Darvo,

There are a few things that make me skeptical about this car:

Only 6 cylinder Mustangs had the four lug wheel design in 1968. They also came with a 7.25" differential, integral style as opposed to the design where the center section can be unbolted from the rear end housing.

If the car was a 289 originally, as the owner suggests, it would most likelyhave come with an 8-inch rear end and and five lugs all around. I believe that a 9-inch was also available that year for the high performance V-8s.

I don't think it's possible that the car came with a 289 V-8 and four lugs on each of the wheels. I also don't think that someone would do a modification going from the original five lug design to the four lug design.

What I could believe, because I've seen a few of these, is that someone dropped a 302 V-8 into a car originally designed as a six cylinder, and neglected to do all of the hard work necessary for upgrading the rear end, the suspension, the cooling, etc. Maybe they ran out of money. The V-8s came with a heavier-duty suspension, spindles and brakes.

This may be why the car, which appears to have a pretty good body (although it's hard to tell from the pictures what the condition of the sheet metal is under all of that glossy paint) is relatively inexpensive. It may be a project car that really wasn't completed.

For me personally, I saw value in buying a car that no one had every really modified before I got it. I just didn't want the headache of having to reverse engineer someone else's work.

 

I just re-read your last post and saw that the owner says it has an '85 rear end. (which could explain the four lugs in the rear). If there are also four lugs in the fron, I have to believe that those are original---which means that the car originally came with an inline six cylinder engine--there was no V-6 engine used in Mustangs in the '60s.

 

if you zoom in on the pic's it appears the front wheels are 5 lug

 

OK. So, you'd need to have two spare tires with this car, one on a four lug rim and one on a five lug rim?

What appears to be unusual in the history of this car is the decision to put a rear end from an 85 Mustang in it, with four lugs on the rear wheels. That explains the wheel design on this car--you'd have to look closely to notice that thefront and the rears are different.