All Ford Mustang Body Styles

All Ford Mustang Body Styles

The Mustang first debuted April 17, 1964 at the World's Fair held in New York. Ford sold 22,000 units the first day! It was advertised as having the "styling and features of expensive European road cars combined with an American mass-production price." The Mustang was a intermediate sized car offered in two body styles. 2,557. The Mustang came standard with a 101hp 170ci six cylinder. Three V8 engines were optional - the 164hp 260ci, 210hp 289ci, and a higher performance 271hp 289ci engine. Other standard equipment included bucket seats, floor shifted transmissions (automatic or manual), and a padded instrument panel. After the Mustang was used as the 1964 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car on May 30th, 190 special hardtop Indy Pace Car replicas (and 3 convertibles) were built. They were special order white with a light blue triple top stripe and had no door mirrors. This site will call the first model the 1964 Mustang, some (including Ford) call them 1964 1/2 Mustangs, and still others contend that they are early 1965 Mustangs.

They all are. These Mustangs are marked with a "5" in the VIN for 1965 but were all assembled before the early August 1964 plant shutdown for 1965 model year retooling. The retooling for the Mustang line included changes in engines, alternator, and trim as well as the introduction of the fastback body style. 2614) as Mustang entered its first full year of production where 559,451 units would be built. The fastback had a larger backlight glass, a shorter trunk lid, functional fresh air vent on the B-pillar, and a folding back seat. All 1965 Mustangs where identical from the window line down and offered one of a 120hp(200ci 6-cycle), 200hp(289ci V8), 225hp(289ci V8), and a high performance 271hp(289ci V8). The new sporty GT package came with the V8 engine, special GT grille with built in fog lamps, a five-dial instrument cluster, an optional GT paint stripe, dual exhaust, and a special handling package. Luxury options included wood-grained vinyl trim, embossed bucket seat inserts, steering wheel with chrome rivets, and door armrests and courtesy lights. Cobra distributor, performance options, dual exhaust, cam kit, heavy-duty clutch, and induction kits. Ford advertised that the Mustang could be "factory-customized" to play out your alter ego or change your life.

Interesting site--when I unhooked the alternator harness, the ground wires were burnt and the insulation was off. Thanks for this great blog on mustangs. You've provided info that has already helped me immensely in working on my '65 A code convertible. Specifically, your charging system description explained exactly what wiring set up I had, and what I should have. Lots of little projects to complete like restoring under dash and door courtesy lights, glove box lights and proper horn hook ups. Someone did a restoration, but not a great one. Many little things have been changed, altered or left out. I'm in the process of putting it back together to create a reliable (sunny and balmy weather) daily driver. This blog is now one of my reference points for going forward. Thank you. I'm glad to hear that this has helped you out. If there is something that I haven't touched on yet that would help you, please feel free to ask. Thanks again for this blog as it is very helpful! I have a '66 Mustang with stock wiring and ammeter.

I would like to add the '65 style alternator warning light in addition to the ammeter. Do you have any suggestions on wiring something like this? Thank you. That is very kind of you. As far as wiring the light goes, it would be a pretty straight-forward procedure. I've been working on my son's '65 mustang coupe slowly but surely as a project car and been using your blogs as my primary source of info. It sounds like you are describing the charge indicator (idiot) light. Did this car come with the warning lights and the Falcon style speedo, or the 5 gauge cluster with the round speedo, like a 66? First of all, Thanks for the reply. To my knowledge I think it has the '65 original,typical style instrument cluster with 2 round gauges on either side and yes, it's somewhat related to the charge indicator light. The green with red stripe from the voltage regulator goes into the wiring harness thru the firewall and as I mentioned before, comes in as 2 wires-yellow with black and stripe (instead of green with red stripe) and black.

The yellow and black stripe is connected to the back of the charge indicator light along with the black with green stripe wire. It is exactly as you described on this blog but instead of green with red stripe it's yellow with black stripe. There is no mention about this extra black wire even the '65 wiring diagram. I'm a little bit puzzled but I know you're on my side. Is there a chance that this black wire is actually black with a dark green stripe? If yes, could you count how many fuses are in the fuse box? If there are six fuses, instead of just five, and one of them is marked turn signals, then you have the main underdash harness of a car that originally came with a generator instead of an alternator. If that is the case, there are some major differences in the way that everything is wired. There is a possibility that this black wire had a stripe but I asked 3 other friends and they all said it's black like a resistor wire with no markings.