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65' MUSTANG COUPE (C-CODE) 289CI V8 AUTO FOR SALE
UK registered, metallic silver/ grey with black interior, and in my care for the last 5 years. During that time it’s been maintained and sorted by Steve Gilby Classics, Mark Wilby (ex Bentley) and American Autoparts Redhill. Its been serviced annually and MOT'd while I’ve owned it.
Have spent £8k+ getting it to where it is now, mainly on the all important mechanical side — brakes, steering, engine, including strip down, clean and rebuild with the addition of an Edelbrock 4 barrel carb, new alternator, rewiring work plus general sorting to make this a very solid, usable car. Many pages of receipts and pictures of its restoration from its import to its current condition available. The car was resprayed in 2021, starts first time, runs smoothly (and lively!) and lives garaged on a trickle charger. Pulls and accelerates beautifully and always makes me smile. I have also added a Bluetooth / DAB radio.
It’s a really nice honest car, not a concours one, and I’d rather describe it that way than oversell it but if you're after a pretty damn original 65' that has had a lot of time, money spent and care already, you'll be pleased. Work still to be done, passenger side window requires resetting on its pins though does open and close partially, petrol gauge drops from quarter full to zero even with a quarter tank of fuel (common issue) but still works and I was about to upgrade the working fine exhausts with two new bespoke boxes and pipes (mid section to tip at Redhill Classics which will cost around £600 all in) though new buyer may want to add even more V8 gurgle, so will wait on this bit for now. In depth receipts of work done and history available on request. Open to sensible offers. Selling due to changing and expanded family needs. I always wanted an early Mustang, not just for the look but because its the smallest and most practical for driving on British roads. I bought this as a light project from Oakwood classics during the dark days of Covid and regularly popped into their shop while they got what was a freshly imported untidy car up to a fresh and drivable standard (Many pictures available for this bit of the history). After this, I decided to make sure from the off that the focus needed to be on the engine as reliability was and is key to me, so it immediately then went into American Autoparts in Redhill for a good few weeks (and just shy of £3k worth of work) for an engine strip down, clean, grease and finally tune (pictures available). Every year since I've had something done on it that has helped improve it. Biggest mistake was adding a cheap electronic ignition system back in 2024 which ruined the reliability, so we ripped that out and put the classic distributor back in and its been very happy since then. Been an absolute blast getting it to where it is today. The feeling of firing it up and driving along with that American V8 gurgle soundtrack is addictive, very satisfying and I'll miss it.
