[blueness]

Havent heard too much about these but thought id ask since I saw one on ebay? Whats soo special about them? 289 HiPo engine?

eBay Motors: Ford : Mustang (item 190221615489 end time May-18-08 09:55:05 PDT)


-Victor

[Jazzman310]

If I were to guess...I would say there were less of those made and it is the high performance engine. PLUS....That is the car from Gone in 60 Seconds..Elenor

[Jdom]

not necessarily, the eleanor had an entirely different body kit. but i believe it was a k code.

theyre not so special as you might think. k codes run around $20-30,000 whiel a shelby can go all the way to $200,000

[Jay H 237]

K codes were a high performance 289 4v. They were the highest HP offered motor for the Mustang until 1967 when the 390 4v (S code) was introduced and that became the K codes last year as only 472 were produced unlike the 28,800 S code 390s.

[yellow65]

id like to know whats so special about them myself my brother said its probly got something to do with the high performance but i know this is a bit off topic but heres a 1965 K code on ebay this is insane if only mine was a K code

eBay Motors: Ford : Mustang (item 320236930647 end time Apr-13-08 11:44:07 PDT)

[RedGTvert]

The engine is a high revving little monster. 271HP from the 289. Shelby managed to tweak it to 306 hp. For 65/66, they are highly desirable contrary to others opinions.

[andrewmp6]

That fastback is priced a little high the stripes on it are fugly and its got a 351 in it hope he still has the 289.

[blueness]

How can you tell if its really 1 of 427 made? Vin number or some other numbers on the body?

[Jazzman310]

Here is something else I found about the K code..

K-CODE MUSTANGS
Mustangs with the 289 V-8, 4 barrel, solid lifter, K-Code engine were available in the 1964-1/2, 1965, 1966, and 1967 model years. These 271 horsepower, high performance engines are today commonly referred to as “Hi-Po” engines. The Hi-Po engine was a factory option in coupes, convertibles, and fastbacks. Non-GT and GT Mustangs had this engine available. The 1964-1/2 and 1965 Hi-Po Mustangs were only available with the 4-speed manual transmission. 1966 and 1967 Hi-Po Mustangs were available with either a 4-speed manual or special C-4 automatic.

1. K-Code Mustangs were approximately ¾ of 1% of 1965 and 1966 production. This included coupes, convertibles, and fastbacks in GT and non-GT versions. It is easy to see just how rare these Mustangs are.
2. K-Code GT Mustangs can command as much as a 50% premium over A-Code GT Mustangs of the same body style.
3. Approximately 50% of K-Code engines were serial numbered to the car. However, all engines were date coded and carried a casting number. Matching numbers cars are more valuable cars than K-Code cars without their original K-Code engine.

[Veronica]

Hello. That's actually pretty reasonable for that car on ebay. I just sold my 65 K code fastback a few months ago to a nice man in California. The car was by no means a number one car. More like a really nice number three car. The paint was pretty tired, the interior was even more tired, but it didn't have any rust, and had all original sheet metal and the original motor, tranny and rear end. It also still had all of the real expensive stuff, like the original carb, balancer, main bearing caps, motor mounts and fan. I wasn't trying to sell it or anything. He heard from a friend of friend about a friend of mine that new that I had the car. Somehow or another he managed to track me down and basically begged me to sell him the car for 50K, when, in it's condition at the time, it was only really worth something in the high thirties. The point of all this being that K codes were very rare back in the 60s, and to find a good one now is extremely difficult to do. So difficult that this guy was willing to invest a fair amount of time and effort to track down someone half-way across the country that wasn't advertising a car as being for sale, based solely on rumors of a real K code.
As a side note, all of the K code motors were vin stamped. There was a time when that was common knowledge, but over the last 5 or 10 years, you've had a whole bunch of people piece together correctly date-coded components and swear up and down that it's the original motor, and there isn't really any way to conclusively refute that. It is possible that a couple of them, as in two or three, slipped through the cracks and didn't get vin stamped, but even that is unlikely. We are talking about a motor that came with a 90 day/4000 mile warranty. Ford new what they were building, and that the first thing that people were going to do when they got the car would be to work just as hard as they possibly could to blow that motor up. Many were successful.

[kens67mustang]

Elenaor was a fabbed up car, that used quite a few '67/'68 fastbacks, and fiberglass used that was bought from Tony Branda, here in Pa& modified for the movie by CVS.......nothing special about any of the cars in the movie.

Fastbacks are selling like hotcakes, that one would go for over 15,000.00 easily.

[RedGTvert]

Originally Posted by blueness

How can you tell if its really 1 of 427 made? Vin number or some other numbers on the body?

67, Marti report is available on the car.

[andrewmp6]

It only sold for 14k thats kinda cheap for a driving fastback.

[Veronica]

Hi again. One of the reasons that the car sold cheap was that the original motor that was in storage and came along with the car isn't the original motor. It also isn't a K code motor. That would raise all sorts of interesting questions about the authenticity of the car. Not being a real car will knock the bottom out of the selling price.

[razr3215]

hey everyone i just got my hands on a 1967 mustang and was wonderinf how u find out if it is a k code model?