Vehicle Description
1966 Ford Mustang Coupe - Blue with a Two Tone Blue/White Interior
- 289 V8 - 3 Speed Manual (Please note: If you happen to be viewing
this 1966 Ford Mustang Coupe on a website other than our Garage
Kept Motors site, it's possible that you've only seen some of our
many photographs of the car due to third-party website limitations.
To be sure you access all the more than 145 photographs, as well as
a short start-up and walk-around video, please go to our main
website: Garage Kept Motors.) If one car embodies 1960s Americana,
it's the 1965�€"66 Mustang. Hagerty, January 2021 Hagerty
summarized the changes incorporated in the 1966 Mustang: Changes in
the second year of production were limited, rightly so as the
Mustang passed the one-million-unit production mark this year. You
can spot a 1966 Mustang from its less cluttered grill texture,
chrome hood molding, redesigned gas cap, new wheel covers, an
upgrade from 13�€� to 14�€� wheels (six-cylinder models only),
standard 5-pod gauge cluster, redesigned side scoop brightwork and
chrome panels over the rocker panels (deleted on GT). Federal
mandates meant that the once optional reverse lamps are now
standard. (The prior) year's extensive list of optional equipment
was also present in 1966, with the addition of an optional 8-track
cassette tape player. Offered here is a largely original, 1966
Mustang Hardtop Coupe repainted in blue over two-tone blue Pony
interior. This is a respray from the car's original Raven black
paint (and black interior). Other data on the car's
riveted-in-place data tag includes: date-of-manufacture, body
style, engine, bucket seats, interior trim, axle, and transmission.
The Mustang's full decoding is shown below: Vin decodes: 6- Model
Year 1966 F- Dearborn Assembly Plant 07- Coupe T- 200-2V 100001 �€"
Serial Number Trim decodes: Body Code: 65A (Coupe with standard
interior) Exterior Paint: H (Raven black paint) Interior Trim: 26
(Black Interior) Build Date: 03M (3 May 1966) District Sales
Office: 63 (Memphis) Axle: 6 (2.80) Transmission: 6 (C4 Automatic)
The car's medium-blue exterior paint shows very well generally
across all body panels. The paint finish is evenly glossy, and the
trunk interior, door jambs, and hood have been properly sprayed.
(To best gauge the paint finish, be sure to view the close-up
photos in the accompanying gallery.) Panel fit is generally within
period manufacturing specifications. Chrome work-including the
bumpers, mirrors, door handles, window trim, taillight trim, and
added rear-deck luggage carrier-is in very-good-to-excellent
condition, with only limited light patina from age. The
simplified-for-1966 front grille is undamaged. All badging-the
F-O-R-D letters on the hood, the center-grille running-pony emblem,
Mustang logo lower-fender emblems, and Mustang-logo gas-cap-is
properly located and in overall good-to-excellent condition. Cabin
glass and lighting lenses (including on the new-for-1966 backup
lights) are clear and uncracked. Thin-whitewall radial tires are
mounted on factory wheels with Mustang-logo, full-wheel covers in a
faux-slotted-wheel-with-spin-off-centers factory style. The car's
original black interior has been fully and properly replaced with a
light-blue-and white Deluxe Pony variant from another Mustang. Seat
upholstery--light blue with horizontally pleated wide white
inserts--covers the front buckets and rear, 2-position bench seat.
Stylish, perfectly matching door-trim panels are similarly
finished; lower door-jamb trim pieces with Ford-script logos are in
excellent condition. Fresh blue carpets cover the cabin floors. A
stock, Ford-Mustang-logo, metal-trimmed, sport steering wheel (with
riveted-look wood rim) frames the 5-opening gauge cluster (updated
from the '65 model) on woodgrain trim. The shift lever for the
3-speed manual transmission is mounted on the floor. The blue,
padded-top dashboard has the original, push-button AM radio
mounted; the passenger-sid
