rev up your engines today I'm gonna tell you why
buying this 65 Mustang GT maybe a better idea than buying even a new one it's got that
289 Ford v8 engine even though it's a v8 look at the working room there's all
kinds of working room on this thing you check out a modern Mustang there's no
working room you can barely get your hand between the engine and the side of
the fenders that thing's in there tight these there's all kinds of room and even
though this vehicle is 55 years old this thing's got a worn-out ignition switch
no surprise after all these years I mean one phone call auto parts store they had
one in stock I thought argot or no it's even in stock
back in today's cars are simpler they shared many similar parts so a classic
like this Mustang a lot of auto parts stores will have parts in stock form
because they'll fit so many of the classic cars that their customers are
either fixing up or they check to see if parts are available and they found that
whoa all kinds of parts are available very reasonable prices to an advantage
of these older cars or you can modify them to your heart's content it's not
all that computer crap you have to deal with look at this this is modernized
with the modern air conditioning system the guy did a really good job the lines
even came through a regular line they didn't drill any holes so you can put
modern conveniences on these things not that expensive you can modify
performance yes this isn't the stock carburetor
the stock carburetors we're all that great but a modern Edelbrock like this
that's what I always tell people to put on them very good carburetors they're
brand new they have four bolts and hold them on you can easily do these
modifications yourself here's something you don't see every day
this even has an inch oak I'm speaking of transmissions this is the GT this now
has a five-speed standard transmission on the stock transmission was a
three-speed standard and they had an option of a four-speed standard this is
an aftermarket 5-speed standard works great you get a little more um
because realize this is a 289 it's only 289 cubic inches so it puts out 210
horsepower which is a lot back in the day and 65 but today a car sets peanut
horsepower a stock 2020 fastback it puts out 460 you can pump up a lot but the
stock one puts on 460 but it starts to $36,000 this thing starting at 2400
dollars and even with inflation taking it to a conference 65 that's less than
$18,000 a current money these things we're real bargain and they're days and
even today these things can be a bargain if you use your head and think I'm not a
fanatic I'm not one of these original matching numbers guy where everything's
got a match because this modern air conditioning conversion kit works better
than the old one the more modern five-speed standard transmission works
better than the original one so I can actually be more dependable at less cost
a true classic that turns heads a 65 Mustang 55 years later it's still
turning heads still running good now you look at a modern Mustang 55 years from
now I truly dot that there's gonna be that many of them still doing good
because of the use of plastic all the cheap plastic parts you're not cracking
break chrome-plated door handles real Chrome not plastic that's chrome plated
metal that's chrome plated the classic look on the pony car in chrome
you can't find this in a modern car just don't make them that way anymore if you
get one of these and take care of it hey the value either stays the same or
generally appreciates over time where you buy a new hopped-up lunch for 40 45
grand or more its value stars dropping right away
now sure they made a whole bunch of these things back in 65 they sold almost half
a million Mustangs in 65 but in those days people didn't think about getting a
car and keeping it in a box and not driving it so the value appreciates a
lot of them are wrapped around trees a lot of them rotted up there real prone
to rust that's why if you buy used one you want to check and good to see if
the frame is solid but in those days people drove them and wrecked them or they wore them out it
and they'd junk them and then got another car they weren't thinking about hey 50 years
down the line this thing might be worth a lot of money I know a guy ran an auto
parts store he bought a whole fleet of these things
for delivering auto parts to garages cuz they were so cheap and he told me the
other day I said oh man I wish I would've kept that fleet of them they'd
be worth a fortune today and since I said it's so popular and a lot of the
parts of the older parts are interchangeable you can get parts of
these things no problem at all and they're not all that expensive as long
as you're not going to original equipment stuff where you want to keep
it all original then the sky's the limit how much money you're gonna spend yeah
this isn't the original paint job it's been painted over God knows how many
times like I said you can modify like you want take this old one it still got
plain old drinks there's no power booster here but you can add that on if
you want this thing's already been modified so much it's not original all
matching so just like the radiator it's got a swanky all metal aluminum radiator
dissipates heat better if there's one thing the early Mustangs had problems
with is if you had air conditioning on it and you lived here in Texas in Texas
on your driving stop-and-go traffic it's 100 degrees outside and a tendency about
reading an eye and all the truth about why the 65 Mustang might be a better
deal than a new one it's gonna turn more heads and it definitely is not going to
lose depreciation the next 5-10 years like I new one would, so if you never
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