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    I guess it’s all I being in the right place at the right time and recognizing it.

    I’m not sure I would have looked at that coupe and thought it was something special. I would have thought a rotted out California Special.


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    Very cool! It amazes me how many cool and rare cars are still out there to be found. So many old school junkyards are disappearing rapidly.

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    That is cool. Will be neat to see how it turns out.
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    We have been talking about it all night at work.
    It would take some big dollars to find all the parts to put it back...
    Cool car.

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    figures those rich bastards found it!wish it had been some regular schmuck like us.

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    it was in Dearborn this weekend at Woodward then at the Mustang Sunday. WOW is it rough. Also get to hear and see the Real Bullet car just found, plus the 10million car and 1st sold Another Great event this year
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    That couple with the first one sold would've possibly gone to their graves with the car perhaps never being recognized had some other person (who has since become non-existant) told everyone who would listen that HE had the first car purchased. Someone published it and The husband saw it and read the date of purchase and then realized nope. You do not own the first one sold, LOL. I DO! At that point, it was sitting broken down and in need of much repair in an unheated garage for decades. That was the motivation to restore it and tell their story. I have not met him but I met her. Sweetest lady there ever was. They raised kids in that car.

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    At FWHQ Sunday 8/19/18

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    Important part of Mustang Shelby history. The first of any car is special. Mules included.
    Gonna take bucks to restore that junker. Pretty well stripped.
    Then figure out how to config it. Prob never really had one fixed setup.
    Were too many fine cars nearby to do anything more than touch it, take a pic, and move on.
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    I don't understand this whole first mustang story. The first mustang was bought buy a Canadian airline pilot (whose name I can't remember) and Ford spent a year or so convincing him to take a rand new 66 Mustang in trade so they could get the car back. As far as I know it resides permanently at the Henry Ford Musuem. The salesman didn't know (or was just greedy) the car was not supposed to be sold.

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    I can't help resenting guys having that kind of money at times, but it takes that kind of moola to preserve parts of our history, even though this car is mostly just a footnote to me. These are the type of people who restore and maintain WWII aircraft which are much more than footnotes, at least to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dagenham View Post
    I don't understand this whole first mustang story. The first mustang was bought buy a Canadian airline pilot (whose name I can't remember) and Ford spent a year or so convincing him to take a rand new 66 Mustang in trade so they could get the car back. As far as I know it resides permanently at the Henry Ford Musuem. The salesman didn't know (or was just greedy) the car was not supposed to be sold.
    That was Stanley Tucker with serial number 1. I think this lady supposedly bought her car before he did?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tigger View Post
    That was Stanley Tucker with serial number 1. I think this lady supposedly bought her car before he did?
    Yes she did.
    Ford sent cars to the dealerships so that they could dramatically show them off on April 17, the first day they were SUPPOSED to be on sale.
    Some 22 year old went into a dealership on April 15 insisting that she wanted a convertible, didn't like anything in sight. So the salesman took her out back and showed her the 2 mustangs that they had hidden for the big reveal. They sold her one, the paperwork shows she left the dealership with it 2 days before Ford even wanted the public to see one.

    https://www.freep.com/story/money/ca...rth/956784002/

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    Weren't there three serial number 1 Mustangs?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TNT View Post
    Yes she did.
    Ford sent cars to the dealerships so that they could dramatically show them off on April 17, the first day they were SUPPOSED to be on sale.
    Some 22 year old went into a dealership on April 15 insisting that she wanted a convertible, didn't like anything in sight. So the salesman took her out back and showed her the 2 mustangs that they had hidden for the big reveal. They sold her one, the paperwork shows she left the dealership with it 2 days before Ford even wanted the public to see one.

    https://www.freep.com/story/money/ca...rth/956784002/
    Ok. Now I understand. Apparently I did not hear the whole story.

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    Nice car, great color combo. If you decide to sell the rims please let me know.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FoxChassis View Post
    Weren't there three serial number 1 Mustangs?

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    This is a very good question. At first, only Dearborn manufactured the Mustang (Ford anticipated building only 100K Mustangs the first year). San Jose came online several months later in July of '64 to help ease the load, and finally Metuchen was added in 1965.

    Supposedly this is the first Mustang built in SJ; http://67mustangblog.com/wp-content/...blyLine-71.jpg
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