It is neat that you had the information on the car. A car is only original once and after that you don't know what you have. There is a local man here that purchased a 65 mustang new and has put over 1,000,000 mile on it yes one million. Several engines and lots of work. He had it totally restored and you would think it was hardly driven looks brand new. I agree that there are more people trying to make something out a pieced together mustang and say it is totally original.
Great info.
David
I as thinking could it have been an assembly line thing? My car was made in Dearborn where was yours made? Could it have been color specific? When you google 1973 mustang mach 1 and look at the pictures some have it and some do not. I think I only saw one of the silver stripe ones that had silver light frame and painted under.David, I'm not doubting youI am sure there could have been a change but mine was made late in May of 73. There is no way I could have peeled the stripe off painted it and put the stripe back on. I can take pictures of the marker light in back to show it has never been off. The frame on the light was factory black also.
I have been at assembly plants and things get missed or left off but even if they did not paint under the stripe black the frame should have been. Maybe we should look at VIN#s and see if we can find a break point. The low mileage one on ebay was also black. Another mystery to study!
Went looking at 73 brochure and there are pictures of two with blacked out side lights. The small picture in the corner looks like color but cannot tell for sure. I am 100% sure that mine and other were black. My car was shown one time in an MCA national show in unrestored and they did not say anything about the lights being incorrect but said lots of fasteners were and the car had never been apart. That is the reason it go put in a barn in 1983 I do not do politics, lol.
David
Mine is an early car
Don't go by what you seen in the sales lit as 100% correct
It will be another one of those things that will never find a reason unless someone has the work instructions from the assembly plants.
When the QS and ISO certifications started years ago most of that info got trashed to clean up the systems.
Be neat if we could locate one of those inspectors that put the yellow stamps all over the car maybe they could shed some light.
David
Secluff - not exactly what you mentioned, but check this out:
http://www.7173mustangs.com/thread-audio-interview-with-ford-assembly-line-worker-who-worked-there-in-1972-3
Ray
...strange that the original Ebay ad calls out the bodystyle as a "coupe", ( which it's not ), and the interior color as "cinnamon", ( it's Ginger isn't it? ).......
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