1965 Ford Mustang Coupe
Ten thousand smackers doesn’t get you much in a classic 60s pony car these days and a sub $10k Mustang is usually a complete pile of steaming horse pooh. Today’s Mustang might not be a fancy fastback, but it does have a V8 and a 4-speed top loader manual gearbox. If rust hasn’t turned it into a Fintstones mobile in the inside, I have to think this is a good deal. Find this 1965 Ford Mustang offered for $10,000 in Arcadia Ridge, TX via craigslist.
From the seller:
1965 65 Mustang
condition: fair
cylinders: 8 cylinders
drive: rwd
fuel: gas
odometer: 16677
paint color: red
title status: clean
transmission: manual
type: coupe
1965 Mustang Coupe up for sale 289 C code 2V 4B carb 700 CFM 4 speed top loader transmission assembled in Dearborn Michigan. Runs and drive is in need of restoration. Clean Texas Title. 10,000 OBO
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Unless that engine can spin at 10.5 k and has impeccable flow and exhaust, that is way too much carb. More likely it stalls in the middle of the intersection and the owner has no idea why.
But mohr carb is always mohr better…its got CFMs.
Had a friend that got a convertible with no engine and harvested a bunch of junkyard parts. Thanks to the wonder of interchange manuals it had some sort of truck 307 and a complete intake and carb that was a tunnel ram and a big 4 barrel off of a drag boat or something. Anyway it really wanted to be an off and on switch unless you floored it at idle in which case it was just an off switch. Once you figured out how to get it out of the valley of no torque and get up to say 20 miles an hour it did have one entertaining feature. If you were to blip the throttle just right and then lift it, it would kill the engine (thank god it had a stick and didn’t just stop) momentarily from making the mixture so rich and then when vacuum was restored you would get about a 4 foot across fireball and a really loud boom out of the tail pipes. It almost made up for the fact that the car was barely drivable
Oh who am I kidding, actually that was probably the entire point of that car.
When 10 K is a good deal for one of 9 million garden variety early Stangs it’s official : I’m poor and old.