I agree with you on that 100% I saw one on ebay (just the shell no engine tranny interior) just bondo and new fenders and it was going for $2,600.00
but personally I dont plan to restore it and then sell it, I love classics always wanted one saw that chance to get a piece of history and grabbed it.

Thanks, I do understand its going to take alot...but im willing to spend and put the hours of grinding, welding, waiting, for that final outcome. If it takes me 5 years oh well at least things will be getting done correct rather than someone doing crap welds trying to cut corners to finish it quicker.

 

That's not a '64.5 Mustang. It's a '66 coupe 200 inline 6.

 

I belive grant is right about it being a 66 looking at the some of the chrome, gas cap and quater panel ornaments and the dash gauges, 64.5-66 you sound determined to make it a nice road worth car so all credit to you and good luck with it.

 

Yeah, the gauge pod is certainly from a 66. The 64.5 would look like my 65. Get the VIN numbers and decode it.

 

I had my dad check the buck tag and he decoded it from a site and it truely is a 64 1/2, he says they could of swapped the cluster but yeah a few other things I checked out were the same here
But the tag did it for me. just so everyone knows.

 

No doubt, the car pictured above is a '66. A '64.5 model cannot be identified by any of the features cited in Jim Smart's article. Almost every feature either ended before the '64.5s ended or continued through into '65 production. The only true indicators of a '64.5 are:

1. Generator charging system (the pictures of the car above show an alternator - definitely not a '64.5).
2. VIN sequence number:

If it's a Dearborn car with a 2nd character of "F", any sequence of 250000 or below is a '64.5.
If it's a San Jose car with a 2nd character of "R", any sequence of 125000 or below is a '64.5.
If it's a Metuchen car with a 2nd character of "T", it's definitely not a '64.5 since Metuchen did not make any '64.5s

If your VIN starts with a "6", it's a '66 model.

You also mention a buck tag. No '64.5s had buck tags. If you mean the door warranty plate, post the numbers here and we can correctly decipher it for you.

 

Also, check to see if the VIN in the door warranty plate matches the VIN stamped on the inner fender. It's possible the car has a donor driver's door from a '64.5 with its corresponding warranty plate. The VIN stamped on the inner fender is the actual one for the car.