Rare Pre-Production Ford Mustang Convertible Pops Up For Sale
Most Ford Mustang fans are familiar with the fact that while 1965 is considered the pony car’s first year of production, some cars were built earlier than that. Around 150-200 pre-production Mustang examples came off the line at the Ford Dearborn Assembly Plant and Allen Park plant from the winter of 1963 to early March of 1964, but most of those cars were raced, destroyed, and/or simply scrapped.
A total of 12 of those pre-production Mustang examples are known to still exist, however, and now one of them is up for sale at the DuPont Registry. Like its rare brethren, this car is easily identifiable by its 05C date code and the use of many unique parts and unconventional assembly practices that differentiate it from mass-produced Mustangs of the era.
This particular pre-production Mustang was sold back in May of 1967 to a man who then kept it in his family’s possession for 39 years. His son took ownership of the car in 2000 before selling it in 2006. The new owner then commissioned a concours-quality, nut-and-bolt restoration for the special Mustang in 2008.
