66 sedan delivery?

[hungrymonkey]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6236&item=4542873945&rd=1


looks a bit fishy to me. I live about 20 minutes south of this guy. I might go take a peek at it.

It kind of looks like a truck canopy fiberglassed to the body of a 66 coupe. It says that the car has 6700 miles or so. but it came with a 302?

 

[65ShelbyClone]

Thats a custom, not a prototype and definitely not a piece of history. It actually looks kinda late'70s-early '80s style to me and judging by the door glass, someone chopped up a late '66 fastback to do it.

 

[limey66]

I concur with 65ShelbyClone, it's a custom - if it were some long lost prototype it would have factory wheels, factory air cleaner, no louvres in the hood etc etc.

Misrepresentation, I think.

 

[shotsy]

I call Bull*****!!! looks like a deranged station wagon on steroids!!

 

[67coupestang]

definately WAS a fastback. no way in H#$% thats original. I highly doubt that color was on cars in 66 and look at the glass in the back. looks more like the back window from a broncoII or something not a 60's design

 

[ozstang65]

I've seen a better attempt somewhere once, by using a coupe - didn't look too bad. I've also seen a ute version, looked good in the pic but I got a 1:1 veiw one day and it was pretty rough.

The one on Ebay looks

 

[1320stang]

http://www.heidts.com/images/art10.pdf

http://www.jes-studios.com/mustang/Unique/unique.htm

It's

 

[68rustang]

It's BS. if it was a concept why would they use an old bodystyle for a 67 or 68 concept?

anybody care to invite the seller over to tell his side of the story?

 

[krash kendall]

This isn't the first time that car has been listed. I've seen the links from 1320 stang regarding the prototypes before along with some other ones including a magazine article about the build which was done in europe I believe. Something like six of them were built.

 

[a.vannoy]

Alot of cars like this were built by invitation from Ford for the kustom ford karavan. Ford and Shelby picked what they liked for production without ever really approving of the conversions. Some where 1966 4 wheel drives mustangs, others protypes of cars you would recognize in later years with some modifications (66 mustang III later became the 68 shelby) Mexican shelbys all mostly hardtops, scandanvian or norweigian shelbys also were made. Carroll was as big a whore for a buck back then as he is now ??Eleanor shelby???
Ford still does the custom ford caravan to this day.

 

[a.vannoy]

"The Ford Motor Company took an interest in Barris and invited him to take part in its famed Custom Car Caravan for which George built six cars and toured the country with them."
http://www.javelinamx.com/batmobile/batmania.htm

about the 12 paragraph down another Mustang that was designed then and not by ford was the Vivace made out of a (I think) 63 fastback mustang (mule)
(A Mule back then was a car not designed for production but as a concept)

 

['66 coupe]

http://www.heidts.com/images/art10.pdf

The guy that owns that car is in the Mustang club in my town. Looks a million times better than that redneckified ebay one. I just saw the completed car last week and have pics. If someone can downsize them, PM me and I'll e-mail them to you so they can be posted here.

As for the ebay one. Wouldn't a Station wagon version precede a sedan delivery version as far as prototypes? Then there goes the youth market.

 

[bgs66]

B.S on the ebay history part. There was one of those at the Silver Springs show this year. The guy didn't have a motor in it but it lookd pretty cool. There is a pic of it in one the past few months of Mustangs & Fords that has the Silver Springs story in it.