by waaytoomuchintothis » Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:37 pm
Denny, the green car is a 1965, the "corral" around the Pony in the grill being the clue. If the modeling is accurate, the gas cap on the gold car is a '66 (no front grill to identify it), but there is a racing style gas cap on the rear deck, as there is also one on the green car, which has no gas cap in the usual place, which is consistent with a racer ("R series" production). Based on this, the green car is a 1965 R Series, built for racing fastback, and the gold car is a 1966 (round gas cap), with a supurfluous race-style rear deck gas inlet. Note that all fastbacks and GT's had no chrome trim on the side panel scoops, whereas the normal coupes and convertibles did. Everything changed on the 1967s and forward. My '65 coupe had chrome on the side scoops, and a corral around the pony, and the gas cap was a large knobbed unit between the taillights. It was an "K" series, which was the "hot" or "high performance" engine, in a normal car, not a GT. There were four engine series from the beginning of the Mustang; the V-8 260 in 1964-1/2 (same as the Monte Carlo winning Falcon Futura), the 1965 2bbl 289, the A series- 4bbl normal 289, the K series- 4bbl high performance, and R series, not sold to the general public. How's that for more than you ever wanted to know?