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1965 Le Mans Ferrari ended its 6 year run with a 1-2-3 finish

1966 Daytona 1st 24hr event Ford = 1-2-3
1966 Sebring 12hrs  Ford = 1-2-3
1966 Le Mans 24hrs  Ford = 1-2-3

after being so convincingly swept 0 for 3 in the Priemer endurance races that Ferrari had owned for 6 years, the 1967 Daytona Ford fiasco of failing transaxles led to such a poor showing Ferrari really wanted to stick it to Ford.

But that result really motivated Ford to re-evaluate the MK-II program because they knew regardless of the transaxle issue the 330P3 was faster, so that drove the push to attempt to fix the J-car.

What Remington & crew accomplished in weeks in Dearborn using the "wind tunnel" in Remington's mind is incredible. At Sebring J-4 outclassed both Chaparral 2d and Ferrari 330P3!

1965 Le Mans winning Ferrari 250 LM  & P1032  comparison,  awsome audio

jim p

After a team of retired Ford engineers led the restoration including Mos Nowland,

RM Sotheby Miami auction, sold $13,205,000, the highest auction price ever paid for the model or a Ford.

jim p

additional photos

I came across these photos, don't recall seeing them before.

I leave it to the 1967 experts for comments

regards

jim p

"Ford had a small line (at Wixom?) where they would test assemble a few cars (100?) to test the tooling and fit."

Wixom was a Lincoln / Thunderbird assembly plant, then just prior to closing and teardown it build the 2005-2006 GT.

Allen Park Pilot Plant, (Oakwood Blvd & I-94) has been for decades a new production pilot build plant. The pre-production 64 Mustangs were built (semi-finished) there and then finished off at Dearborn Assy.
The approx. 180~200 "O5C" pre-production mustangs would fall into this group.
 The Allen Park Emissions Lab is just down (east) I-94 from the Pilot plant.

regards,

jim p

5R538 & 5R212 both competed @ 66 Daytona 24 hrs.

5R212 Kearney / Reina #90 finished 2nd GT +3.0 18th OA
5R538 R West / D Malcom #99 DNF

pure marketing bur some good historic footage

jim p

the last paragraph of the meeting minutes is mentioned "1968 396 aluminum engine"
I've never heard any mention of this before.
There was the 427 calliope 3 valve engine, but this does not sound like it's in any way associated.
 
any others familiar with this?

jim p

1965 color photos of CSX2093 in competition

enjoy
jim p

found a good clear dash photo on Ford Images
noted as 1966 Sebring testing, per Spain's book Jan 17~21 testing @ Sebring with P1016, so this could be P1016's dash?

jim p

The San Jose build dates in the registry confirm they are all 5R09K chassis.

Images from the internet show 5R535 and 5R536 with a 66 grill. Assuming an accurate restorations, that will make 6 with a 66 grill.   In fact the last batch of 14 R-models all had San Jose start dates of 4-20-65, from 5R527 to 5R540.   Again from the registry 5R528 is also noted with a 66 grill and side strip.  Making seven confirmed 66 grills.   This would suggest all 14 R-models from 4-20-65 got the 66 grill and 66 side stripe.  At least half of them did.

Cory

George Watters states that 5R528 definitely came with a '66 grill, as shown in this original photo at Waterford Hills:

Waterford Hills, Bill Clawson in 5R002 ??

so if I understand this ad,
  they have a vintage mustang with many vintage modifications that were typical of what was done in the past to mustangs used in competition?
  the car has clearly had VIN transferred from another body (state/federal offense? )
  they are trying to add "prototype GT350 R" attribute to boost value to an auction?

my simple conclusion is, this is:
an interesting vintage mustang with what appears to be vintage (back-in-the-day) race modifications, with troubling, possibly legal jeopardy VIN identification manipulation.

IF this was an authentic GT350 body then the RH apron SFMxxxxx stamping would be present OR it's removal evident!

otherwise it cannot claim to be anything other than an interesting old used mustang body

regards
jim p

Hi guys,
I have attached a page showing the rear brake parts for 65/66 GT350's. It was published in "The Marque" in the end of the seventies or beginning of the eighties. Don't know if I am correct on the name but I believe it was Roger Hodyka.
Texas Swede

TX Swede,
 I will claim authorship for that article in the Marque!
I was working at a Ford dealer in Farmington MI at the time and found a customer we had was a K/H engineer.
So I questioned him on the unique Shelby brake hardware, he is the one who told me the springs were functionally the same as the RPO Ford hardware, the difference was the springs were made to tolerate higher temps without loss of performance. "hi temp springs"

regards,

jim p 

Earl,  the 2 persons in front of the car in the photos are residents of Michigan,
so not likely who you are thinking of.
the guy in the yellow tee shirt and balding is deceased,
the guy in the other photo @ Motor City Region show at Ford HQ, is the owner of the 70 Boss 302 alongside 5S465.

jim p