve ante stands at $4,100.

Ford got a jump on the 1965 model year by introducing the Mustang at the New York World’s Fair in April 1964 (some think of the early Mustangs as ‘64 ½ models, but they were all titled as ‘65s). The public responded by showing up in droves at dealer showrooms and the rest is history. The fastback didn’t come out until the first full year of ’65 production and the seller acquired two of them to make one good car out of two bad ones. Let’s take a peek at what each one offers.

1965 Fastback (the white car)

This one is titled (Florida) and was produced as an A-code Mustang (289 cubic inch V8 with 4-barrel carburetor). It had the deluxe interior which only found its way into 5,776 fastbacks that year. Much of the flooring was replaced by the seller before he purchased the car, but 12 years have passed, and sitting outdoors just off the ground will eventually eat away at the new stuff. So, as Snuffy Smith would say, “Times A’Wastin’!). The trunk floor is said to be okay.

When it left the factory, it wore Wimbledon White paint, and the interior was black. Unfortunately, the body on the car is shot with far too much rust to making repairs viable. So that’s why the second car was purchased, to donate metal parts to the first one.

1966 Fastback (the black shell)

Produced a year later, this car was being turned into a restomod when the seller got hold of it. As such, the frame that’s welded inside has been customized so the original floors are no more. The seller says the shell itself is decent, but he thinks there is a lot of filler material under the paint/primer, which makes me question why use it as the source of body panels for the other Mustang. Neither one has is great in the sheet metal department.

Between the two Fords, a 289 engine has survived that mirrors the one that the white car came with originally, but it will need to be rebuilt. And it also comes with a date-correct and already re-built 4-speed Toploader. The seller says most of the pieces needed to make one good Mustang should be there, they’ll just have to be gathered up and included when the buyer brings two trailers to haul everything away.