classicsguy
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A little bit of research indicates the 'W' code is for a 427 Side oiler. Unfortunately the consensus is there were no mustangs produced with this engine (Except for one Shelby), but there were a number of 68 Cougars produced with the 'W' code.Hey the drugs are working I am not even talking to the guy. There will be a big crash on these cars in next two years my palm reader tells me.
David
Speaking of odd codes. Do you know what a 1968 W code is. I was talking to an old timer in the area yesterday and he says he has one.
David
I knew it was just thought I would perk up some interest. He says it is original and there was one in Spartanburg at Jerry Masons place back about 1996. His dad worked for Bud Moore and got some really strange cars.A little bit of research indicates the 'W' code is for a 427 Side oiler. Unfortunately the consensus is there were no mustangs produced with this engine (Except for one Shelby), but there were a number of 68 Cougars produced with the 'W' code.Hey the drugs are working I am not even talking to the guy. There will be a big crash on these cars in next two years my palm reader tells me.
David
Speaking of odd codes. Do you know what a 1968 W code is. I was talking to an old timer in the area yesterday and he says he has one.
David
kinda sounds like it was a magazine test car that was setup to be a ringer::thumb::I purchased a 68 Torino GT fastback with an S code 390 many years ago.
It is serial number 00054 and was built in August of 1967.
It has a transportation service DSO and was sold as new by a dealer in Florida in 1970.
When we tore into it everything seemed to be original and untouched even the engine looked to be original to the car. Except the engine was a 427 not a 390.
All the casting numbers and dates matched to a May or June built 427 and to much was correct for it to be a later engine swap.
I still have the car. Marti report shows it as a S code 390. I have always wondered about the history behind this car.
I do know that some one, some where, thinks that the 390 in his Torino was one hell of an engine.
Paul of MO
It is in a 68 Mach 1. I am sure Jerry Mason has one. I was invited to show a car at the BMW plant for the 100 year anniversary car in about 1993. They picked cars from each year one each. You submitted pictures of your car and they sent you a letter if you were chosen. I was picked for the 1950 year with a Ford Custom 2 door with 16,000 original miles in un restored condition. They lined the cars up in order by year so you could go down the line and see each year model. There was a 67 or 68 Mach 1 with 427 in the show. I think it was Mason's car but cannot remember. I took some pictures back then but they are buried in the hoard somewhere.David, if you get to chance to visit the "Old Timers" hoard, please do. I would be very interested to hear what body the "W" code is in. Though rare, I have seen a couple of 68 GTE Cougars with the 427. One belongs to a friend who has an unbelievable stash of rare and "Sleeper" big block Ford's, but has also sworn me to secrecy about his location. The 68 427 was listed for Torino and Mustang in the parts catalog but have never seen any. My 68 Mustang sales brochure also lists the 390 horse 427 (along with the Tunnel Port 302). The owners son at the local Ford dealer claims to have had one through a special order due to their connections with the "Right" people in the Charlotte DSO office. While still in high school and on the lot car shopping (with my part time after school job-mostly looking) I remember a Lime Gold 68 GT with 427 emblems on the hood scoop. Years later when I was employed at that same dealer, I tried to research that vehicle. Unfortunately by the time I arrived there (late 75) the sales records from 1970 back had been purged. The son claims it was a genuine "W" car but there is no paper work to prove it. Another strange oddity is the 1969 Mustang part number on the 427 hood scoop emblem. So if the opportunity arises, please make a research trip. You don't have to buy anything!!!
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