https://dyler.com/cars/ford/mustang-for-sale/1966/19832/ford-mustang-coupe-1966-beige-for-sale
Agree. It just says "Drive Me".
Quote from: Royce Peterson on August 24, 2020, 09:11:58 AM
Agree. It just says "Drive Me".
+1. People dig these cars when they show up at shows or cruise nights. Appreciate it for what it is.
Thanks for posting, I would just leave it as it is, maybe a mechanical refresh of engine internals.
Isn't that Stacey Keach, who was Sgt. Stedenko in Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke ;) ?
Have to like that six cylinder smog too
It has potential
Well, at least we know by the license frame that the guy's other car is a Porsche.
The black-and-yellow CA plate's letter sequence is typically more correct for a later car than a '66. Unless it wasn't first sold until early 1967.
(That delayed-sale is entirely possible, considering it's a notchback with 6-cyl and automatic. It probably clung to the dealer lot like a barnacle until someone like "Mary Richards" came along to love it.)
^^^ she drove a lime green '69 or '70 notchback if memory serves -
- Phillip
How about this one?
https://binghamton.craigslist.org/cto/d/1966-mustang-gt/7173274680.html
Real GT
Quote from: propayne on August 24, 2020, 04:29:21 PM
^^^ she drove a lime green '69 or '70 notchback if memory serves -
- Phillip
Yes, a '70, but I believe it was white.
^^^ well, memory partially served me ;D
- Phillip
propayne your memory is good ;) getting a bit off topic here ! but hey folks that's entertainment !
Mike
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/features/cc-tv-the-cars-of-the-mary-tyler-moore-show/
Quote from: Side-Oilers on August 24, 2020, 04:18:44 PMThe black-and-yellow CA plate's letter sequence is typically more correct for a later car than a '66. Unless it wasn't first sold until early 1967.
My 66 delivered in February had SRL 393. My sisters 68 GT/CS she bought new in April 69 was ZAZ 235. Letter sequences can be all over the map. They were sent to DMV offices in batches and some ran through them faster than others. The black plate replaced the yellow ones and everyone had to take their plates to DMV and swap them for the new ones. Which is why after only 3 years they were already getting to T. Once they ran through all of them in 1969 the reversed the letters and numbers 123 SAM and started over. When those got done the finally added another number 1 SAM 123.
Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on August 24, 2020, 09:01:35 PM
Quote from: Side-Oilers on August 24, 2020, 04:18:44 PMThe black-and-yellow CA plate's letter sequence is typically more correct for a later car than a '66. Unless it wasn't first sold until early 1967.
My 66 delivered in February had SRL 393. My sisters 68 GT/CS she bought new in April 69 was ZAZ 235. Letter sequences can be all over the map. They were sent to DMV offices in batches and some ran through them faster than others. The black plate replaced the yellow ones and everyone had to take their plates to DMV and swap them for the new ones. Which is why after only 3 years they were already getting to T. Once they ran through all of them in 1969 the reversed the letters and numbers 123 SAM and started over. When those got done the finally added another number 1 SAM 123.
Yes, I concur. I grew up in SoCal (I think I remember your writing somewhere that you did too) and always knew the plate numbers of all the cars in my neighborhood. A pal of mine who's even more of a CA license plate fanatic than I am, also agrees that each local DMVs got stacks of plates that they handed out in the order who whomever was standing in line at the time...like nowadays. But, did you know that the DMV offices located closest to Sacramento got (at least initially, in '63) the lower alphabet first letter? "A"s and "B"s were allotted to offices closest to Sacramento. True.
In '63, as you correctly noted, all existing 1956 yellow plates were replaced by the '63 black/yellow versions, but the cars sold (or brought into CA) in 1963 thru late '69 simply received the top of the local DMV stack of plates. It is thus rather easy to correlate letters to the year the car was sold, or brought into CA.
In my experience, a '66 car sold new in CA could have anything between Q - S for a first letter. 1967 was typically T through U, '68 was V through X, while Y and Z were typically cars sold or brought into the state in 1969 (like your sister's GT/CS.) My dad bought a new 1970 Brand X car in late Sept '69 and received the new blue and yellow plate with "ADA" as the alpha sequence.
The confusion for many sellers claiming an "original black and yellow" plate on a car they've not owned since new, is that (as mentioned above) cars that came into CA as used cars would get the latest plate-alphabetical available. Same with any later series of plates.
Likewise it's funny to see a seller claiming that (for example) a plate starting in "C" is original to their '67 car. No way. Someone bought the plate
somewhere and registered it to the car. Not original.
One minor correction to your recollection: The 1956 yellow/black plates did not necessarily have to be turned in to the DMV in order to get the 1963 series. Neither of my parents' cars at the time had their '56 plates turned in. I know because I put them on my Schwinn. We lived in Playa del Rey at the time (it's at the beach near LAX, for those not familiar) and received black and yellow plates with "FYJ."
That's probably more than anyone would ever want to know about CA license plates.
Quote from: honker on August 24, 2020, 08:10:01 PM
propayne your memory is good ;) getting a bit off topic here ! but hey folks that's entertainment !
Mike
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/features/cc-tv-the-cars-of-the-mary-tyler-moore-show/
Judging by the screen-grab photos in that link, Mary's humble Mustang had been on the wrecker's hook at least once. (The bent-up front fascia is the giveaway to me.)
Quote from: Side-Oilers on August 24, 2020, 09:22:42 PM
We lived in Playa del Rey at the time (it's at the beach near LAX, for those not familiar) and received black and yellow plates with "FYJ."
In Hawthorne, also near LAX, the three cars my parents owned in 1963 were issued GHT 460, 461, and 462.
Quote from: Royce Peterson on August 24, 2020, 09:11:58 AM
Agree. It just says "Drive Me".
I have a similar 65 A Code Coupe, a bit rougher but that is the plan...
Quote from: honker on August 24, 2020, 09:58:04 AM
Thanks for posting, I would just leave it as it is, maybe a mechanical refresh of engine internals.
Me too....my plans for my 65 Coupe.
Quote from: honker on August 24, 2020, 09:58:04 AM
Isn't that Stacey Keach, who was Sgt. Stedenko in Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke ;) ?
Class......classssss......classsssssssssss
Quote from: Side-Oilers on August 24, 2020, 09:22:42 PM
Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on August 24, 2020, 09:01:35 PM
Quote from: Side-Oilers on August 24, 2020, 04:18:44 PMThe black-and-yellow CA plate's letter sequence is typically more correct for a later car than a '66. Unless it wasn't first sold until early 1967.
My 66 delivered in February had SRL 393. My sisters 68 GT/CS she bought new in April 69 was ZAZ 235. Letter sequences can be all over the map. They were sent to DMV offices in batches and some ran through them faster than others. The black plate replaced the yellow ones and everyone had to take their plates to DMV and swap them for the new ones. Which is why after only 3 years they were already getting to T. Once they ran through all of them in 1969 the reversed the letters and numbers 123 SAM and started over. When those got done the finally added another number 1 SAM 123.
The confusion for many sellers claiming an "original black and yellow" plate on a car they've not owned since new, is that (as mentioned above) cars that came into CA as used cars would get the latest plate-alphabetical available.
One minor correction to your recollection: The 1956 yellow/black plates did not necessarily have to be turned in to the DMV in order to get the 1963 series. Neither of my parents' cars at the time had their '56 plates turned in. I know because I put them on my Schwinn. We lived in Playa del Rey at the time (it's at the beach near LAX, for those not familiar) and received black and yellow plates with "FYJ."
Another way to tell if old black plates were added later is DMV charges the basic personalized rate for them. My 59 Stude still has it's black replacement plates it got in 63 so no added fee. We were in West Covina our plates were JEP. Cleaning out to move shortly I came across about 40 of those little CA if lost drop in the mail box plates some companies sent you to put on your key ring. I kept the original plates for my Hertz car by telling them they had been lost/stolen when I picked up the personalized ones.