Carroll Shelby Bought my grandpas house in Bel-Air when I was a little boy. He rented the home for 10 years previously and ended up buying it. I went over to the house a few times and met him and he was really nice to me. He told me I could swim in his pool anytime.
I read a story about the man that bought the very first 65... Ford wanted that car back but he did not want to give it up, so they offered him a deal, we will give you the very first 66 off the line with any options you want, he took that deal and checked off every option on the list. Now I imagine that would have been from the Dearborn Factory, I noticed the Mustang in this video had a lot of options, such as vinyl top pinstriping, air conditioning, Pony interior, Deluxe steering wheel, console Exedra... the story also stated that he kept the 66 for about 10 years then finally got rid of it after it was worn out, the story was in a issue of Mustang monthly from sometime in the 80s, I still have that issue but it is packed away somewhere in the garage , I will look for it and if I find it I will update this comment
I always love your videos Jerry!! I got to tell you a story. My aunt and uncle farmed out south of Lubbock and my aunt decided she wanted a new GTO Judge in 1969. My uncle took her to the Pontiac dealership in Slaton and paid cash for a brand new orange Judge. The salesman told my aunt to not go over 60 in it for the first 500 miles. So on her way home she set the needle on 60 and thought there was something wrong because she was passing everyone on the highway. When she got home and told my uncle about it he wanted to see what 60 she was looking at. Sure enough she was looking at the tachometer. I forget how fast they decided she had been going but it was much faster than 60 MPH!!! Carroll Shelby was one of my hero's also!!! Thanks, Jerry!!!
@@thewriter2549 I was 15 or 16 back then and if I remember correctly they said something like 140. My passion for cars hadn't kicked in at that time so I wasn't paying much attention. I just remember hearing my uncle tell the story. I remember driving a Judge when I was 17 or so and it was one of the first fast cars I had driven. I was hooked!!! Shortly after that is when I bought the 67 SS Chevelle that I still have....
I'm 35. I've never owned a "classic" muscle car and I'm not much of a grease monkey either (too many video games) but I did have a 1996 Camaro SS for my first car back in 2000 and that muscle car itch never really went away. Watching this channel has inspired me to find my old car, buy it back and restore it exactly the way it was when I was 16. Thanks for the history lessons, and the inspiration! I'll do my best to document the process as I go.
About 15 years ago, I had the chance to buy a 1 of 1 1971 Mach 1 mustang fastback. It was the only one sent to Melbourne's assembly plant that was factory fitted right hand drive. VIN ended in 00001. Was matching numbers car, red with black striping, RAM AIR 351. I was so excited to buy it, we had the money, plus I had my own 1971 Mach 1 clone to defer the $40,000 outlay, it required a really nice clean up, that's all, I would never have painted over the original paint. The biggest mistake I made was asking my wife.....I shoulda just bought the thing, the hag said no and I missed the car. I will never live that down, on the + side, I am divorced now :)
I knew a guy that had a number one mustang 66/67 somewhere in that vintage. He didn’t even know what he had when he was telling me about it. He said he bought it off his neighbor who was a ford exec and got a new one every year, told me a girl had signed the dashboard, I asked if the girls name was carol shelby and he said yes, that’s the name. I eventually told him he had a very valuable car and he might want to have it appraised. He later told me nobody could appraise it as it was very rare because it had a lot of things on it that normally couldn’t be ordered on it, which probably was the result of the neighbor being an executive. Long story short word travelled fast about this low mileage car that had been garaged for years. He ended up selling it to a collector who told him it was a unicorn he’d been wanting for his collection for years. He sold it but wouldn’t reveal what he got for it but said it solved his financial problems of giving his kids college educations.
Several years ago, I worked on the #2 Mustang 2+2 289 Hi-Po 271 hp car. It was beige color with beige interior. It was owned by a retired Ford engineer living in Branford FL.
Great video as Always Jerry, But a BIG RED FLAG on this one. The Driver's side Fender apron has been replaced/repaired. That VIN # on the Fender apron is a Hand Re-Stamp by someone...The Ford Fonts ARE NOT correct (especially the stars at the ends) at 4:05sec. Been doing this way too long. However, With all this being said, The Driver's Door Dataplate looks legitimate, but as we know, Doors can be changed/swapped. So the Owner(s) here will have to Unbolt the Passenger side fender, and pull it back a bit to reveal the "Hidden Stamped VIN Number" in order to Verify the car's legitimacy. Hopefully, The 2nd "Hidden VIN#" on the Passenger side will be Legitimate (We'll be able to tell) and not a "Hand Stamp" either. Sounds like the makings of a 2nd video! Regards, my friend, Tony Kovar, 1966 Sprint 200 Mustang Registry, MCA#70001
NEF aurora I completely agree. As soon as I saw the vin on the fender I recognized that the numbers, their alignment and their stars at the front and end of the VIN are incorrect.
Another wonderful episode, Jerry. Like any true lifelong hobbiest, I LOVE the stories, the people and the history of the cars, probably more so than the actual cars themselves (which I'm quite fond of, too :-) ). It's wonderful you're making all this effort to produce these videos for all posterity! Thanks for what you do. -Ed on the Ridge
As much as I love Mustangs, that 1938 unrestored Ford that hasn't been driven since 1952 made me smile ear-to-ear! That car deserves a decent restoration!
My mom's dad actually use to run the machine that made the mustang grill emblems, he set the original machine up and actually had his hand severed off by that machine in 67 and the plant was grand steel in michigan where they were made, my mom's sister use to have the first chrome and non chrome plated emblems but when she passed away they were never found
Agreed, a most unusual color, a deep ocean blue. Bet the women had to be beaten off with a stick back in the day! My grandfather had bright blue eyes, Carolina blue. Diff shade, just as mesmerizing.
In 67 I wrote to Shelby about the purchase of a Cobra. The flared fender Cobras were called the King Cobra. Anyhow, they sent me a brochure back stating the specs as I remember them: 0 to 100 and back to 0 in either 13.5 or 14.5, 0 to 60 in 3.3 or 3.5. And at 100 miles an hour you could break the rear tires loose. The caveat in purchasing a Cobra was that he wouldn't sell you one unless you passed their driving test. I may still have the brochure around. For me, I could never afford a Cobra(around 10 or 11 grand at the time)so I bought a 68FastbackGT390HiPo4spd.,4bbl. with deluxe interior and gold C stripe. Best car I ever owned. Incidentally, my mother bought one of the first Mustangs to come out, a burgundy 64 and a half with a 289 4bbl., 4 spd. with the center console. I think the 4bbl. was a holley. Got to use that car for my prom.
What was Shelby's driving test? I've heard of that. I saved for 10 years and drove an old '66 Mustang instead of a new car to buy a Shelby 289 Cobra in 1988. I told Carroll Shelby in the summer of '87 during a shoot of him with a '67 Terlingua Mustang in Dallas that I wanted a Cobra. He said you better get one soon because prices were going up. He was right.
It's great to see so many great old good old cars have been saved. Congrats on the 001 San Jose '66 Mustang owners discovery. Do the car right. Awesome to see the Shelby signature stuff too!
I have a real Shelby . I discovered Shelby Mustangs at 12 years old and swore I would own 1 some day. 28 years later that day finally came. I bought one for myself on my 40th birthday
That's pretty cool man...... I'm only 43 years young.....5/7/77.... but Mr Shelby was always my hero also but I only had a chance to build his Model cars...... but that's still pretty cool..... my son is into it now..... and he's only 12.......thanks.......jonjon........
That story from Jeff was unexpected and so real that I had to include. I couldn't have gotten this if i had asked. It just happened. I want people to know what Carroll Shelby meant to us.
I got a 2009 mustang gt cs. 4.6 LTR. Man im getting the fever for these old stangs tho. I always loved the stangs. That one video you did in Louisiana was awsome with all them stangs in the woods. Especially being from lousiana .
@@thewriter2549 No offense intended I was just kidding, I know how addictive car collecting gets and how Mustang guys love having bragging rights with production numbers, I was just imagining this becoming a quest to find and own the earliest example of each year mustang, 1975 becoming the missing unicorn to complete the collection. I know a guy who is determined to own one of every year pontiac GTO, in black with a 4 speed factory built. I joked with him to make it a real challenge he should only buy unrestored original cars. Im happy with owning one old ratty 1975 Trans Am that runs and drives if I had the space and money Id be buying up any old car I liked too. Neat find thanks for the video.
On the earlier fords, the trunks only opened from the top and were called the 'well' because any little item you dropped down there was lost like you dropped it down a well. I think the designer wasnt recovering from a heavy night when the 38 was designed
I met a former Ford executive who told me that Job One usually went to an executive or a major dealer as a perk; he said they were seldom sold to the public. The big-window cab he's got is a GMC somewhere between 1955--1959, not a Chevrolet. The dash would have a cutout for a V-shaped speedo centered over the column on a Chev.
If you can get an exec car, it usually differs in options separate from production units. Finding 00001 is pretty rare, but not impossible. I passed up a 72 Grand Prix LJ with an original 454 Motor. It was a barn find in triple black fully equipped. I regret passing it up. That 454 was original and rare.
Wish I could’ve met Carroll Shelby as he was my moms 4-5th cousin, Not driving a Shelby but driving a mustang seems to have been in my blood from the beginning.
In 1968 Getting Out of the USAF my father sold me for the $500 I had for selling 60 days leave a 1964 &1/2 '65 289 HP Fastback Shelby Mustang 2 4 barrel carbs, 4 speed Black with White Interior. It had a V with 289 and a round Enameled Medallion with a Cobra Snake head on each front fender. I believe the title read 1964 & 1/2 but everyone says there were NO '65 Fastbacks. I was told that there 650 to 750 that Shelby had put the Engine suspension trans and rearend in. Don't really know. Sold it all rusted out to a 15 year old who was going to restor it for $100 around 1979.
1964s have 4 slots in the front apron to cool the battery because the generators (not alternators) created alot of heat. Also mustangs were built off the falcon platform. Many floor pan parts and brake drums are dated c3 for 1963. So early Mustangs were a mishmash of Ford parts borrowed from other cars.
I worked on the original 65 mustang when I worked in conservation at the Henry Ford Museum . The year was 2003 and the event was the 100th anniversary of the Ford Motorcar Co. We worked on rebuilding the engine and freshening up the looks. Before we took it a Mustang round up in NC I got to drive it around the grounds of the museum! I will never forget when the car came out of the unmarked trailer people from all over the green converged on the scene. True Mustang freaks apparently know of this unicorn and can spot it from a distance! I swear every person asked either if they could drive it or sit in it. Nope... sorry.
There's a hard core Ford guy in my hometown who had a early Bronco at that 100th anniversary show. He said they wanted mint original cars to represent every car made each year. His Bronco was low mileage original paint, tires the whole bit. Anyway he was selected to have his car displayed. He went on and on about how he and his family had all access and were treated like royalty. He mentioned Carroll Shelby being there and people in line for hours to get his autograph. I ask him if he got it and he said "Hell no, I'm not gonna stand around waiting for a signature, I'm not into that hero worship stuff." I was blown away by his response being such a Ford nut.
Back in the seventies quit my job walked home and a white Mustang with stripes it had seat belts and a roll bar blow me away it was a hot rod gave me a ride all the way to 49 said he had a shot nearby I believe this guy was this guy the thing that got me was how fast he could shift those gears. K e i t h crab truck stop from Fort Mill.
Please do a follow-up. Did the other plants start their model year production on the same day? That might narrow down the chances, even if you couldn't find out about their specific production.
Believe that 1966 Production started on August 16th, 1965 for both Dearborn and San Jose (Milpitas) Plants, and August 25th, 1965 for the Metuchen (Edison), NJ Plant. :o) Tony K. , 1966 Sprint 200 Mustang Registry, MCA#70001.
Super cool. Always entertaining. Perhaps a video about the factory A/FX cars and the Hurst Hemi Darts and Barracudas? And Mr. Norms dealership and the performance Mopars
I thought the same, sure it was kinda in jest, but still made me cringe a little. I just bought a 82 C10 off the original owner and gave him 700 dollars more than he ask. Plus told him he could get more than that. My grandfather taught me a good deal is a fair deal.
Serial Number One. This is the first Mustang produced. It was sold to Stanley Tucker of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada on April 14, 1964, and is actually a 1965 model. Stanley Tucker has his own Wikipedia page about this.
This man said “I remember, I remember being just a kid maybe 23-24.” Cuts to the picture of him looking like a sunburned 15-16 year old going completely bald.
Love your channel! Great videos. Just one thing. You kept saying the vin was OOOO1 "O" is not a number. ZERO "0" Is a number. So should be ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO ONE!! Sorry its my 20 years in the military that made me this way! Lmao 🤘😀🤣🤣
Yes, and when the Dodgers do not score in the top of the 1st inning, and New York is coming to bat, the score is zero to no score - not zero to zero. But, one could make a case that the letter "O" is a shortened form of zero, which is some dictionaries do reference.
@@thewriter2549 Lmao. Why so defensive. Ohhh "O" is not nor has ever been a number. Period, full stop. I was simply pointing that out. Dont get your panties twisted. In the military we are PRECISE. So when we say Ohhh "O" thats a letter, when we say "0" Zero thats a Number! Say it however you like.😀🤣🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺but ny way is obviously correct. But who's keeping score? 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣
In 2016 I was buying Toro commercial walk behind mowers to fix and sell. Two 44” cut models serial numbers were two digits apart. I was a little excited.
I have a rare 1965 Morris Mini Woody that was imported from England to Australia in 1967. In researching it's history I found another identical Mini two numbers away had come to Australia in 1970. Same model, same colour, built the same day, they would have been on the line together. I've not found it yet, would be great to reunite them.
It’s interesting how stumbling across a rare gem like that mustang was quite literally around the corner/ “local Convenience”.... it’s similar to how my dad acquired his 2nd 1966 Plymouth Barracuda back in 1992, off a little tiny used car lot. He traded a 1972 Ford ranchero 351ci plus a $1,000 bucks for what came to overseen as car #89 for the 1966 Plymouth Barracudas... stamping numbers: “100089”, & it’s turned out to be a special ordered vehicle back in late ‘65 also... originally: 225ci slant 6, floor shift automatic trans, with a wood grained console, black interior, “Surf Turquoise Metallic exterior color, power steering, manual drum brakes, factory/ dealer installed “Chrysler corporation installed air conditioning”. I know it ain’t a Ford, but same designer made both the first generation Plymouth Barracudas & Ford Mustangs, & it’s still in the family... dad owned it from 1992-2014, then it’s pasted on to me. I’m the lucky caretaker of a lil piece of history.
A 65' Mustang Coupe' serial # 002 got bid to $300K at Mecum a few years ago, the seller held the reserve, then later he put it in Barrett-Jackson @ NO RESERVE it SOLD for $165K.....ouch!
Crawford Radiator in downtown Lubbock has that radiator in good hands lol. That's not the only iconic Mustang in Lubbock County. A retired Lubbock High School English teacher has a original Shelby GT350R that she used to race up and down Indiana Avenue.
My Dad did the same for me in 95. A Wimbledon white 65 289 4spd fastback, I'll be honest I never once looked at the VIN. Took me 9 months searching Auto Buyers to find it. Daily condition.
That '66 is a San Jose CA car due to the R in the VIN (second character). Too bad Marti Auto's data base does not go back that far. Nice find, glad the owner is keeping it.
The only thing wrong is that every Mustang assembly plant had an 0000001 car that year and every year. The trick would be to find which one of those 0000001 cars was actually built before the others, if that was possible.
CorgiConnect ...my dad's cousin, my 2nd cousin, went to work at the Ford plant immediately following his graduation from high school, in 1965, here in San Jose, Calif...of course, in 67 he was drafted and deployed to Vietnam as an MP in the Army....anyway, I find it a little odd that folks called that Ford plant the San Jose plant, as it was actually located in Milpitas, Calif, which borders San Jose to the north...it used to be apricot orchard land sandwiched between San Jose and Fremont back then, now it's a Taiwanese and Vietnamese filled dump, it's pathetic really....
@@ralfie8801 there were 3 plants, you have the 1 Mustang which would leave 2. Those 2 could have built a Falcon 1st or what ever else was built at that plant. So Time of day or even the day might not matter. It would take some digging, but the Answer is out there.
WELL GROWING UP AROUND SWEENY TEXAS ,THE ONLY PLACE TO FIND MUSTANGS AROUND THERE IS THE HALL BROTHERS . IF YOU GET DOWN THAT PART OF TEXAS LOOK THEM UP .THEY ARE USUALLY AT THE PARTS STORE ON MAIN STREET. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES GOOD HUNTIN
Great video Jerry love watching your channel. Just out of curiosity did the man who had the orange 1971 Dodge Dart Swinger you did a video on a year or more back ever start restoring the car?
@@thewriter2549 At first we used horses......it was about 1949-52(?) if I remember correctly......that's where I learned "Gee" and "Haw". Later, around '55 we pulled it with an old John Deere B spoke-wheel tractor. I think it was around '57 that we got a good PTO driven mower for a newer John Deere that we had. I know that was probably pretty recent compared to many farmers but we were quite poor. Later, when I was in my teens I hired out on a custom-baling crew that used two mowers offset in tandem. The first was PTO driven and the second was ground-driven like the one seen here. Each had a 7 foot bar and the tandem set up would take 14 feet at a swath.
1965 Deluxe Interior cars and 1965 GT cars also got the 5-dial 140mph Cluster as well....all other '65 cars got the "Falcon" style Idiot lights cluster that only had one turn signal light. Tony K.
I just put an Aluminum Radiator in my all original 67' mustang. The old one was clogged and weighs about 20 pounds. who's rodding radiators these days? and how expensive is it? This makes me want to pull my 60' Ranchero out and start working on it!
You really want some cool jackets you gotta find you one of the vintage Cobra nylon racing stripe jackets that they used to sell back in the 60's and 70's. I have one in black, blue, and red and also the one given away with the 79 indy pace car, they are all super cool and are at least made in AMERICA.
I'm in the Omar Shriners in South Carolina they have a 70s 01 02 and 03 mustang convertibles so I was told don't know how much truth is to it but I have seen the cars plenty of times
i often think that if i were 20 years younger i'd emigrate to the US and take advantage of the real estate prices in some of those little towns and occupy myself with older cars,but alas I'm stuck here in Australia where the Chicoms have driven the price of any realestate beyond the ability of most to pay.
Jimmy J, yes I’m moving from DC to a small town in Mn where I can get a house with big garage and pay cash for it after selling the city condo, with enough cash left to go buy a Porsche.
800 for the Ranchero I seriously would be interested on that Ranchero you don't see prices like that in California they want 2500 and it's a clunker that one looks pretty straight and simple to get going just how I like it
Its been 20 plus years so my info is vague. But that old guy in reno when i lived there that has or had a public display of cars in a building a few blocks off of virginia street. I think he was a casino owner guy. He has some rare things in there.from knowing the big wigs at the dealerships like a hemi wagon i think. maybe some sort of lambroghini powered international scout or something. All built at the factories one of one's. Quite a bit more but its been so long i just remember i was shaking my head in disbelief that this stuff exists. Maybe some of you know who i am talking about and/or seen his car show / display / collection. Is it still there? If you remember some of them please refresh my memory.
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Carroll Shelby Bought my grandpas house in Bel-Air when I was a little boy. He rented the home for 10 years previously and ended up buying it. I went over to the house a few times and met him and he was really nice to me. He told me I could swim in his pool anytime.
Maybe 20 years ago or so Carroll told me he bought a second house in Bel Air. He even told me the price. I think he rented that one out.
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Man, that guy has some really Blue Eyes!
Should see my ex gf. We all called her Marilyn Monroe. Blond hair crystal frost blue with big.... Lol
You pay that much attention to a dude and especially his eyes?? Wierd
That is the first thing I noticed also.
I noticed it too. It's quite honestly hard not to notice. Lol
Kinda hard not to notice those eyes! And no Chuck, that’s not “weird”!!! Though what was, was your grammar. Lol
I read a story about the man that bought the very first 65... Ford wanted that car back but he did not want to give it up, so they offered him a deal, we will give you the very first 66 off the line with any options you want, he took that deal and checked off every option on the list. Now I imagine that would have been from the Dearborn Factory, I noticed the Mustang in this video had a lot of options, such as vinyl top pinstriping, air conditioning, Pony interior, Deluxe steering wheel, console Exedra... the story also stated that he kept the 66 for about 10 years then finally got rid of it after it was worn out, the story was in a issue of Mustang monthly from sometime in the 80s, I still have that issue but it is packed away somewhere in the garage , I will look for it and if I find it I will update this comment
I absolutely remember reading that very story! I believe it was in the Mustang Monthly when the very first 64-1/2 was found
@@farewell_to_normalcy9352 I'm going to look for that issue of Mustang monthly today
I always love your videos Jerry!! I got to tell you a story. My aunt and uncle farmed out south of Lubbock and my aunt decided she wanted a new GTO Judge in 1969. My uncle took her to the Pontiac dealership in Slaton and paid cash for a brand new orange Judge. The salesman told my aunt to not go over 60 in it for the first 500 miles. So on her way home she set the needle on 60 and thought there was something wrong because she was passing everyone on the highway. When she got home and told my uncle about it he wanted to see what 60 she was looking at. Sure enough she was looking at the tachometer. I forget how fast they decided she had been going but it was much faster than 60 MPH!!! Carroll Shelby was one of my hero's also!!! Thanks, Jerry!!!
Oh man, that had me laughing out loud for real!! Did you ever figure up the speed with the gearing?
@@thewriter2549 I was 15 or 16 back then and if I remember correctly they said something like 140. My passion for cars hadn't kicked in at that time so I wasn't paying much attention. I just remember hearing my uncle tell the story. I remember driving a Judge when I was 17 or so and it was one of the first fast cars I had driven. I was hooked!!! Shortly after that is when I bought the 67 SS Chevelle that I still have....
I'm 35. I've never owned a "classic" muscle car and I'm not much of a grease monkey either (too many video games) but I did have a 1996 Camaro SS for my first car back in 2000 and that muscle car itch never really went away.
Watching this channel has inspired me to find my old car, buy it back and restore it exactly the way it was when I was 16.
Thanks for the history lessons, and the inspiration! I'll do my best to document the process as I go.
About 15 years ago, I had the chance to buy a 1 of 1 1971 Mach 1 mustang fastback. It was the only one sent to Melbourne's assembly plant that was factory fitted right hand drive. VIN ended in 00001. Was matching numbers car, red with black striping, RAM AIR 351. I was so excited to buy it, we had the money, plus I had my own 1971 Mach 1 clone to defer the $40,000 outlay, it required a really nice clean up, that's all, I would never have painted over the original paint. The biggest mistake I made was asking my wife.....I shoulda just bought the thing, the hag said no and I missed the car. I will never live that down, on the + side, I am divorced now :)
I was born in April '66 and my mom loved and owned several '65 Mustangs when I was a kid, so this video is really cool. 👍
I knew a guy that had a number one mustang 66/67 somewhere in that vintage. He didn’t even know what he had when he was telling me about it. He said he bought it off his neighbor who was a ford exec and got a new one every year, told me a girl had signed the dashboard, I asked if the girls name was carol shelby and he said yes, that’s the name. I eventually told him he had a very valuable car and he might want to have it appraised. He later told me nobody could appraise it as it was very rare because it had a lot of things on it that normally couldn’t be ordered on it, which probably was the result of the neighbor being an executive. Long story short word travelled fast about this low mileage car that had been garaged for years. He ended up selling it to a collector who told him it was a unicorn he’d been wanting for his collection for years. He sold it but wouldn’t reveal what he got for it but said it solved his financial problems of giving his kids college educations.
A girl signed it, wow, that's pretty clever of you to realize he probably thought Carroll was a girl's name.
i always loved when they would show mr Shelby at auctions, specially when he would sign a car. he just seemed like the ultimate in cool.
Several years ago, I worked on the #2 Mustang 2+2 289 Hi-Po 271 hp car. It was beige color with beige interior. It was owned by a retired Ford engineer living in Branford FL.
Fantastic Jerry, you’re the best storyteller on RUclips.
Thanks Mark.
Agreed! You need to go on Vinwiki and tell your craziest Mustang stories!
Might rather tell them here if anybody is interested and I can remember the details.
Great video as Always Jerry, But a BIG RED FLAG on this one. The Driver's side Fender apron has been replaced/repaired. That VIN # on the Fender apron is a Hand Re-Stamp by someone...The Ford Fonts ARE NOT correct (especially the stars at the ends) at 4:05sec. Been doing this way too long. However, With all this being said, The Driver's Door Dataplate looks legitimate, but as we know, Doors can be changed/swapped. So the Owner(s) here will have to Unbolt the Passenger side fender, and pull it back a bit to reveal the "Hidden Stamped VIN Number" in order to Verify the car's legitimacy. Hopefully, The 2nd "Hidden VIN#" on the Passenger side will be Legitimate (We'll be able to tell) and not a "Hand Stamp" either. Sounds like the makings of a 2nd video! Regards, my friend, Tony Kovar, 1966 Sprint 200 Mustang Registry, MCA#70001
NEF aurora I completely agree. As soon as I saw the vin on the fender I recognized that the numbers, their alignment and their stars at the front and end of the VIN are incorrect.
Another wonderful episode, Jerry. Like any true lifelong hobbiest, I LOVE the stories, the people
and the history of the cars, probably more so than the actual cars themselves (which I'm quite
fond of, too :-) ).
It's wonderful you're making all this effort to produce these videos for all posterity!
Thanks for what you do.
-Ed on the Ridge
Thanks for the feedback, which is a strong incentive for me.
As much as I love Mustangs, that 1938 unrestored Ford that hasn't been driven since 1952 made me smile ear-to-ear! That car deserves a decent restoration!
My mom's dad actually use to run the machine that made the mustang grill emblems, he set the original machine up and actually had his hand severed off by that machine in 67 and the plant was grand steel in michigan where they were made, my mom's sister use to have the first chrome and non chrome plated emblems but when she passed away they were never found
I have a floor mat,and a armrest,I am almost there.
I have a few original cast mustang emblems I stole off a few back in the day and ended up selling mine, that i would let go of😂😂😂
JERRY! Another wonderful story!
Love it. TX and many blessings.
That man must have the bluest eyes I have EVER seen. Wow.
Seriously. I've never seen that color in eyes before. Crazy!
Agreed, a most unusual color, a deep ocean blue. Bet the women had to be beaten off with a stick back in the day! My grandfather had bright blue eyes, Carolina blue. Diff shade, just as mesmerizing.
I know.
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Yes, never thought of that, absolutely.
So it's the 01 body. Need those matching numbers on the block to be a gem.
In 67 I wrote to Shelby about the purchase of a Cobra. The flared fender Cobras were called the King Cobra. Anyhow, they sent me a brochure back stating the specs as I remember them: 0 to 100 and back to 0 in either 13.5 or 14.5, 0 to 60 in 3.3 or 3.5. And at 100 miles an hour you could break the rear tires loose. The caveat in purchasing a Cobra was that he wouldn't sell you one unless you passed their driving test. I may still have the brochure around. For me, I could never afford a Cobra(around 10 or 11 grand at the time)so I bought a 68FastbackGT390HiPo4spd.,4bbl. with deluxe interior and gold C stripe. Best car I ever owned. Incidentally, my mother bought one of the first Mustangs to come out, a burgundy 64 and a half with a 289 4bbl., 4 spd. with the center console. I think the 4bbl. was a holley. Got to use that car for my prom.
What was Shelby's driving test? I've heard of that. I saved for 10 years and drove an old '66 Mustang instead of a new car to buy a Shelby 289 Cobra in 1988. I told Carroll Shelby in the summer of '87 during a shoot of him with a '67 Terlingua Mustang in Dallas that I wanted a Cobra. He said you better get one soon because prices were going up. He was right.
Such wonderful coverage of such a classic vehicle.
It's great to see so many great old good old cars have been saved. Congrats on the 001 San Jose '66 Mustang owners discovery. Do the car right. Awesome to see the Shelby signature stuff too!
I have a real Shelby . I discovered Shelby Mustangs at 12 years old and swore I would own 1 some day. 28 years later that day finally came. I bought one for myself on my 40th birthday
Great outcome, and what model year Shelby did you get?
The ending frame is hilarious the way he’s looking up almost like a little boy imagining things lol
That's pretty cool man...... I'm only 43 years young.....5/7/77.... but Mr Shelby was always my hero also but I only had a chance to build his Model cars...... but that's still pretty cool..... my son is into it now..... and he's only 12.......thanks.......jonjon........
That story from Jeff was unexpected and so real that I had to include. I couldn't have gotten this if i had asked. It just happened. I want people to know what Carroll Shelby meant to us.
Excellent video, lots of neat cars, an original Coca-Cola sign, and, I have to admit, Carroll Shelby is my hero too!!
Same here!
Happy Belated Built day to that 1966 Mustang… Aug 16 1965🥳🥳🥳
I got a 2009 mustang gt cs. 4.6 LTR. Man im getting the fever for these old stangs tho. I always loved the stangs. That one video you did in Louisiana was awsome with all them stangs in the woods. Especially being from lousiana .
Man I have a 66 mustang for sale production date Sept 29 1965 early 66 show car
Some day the quest to find 1975 mustang 0000001 will top this guys to do list.
No, and my edit should have included he heard rumors in the area for years about this car.
@@thewriter2549 No offense intended I was just kidding, I know how addictive car collecting gets and how Mustang guys love having bragging rights with production numbers, I was just imagining this becoming a quest to find and own the earliest example of each year mustang, 1975 becoming the missing unicorn to complete the collection.
I know a guy who is determined to own one of every year pontiac GTO, in black with a 4 speed factory built. I joked with him to make it a real challenge he should only buy unrestored original cars.
Im happy with owning one old ratty 1975 Trans Am that runs and drives if I had the space and money Id be buying up any old car I liked too. Neat find thanks for the video.
On the earlier fords, the trunks only opened from the top and were called the 'well' because any little item you dropped down there was lost like you dropped it down a well. I think the designer wasnt recovering from a heavy night when the 38 was designed
I met a former Ford executive who told me that Job One usually went to an executive or a major dealer as a perk; he said they were seldom sold to the public. The big-window cab he's got is a GMC somewhere between 1955--1959, not a Chevrolet. The dash would have a cutout for a V-shaped speedo centered over the column on a Chev.
If you can get an exec car, it usually differs in options separate from production units. Finding 00001 is pretty rare, but not impossible. I passed up a 72 Grand Prix LJ with an original 454 Motor. It was a barn find in triple black fully equipped. I regret passing it up. That 454 was original and rare.
@@smartprocesssolutions748 454 is a chevy engine, would not have been in a GP, unless it was Canadian possibly. 455 was Pontiac.
GREAT Video Jerry. That must have been exciting
Always be truthful!
If its 0001 tell the owner if they don't know.
Honestly is the best policy.
Who said, "You can't cheat an honest man?"
I met Carroll Shelby at the World Chili Cookoff in Terlingua, Tx in 1977.
Yes, good times, very good times. I knew Carroll 30 years. He was always having fun,
High performance parts and farts. Nice.
im more impressed with the guys blue eyes
Wish I could’ve met Carroll Shelby as he was my moms 4-5th cousin, Not driving a Shelby but driving a mustang seems to have been in my blood from the beginning.
damn, i love those ponys on the seats
Really cool video it was like taking a trip to the past those are all great peices of america 👍
In 1968 Getting Out of the USAF my father sold me for the $500 I had for selling 60 days leave a 1964 &1/2 '65 289 HP Fastback Shelby Mustang 2 4 barrel carbs, 4 speed Black with White Interior. It had a V with 289 and a round Enameled Medallion with a Cobra Snake head on each front fender. I believe the title read 1964 & 1/2 but everyone says there were NO '65 Fastbacks. I was told that there 650 to 750 that Shelby had put the Engine suspension trans and rearend in. Don't really know. Sold it all rusted out to a 15 year old who was going to restor it for $100 around 1979.
do you have any photos of the car from when you owned it? Would like to see them.
First fastback Mustang came out in September of 1964 and were titled as '65's.
My friend owned a 64 1/2 talking in the 90s and it was neat. All of what you say sounds familiar and believe it was a faint blue color.
1964s have 4 slots in the front apron to cool the battery because the generators (not alternators) created alot of heat. Also mustangs were built off the falcon platform. Many floor pan parts and brake drums are dated c3 for 1963. So early Mustangs were a mishmash of Ford parts borrowed from other cars.
I enjoyed watching this!
I worked on the original 65 mustang when I worked in conservation at the Henry Ford Museum . The year was 2003 and the event was the 100th anniversary of the Ford Motorcar Co. We worked on rebuilding the engine and freshening up the looks. Before we took it a Mustang round up in NC I got to drive it around the grounds of the museum! I will never forget when the car came out of the unmarked trailer people from all over the green converged on the scene. True Mustang freaks apparently know of this unicorn and can spot it from a distance! I swear every person asked either if they could drive it or sit in it. Nope... sorry.
There's a hard core Ford guy in my hometown who had a early Bronco at that 100th anniversary show. He said they wanted mint original cars to represent every car made each year. His Bronco was low mileage original paint, tires the whole bit. Anyway he was selected to have his car displayed. He went on and on about how he and his family had all access and were treated like royalty. He mentioned Carroll Shelby being there and people in line for hours to get his autograph. I ask him if he got it and he said "Hell no, I'm not gonna stand around waiting for a signature, I'm not into that hero worship stuff." I was blown away by his response being such a Ford nut.
Back in the seventies quit my job walked home and a white Mustang with stripes it had seat belts and a roll bar blow me away it was a hot rod gave me a ride all the way to 49 said he had a shot nearby I believe this guy was this guy the thing that got me was how fast he could shift those gears. K e i t h crab truck stop from Fort Mill.
Please do a follow-up. Did the other plants start their model year production on the same day? That might narrow down the chances, even if you couldn't find out about their specific production.
Interesting you should say this because we were thinking the same thing and trying to set this up as soon as possible.
Believe that 1966 Production started on August 16th, 1965 for both Dearborn and San Jose (Milpitas) Plants, and August 25th, 1965 for the Metuchen (Edison), NJ Plant. :o) Tony K. , 1966 Sprint 200 Mustang Registry, MCA#70001.
Super cool. Always entertaining. Perhaps a video about the factory A/FX cars and the Hurst Hemi Darts and Barracudas? And Mr. Norms dealership and the performance Mopars
Sounds good!
His first thought when he saw the VIN was to try to “steal” it , hoping the owner didnt know what he had. What a guy 🤦🏼♂️
I thought the same, sure it was kinda in jest, but still made me cringe a little. I just bought a 82 C10 off the original owner and gave him 700 dollars more than he ask. Plus told him he could get more than that. My grandfather taught me a good deal is a fair deal.
@@tp5776 - Well, your grandpa is dead and you are a dying breed and so am I.
That man’s blue eyes are out of this world❤️❤️❤️
I thought the same.
Serial Number One. This is the first Mustang produced. It was sold to Stanley Tucker of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada on April 14, 1964, and is actually a 1965 model. Stanley Tucker has his own Wikipedia page about this.
Yes, but we found one of the 000001 cars for the 1966 model year and apparently there is more than one 000001 car.
Gotta love it that old dude was going to try to steal that car off of the owner
no - that was pure levity among 2 car people that have become friends
Great stories Jerry !
This man said “I remember, I remember being just a kid maybe 23-24.” Cuts to the picture of him looking like a sunburned 15-16 year old going completely bald.
I know I thought the same thing. Lol
PRICELESS!! WOW! THAT'S A CRAZY...ONE!
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Wow l am impressed. Wish l could see car in person
Love your channel! Great videos. Just one thing. You kept saying the vin was OOOO1 "O" is not a number. ZERO "0" Is a number. So should be ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO ONE!! Sorry its my 20 years in the military that made me this way! Lmao 🤘😀🤣🤣
Yes, and when the Dodgers do not score in the top of the 1st inning, and New York is coming to bat, the score is zero to no score - not zero to zero. But, one could make a case that the letter "O" is a shortened form of zero, which is some dictionaries do reference.
@@thewriter2549 Lmao. Why so defensive. Ohhh "O" is not nor has ever been a number. Period, full stop. I was simply pointing that out. Dont get your panties twisted. In the military we are PRECISE. So when we say Ohhh "O" thats a letter, when we say "0" Zero thats a Number! Say it however you like.😀🤣🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺but ny way is obviously correct. But who's keeping score? 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@thewriter2549 Especially when talking VIN Numbers where there are numbers and Letters isnt precision necessary?
I was agreeing with you with my yes and by way of an example in baseball. I have a degree in mathematics.
@@thewriter2549 Gotcha. Sorry for sounding arrogant. You have wonderful videos. I really enjoy them. Great work Jerry!
Really it comes down to when the car was originally made in which plant on which day
Early 289 engines had a 5 bolt pattern for the bell housing. Late 289-302 engines has 6 bolt pattern for bell housing.
True story...
Don't forget most people assume a 260 is a 289.
In 2016 I was buying Toro commercial walk behind mowers to fix and sell. Two 44” cut models serial numbers were two digits apart. I was a little excited.
I have a rare 1965 Morris Mini Woody that was imported from England to Australia in 1967. In researching it's history I found another identical Mini two numbers away had come to Australia in 1970. Same model, same colour, built the same day, they would have been on the line together. I've not found it yet, would be great to reunite them.
It’s interesting how stumbling across a rare gem like that mustang was quite literally around the corner/ “local Convenience”.... it’s similar to how my dad acquired his 2nd 1966 Plymouth Barracuda back in 1992, off a little tiny used car lot. He traded a 1972 Ford ranchero 351ci plus a $1,000 bucks for what came to overseen as car #89 for the 1966 Plymouth Barracudas... stamping numbers: “100089”, & it’s turned out to be a special ordered vehicle back in late ‘65 also... originally: 225ci slant 6, floor shift automatic trans, with a wood grained console, black interior, “Surf Turquoise Metallic exterior color, power steering, manual drum brakes, factory/ dealer installed “Chrysler corporation installed air conditioning”. I know it ain’t a Ford, but same designer made both the first generation Plymouth Barracudas & Ford Mustangs, & it’s still in the family... dad owned it from 1992-2014, then it’s pasted on to me. I’m the lucky caretaker of a lil piece of history.
My Auto shop teacher in High school ordered a 1969 Mustang Grande. The VIN was 100003 ;)
And everybody took note, I'm sure, or you wouldn't be telling us today. It seems to me the 001 cars never show up on the street.
A 65' Mustang Coupe' serial # 002 got bid to $300K at Mecum a few years ago, the seller held the reserve, then later he put it in Barrett-Jackson @ NO RESERVE it SOLD for $165K.....ouch!
Wow, just wow
Sold for $160K too much
Crawford Radiator in downtown Lubbock has that radiator in good hands lol. That's not the only iconic Mustang in Lubbock County. A retired Lubbock High School English teacher has a original Shelby GT350R that she used to race up and down Indiana Avenue.
Um is there a part 2 ???
WOW! that's awesome guys! Cool find!
We agree!
My Dad did the same for me in 95. A Wimbledon white 65 289 4spd fastback, I'll be honest I never once looked at the VIN. Took me 9 months searching Auto Buyers to find it. Daily condition.
Whoa nelly. I bet this goes on the auction block within 5 years.
What a find!
1:22 his eyes are crazy
The red fiat looks like one I used to own when I lived over in rising Star Texas
That '66 is a San Jose CA car due to the R in the VIN (second character). Too bad Marti Auto's data base does not go back that far. Nice find, glad the owner is keeping it.
The only thing wrong is that every Mustang assembly plant had an 0000001 car that year and every year.
The trick would be to find which one of those 0000001 cars was actually built before the others, if that was possible.
CorgiConnect ...my dad's cousin, my 2nd cousin, went to work at the Ford plant immediately following his graduation from high school, in 1965, here in San Jose, Calif...of course, in 67 he was drafted and deployed to Vietnam as an MP in the Army....anyway, I find it a little odd that folks called that Ford plant the San Jose plant, as it was actually located in Milpitas, Calif, which borders San Jose to the north...it used to be apricot orchard land sandwiched between San Jose and Fremont back then, now it's a Taiwanese and Vietnamese filled dump, it's pathetic really....
@@ralfie8801 there were 3 plants, you have the 1 Mustang which would leave 2. Those 2 could have built a Falcon 1st or what ever else was built at that plant. So Time of day or even the day might not matter. It would take some digging, but the Answer is out there.
WELL GROWING UP AROUND SWEENY TEXAS ,THE ONLY PLACE TO FIND MUSTANGS AROUND THERE IS THE HALL BROTHERS .
IF YOU GET DOWN THAT PART OF TEXAS LOOK THEM UP .THEY ARE USUALLY AT THE PARTS STORE ON MAIN STREET.
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES
GOOD HUNTIN
"R" is the San Jose, Ca plant. That is the first 66 out of California. Wonder where are the first 5F 6F cars are from
Dearborn at. .
Are you going to do a follow up video on th his? I'm sure I'm not the only one who needs to know if you guys get the car or not
Working on setting one up now.
@@thewriter2549 Thank you. I thought that we were left hanging. Love the videos bro 👍👍
Hope you all can get it restore it and put it up it's a great car
So what was the value and did they sell?
How do you know they made them in sequence though? They found 67 Firebird convertible 000 and then claim they built them per order , not in sequence
Yes, that is true. Maybe the Marti Report would reveal that.
Great video Jerry love watching your channel. Just out of curiosity did the man who had the orange 1971 Dodge Dart Swinger you did a video on a year or more back ever start restoring the car?
He dd, and after getting the car looking good he wants to sell now.
@@thewriter2549 That's good. Lubbock looks like a nice town always wanted to visit there someday mainly because its Buddy Holly's hometown.
When I was a kid I mowed hay with a mower exactly like that for years in South Dakota.
Really? How did you pull it? What year was this?
@@thewriter2549 At first we used horses......it was about 1949-52(?) if I remember correctly......that's where I learned "Gee" and "Haw". Later, around '55 we pulled it with an old John Deere B spoke-wheel tractor. I think it was around '57 that we got a good PTO driven mower for a newer John Deere that we had. I know that was probably pretty recent compared to many farmers but we were quite poor. Later, when I was in my teens I hired out on a custom-baling crew that used two mowers offset in tandem. The first was PTO driven and the second was ground-driven like the one seen here. Each had a 7 foot bar and the tandem set up would take 14 feet at a swath.
My friend has a prototype 66 Mustang that has no serial number if I'm remembering correctly...
can you email me about this? jerryheasley@gmail.com
Even the Ford prototypes were issued an ID number.
There’s a good bakery in Slaton. That’s about it.
That was a good bakery. Have you been there?
I love that Forrest Gump is narrating.
Thanks!!
@@thewriter2549 I was joking Jerry. I think you and your channel are awesome. I been watchin all your stuff.
I thought it was the narrator from Dukes of Hazzard. peace.
My 65 mustang is 6001. It would have had the original numbers matching engine but the guy I bought it from put a crate motor with cam in it.
need the last six digits to define the consecutive unit number of the VIN
Only Ford ultra high performance engines had ID numbers that matched the car's ID number.
And all this time I thought Lubbock was "downtown middle of nowhere"...
Serial number 1 is nice but does it really mean it's worth more
A few years back I actually owned an Audi A4 that was serial 000001 for that year. Nothing special, other than the VIN.
Wasnt the first one sold in Newfoundland, Canada?
the first 1965, this is a 1966 model
Ford built over 607,000 1966 Mustangs. With no direct competition, they sold like hotcakes. They even featured a 140-mph speedometer in '66.
1965 Deluxe Interior cars and 1965 GT cars also got the 5-dial 140mph Cluster as well....all other '65 cars got the "Falcon" style Idiot lights cluster that only had one turn signal light. Tony K.
that old timer that found the mustang at his shop has the bluest blue eyes i have ever seen. they almost look fake
I just put an Aluminum Radiator in my all original 67' mustang. The old one was clogged and weighs about 20 pounds. who's rodding radiators these days? and how expensive is it?
This makes me want to pull my 60' Ranchero out and start working on it!
Had my original rebuilt. Cost a little more than the cheap replacement for a 64 galaxy it was 480 dollars. Just letting you know how much
Arizona desert runner. Good bet it has never seen any salt and very little rust.
Nice story Jerry
He's dreamy !
You really want some cool jackets you gotta find you one of the vintage Cobra nylon racing stripe jackets that they used to sell back in the 60's and 70's. I have one in black, blue, and red and also the one given away with the 79 indy pace car, they are all super cool and are at least made in AMERICA.
I'm givin' a thumbs up
Just for it havin' that autolite 2600 on it
Dang me
Built on August 16th ??? That's my birthday!!!
The original motor gone kills the thing to a hard core collector.
Nice car with an interesting story but I am thinking without the numbers matching engine the value will be quite a bit lower in value.
Ford mustangs only had date codes. They didn't have matching numbers. VINS
No matching numbers..Ford didn’t do that..
I'm in the Omar Shriners in South Carolina they have a 70s 01 02 and 03 mustang convertibles so I was told don't know how much truth is to it but I have seen the cars plenty of times
i often think that if i were 20 years younger i'd emigrate to the US and take advantage of the real estate prices in some of those little towns and occupy myself with older cars,but alas I'm stuck here in Australia where the Chicoms have driven the price of any realestate beyond the ability of most to pay.
We moved out into the sticks to get clear of over the top city real estate prices.. best move ever. Got my life back! Now I can play hotrods again.
Jimmy J, yes I’m moving from DC to a small town in Mn where I can get a house with big garage and pay cash for it after selling the city condo, with enough cash left to go buy a Porsche.
I'd take that Ranchero with 3 on the tree.
800 for the Ranchero I seriously would be interested on that Ranchero you don't see prices like that in California they want 2500 and it's a clunker that one looks pretty straight and simple to get going just how I like it
Its been 20 plus years so my info is vague. But that old guy in reno when i lived there that has or had a public display of cars in a building a few blocks off of virginia street. I think he was a casino owner guy. He has some rare things in there.from knowing the big wigs at the dealerships like a hemi wagon i think. maybe some sort of lambroghini powered international scout or something. All built at the factories one of one's. Quite a bit more but its been so long i just remember i was shaking my head in disbelief that this stuff exists. Maybe some of you know who i am talking about and/or seen his car show / display / collection. Is it still there? If you remember some of them please refresh my memory.