so i am looking at thevin on the title, and it has a "A" in the vin and on the car, so i am assuming i have a A code car,...

its a 1966 GT convertible, i recently got the car from a uncle who said it was a hipo car,...which i thought was a K code? right?

when removing the original fenders today something caught my eye,...there were 289 high performance emblems on the fenders along with the GT emblems and "mustang" lettering,...

this car was stock and never touched, uncle was the original owner,...is it possible to have a hipo a code? are there any numbers i can look at on the block?

kind of confused on this,...

https://mustangforums.com/m_4107219/tm.htm

there is a link to some of the pics,...??????????????totally confused

 

it will have a k code in the vin www.mustangdecoder.com

 

that is what i thought, until today when i removed those emblems off the fenders and saw "289 high performance",..i will take pics of emblems tomorrow and post them

 

It has to be a K code car to have a factory 289/271. Does it have a solid lifter cam? Does it have valve spring pockets in the heads? Does it have a wide harmonic balancer on the crank? If the answer is no to any of these questions, it's not a HiPo. In addition, it should have a dual point distributor without a vacuum advance. It should also have HiPo exhaust manifolds. This should help: http://www.hipomustang.com/images/hipoeng/

 

the guy i bought my car from thought it was a "K" code just because it was a 4barrel carb car,you can buy emblems like cobra etc just like you could 30yrs ago they are easily added

 

GT package could only be ordered w/ A or K code cars. What tranny do you have. Hi-Po was only cruise-O- matic and 4 speeds.Worse comes to worse, see if you have solid lifters.

 

I bought my first Mustang in 1972. A silver 66 fastback that was a real A code/4 spd.GT. The front disc brakes were a pita. Anyhow, the first thing I did was get a set of "High Performance" emblems for the front fenders. BTW, I paid all of $650.00 for that car and it was in excellent shape.

 

i know for a fact it has cruise o matic tranny, when i took the center console out to take pics, it is stated on the shifter bezel...

and i know there is no way my uncle would have put these emblems on the car,...

 

Just decode the door tag they never lie fender badges are easy to buy and put on same with the gt ones.

 

so are door tags[8D] the vin uderfood is the only legal vin theres one visible one and one under the right fender you cant see technically all of them should match but wrecks happen aprons and doors can be changed