Vehicle Description
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 transmissionand 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 thestopping 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...errrum 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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