my68302

We need help finding out what color my '68 Mustang is. We know it was built in San Jose and sold in Chico, California. The numbers for the DSO read 721185. We have not been able to find out what the 1185 is. The car itself is an odd yellow with a greenish tinge to it.

The plate reads 65A (body) blank (color) 2U (trim) 16B (date) 721185 (DSO) 5 (axle) W(trans).

We have been searching for two months with no luck. The car has been scanned by Dupont, but could not give me a color name or number. MARTI, at this point, has not been able to help us. We have searched paint chip pages of Dupont, PPG and Ditzler but did not find our color. The car is in unbelievable original condition. It has always been kept in a garage and has never been damaged. Any help would be appreciated. We are at a loss of what to do next.
Please view the picture of the car.

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1968coupe

Hi!
A year ago I bought a '68 Mustang coupe and was puzzled by the warranty number. The paint code was blank. I started researching it online and saw the picture of your car on another website with the warranty number. Mine too was a special paint, orange with a black "C" stripe. And, apparently, your car and mine went down the San Jose assembly line together. Mine too was built on 16B, February 16, 1968. They might have been ordered by the same dealer. I don't know because I haven't done a Marti report yet. Here's the warranty info. 65A (coupe), "blank" (color), 2A (trim, standard, black), 16B (built 2/16/68), 721187 (DSO, San Jose District Special Order #1187), 2 (axle, 2.79:1) 5 (trans, 4 speed). As you can see your DSO number of 1185 was only two apart. The VIN is 8R01C1393**, mine came with the 289, yours the "J" code 302. I'd be curious to see how closeyour VIN sequenceis to mine.
Unfortunately, mine wasn't in as good a shape as yours. My son and I have it totally disassembled now and are restoring it. By the way, have you looked for the build sheet? It was sometimes stuffed up under one of the seats. Alas, after totally disassembling ours we haven't found it. Also, sometimes there will be a "buck tag", a small metal plate attached near the passenger side hood hinge on the fender apron with the paint code, but my information is that only the Dearborn and Metuchen plants did that, and not the San Jose plant. Well, good luck, and I'd sure like to hear anything you've found out about the "twin".

1967inline6MUSTANG

how cool i was born on 2/16/68..

dcohen

looks yellow to me[&:]

65Raven65

Could it be possible that it was repainted a non original color? I dont see that color on the 68 color chart. Just a guess.

http://www.svs.com/zim/mustang/68colors.html
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RolandT3Speed

Could still be a Ford color even if it's not a Mustang color. Need to check the whole 1968 Ford color chart.
If it truly is the original paint.

fast65

So was I, except I was born 22 years later.

mustangmatt63

I would check ALL FORD PAINT COLORS for 68,my guess is that it was special ordered this color and it is another Ford Color but not a Stang Color.Good Luck!!

pochogzo0727

Hi, i am trying to bring back the posts about rainbow series mustangs. is anyone still following this post??? i have a 721185 DSO and im trying to find out more about the rainbow series mustangs