Hello. That's a pretty neat car you have, assuming that you have the car and not just a build sheet. It's a 66 'A' code GT, 4-speed convertible,Ivy green with parchment/ palomono pony interior built in Metuchan, N.J. with a scheduled production date of oct 25, 1965, built for export and sale in France. I believe that's the D.S.O. for Nice, but I'm not positive about that. One thing that I am positive about would be that the original owner had some money. That would have been a pretty expensive car by the time it got to France. Hope that helps.
Hi again. It stands for district sales office. I used to know most of the ones in Germany and France when I was restoring these cars for a living, but, I seem to be getting a bit foggy on some of the details now, since I'm no longer doing that all day, every day. When you see a door tag with a d.s.o. of 9 something, that's an export car, and it that was usually followed by a three or four digit code to tell you where. The d.s.o. code on the door tag of that one would have been either 95401 or 950401, but probably 95401. Hope that helps.
Hi again. It stands for district sales office. I used to know most of the ones in Germany and France when I was restoring these cars for a living, but, I seem to be getting a bit foggy on some of the details now, since I'm no longer doing that all day, every day. When you see a door tag with a d.s.o. of 9 something, that's an export car, and it that was usually followed by a three or four digit code to tell you where. The d.s.o. code on the door tag of that one would have been either 95401 or 950401, but probably 95401. Hope that helps.
So you need the 3 or 4 digit code after the 9x number on the build sheet to know exactly where the car was destined for? Have you ever seen a list with a breakdown of these numbers?
I've seen a few of the export cars and have always wondered where they went originally. I made a list with the DSO 9x numbers but there isn't a clear pattern to it. The car above has a DSO 95 in France plus I know of a few other cars with a DSO 95 that are in Australia, two different areas of the planet. Guam, next to Australia, there was a 1968 fastback with DSO 90 there. No additional numbers following the "95" or "90" are on the door tags so I'm guessing they were on the build sheets only or these are regular production exports and not special optioned.
At the local shows near me there is a 67 fastback with a 94 DSO. The owner has tried tracing the history but all he knows is the car was back in the States during the mid 80's and has no history before that, couldn't find prior owner to the person he bought it from. The speedometer is in kilometers (appears original to the car), has the export brace and other than that has no other visual differences from a regular Mustang. The car has never had a full restoration by the looks of it either.
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1968 Mustang coupe, Acapulco Blue, 289 2v, C-4, Power Steering.
Hopefully a 1969 convertible or Sportsroof (non Mach or Boss) for next Mustang project
Trying to find my father's 1973 Mustang Grande he bought brand new. 3F04F126773 last known registration and title was in New Jersey, 1982.
Hi again. That is correct. The first two numbers of the d.s.o. on this car could have been 9 anything.It's the rest of the d.s.o. that tells you where it went. The cars that only have the two digit nine something d.s.o. on the door tag also have, or did have originally, a tag the same size as the door tag on the d/s fender, on the lip where the fender bolts are, in the area of the hood hinge that had the rest of the code. I don't recall ever having ordered a Marti report on a car that went to europe, but I would assume that it would have where the car was sold originally on it, like it does for a car sold here. The guy with the 67 fastback must not have been trying very hard to research the history of his car. The km per hour speedo would be correct for a car sold in europe, if it was actually intended to be sold to a european. Just to make things interesting, Ford had basically two different models of export cars.The cars being sold to american service personel stationed in europe didn't have many of the oddities of the cars intended for sale to the general public of the destination country, because Ford assumed that, at some point, the car was going to end up back here. I'll poke around and see if I can find that old list of european d.s.o. numbers that I used to have. It's been a while, but I might still have it somewhere.
Hello,
I just bought a "Californian" Mustang 64 1/2 and would like some help on the identification details. VIN : 65AM465EDSO1607D128041.
It seems to be buit on 05/05/64 (a very early one ?) and fitted with a 289ci (code D)
The other N° is 5FO7D128041.
Can you tell me more about this lovely "Wimbledon White" Mustang ?
Thanks for your help !
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Mustang 05 GT Sceaming Yellow, manual. Steeda CAI + Predator Bamachip tunes, CMDP, Underdrive Pulley,
Eibach Pro springs, Tokico D spec, Steeda Adj Panhard bar + brace, Front G brace, Uca + Lca's & relocation brakets, oil separator, hood pins. FRPP GTA muffler, Saleen HID Headlights & short throw shifter. Steeda 18" Pentar wheels with 255/45/18 front, 275/40/18 back tires.
Hello,
I just bought a "Californian" Mustang 64 1/2 and would like some help on the identification details. VIN : 65AM465EDSO1607D128041.
It seems to be buit on 05/05/64 (a very early one ?) and fitted with a 289ci (code D)
The other N° is 5FO7D128041.
Can you tell me more about this lovely "Wimbledon White" Mustang ?
Thanks for your help !
You have your info reversed.
The car's VIN is "5F07D128041", the other thing you posted is the car's info on what it came as originally but it will make more sense as I break it down. You have everything lumped together.
65A - 2dr hardtop (standard)
M - paint code for Wimbledon White
46 - interior code for Parchment with black trim
5E - date code for May 5th (1965) your car was built on or close to this date
DSO 1607D1280 - there's too many digits here that I see, even for a special order car which this car appears to be. DSO is the District Sales Office that ordered the car. 16 is for Philadelphia and is where the car was shipped after being built and sold originally at a dealer around that area. The 07D1280 is additional info about a special request that whoever ordered this car wanted, something that Ford didn't normally do. It wasn't special paint as the car is a stock offered color. Most special order cars I've seen only have a 4 digit code after the 2 digit DSO code. This is why I mention that there seems to be too many digits. I'm not saying it's wrong, it's just not something I've seen before.
4 - axle code for a 3.25 nonlocking rear axle
1 - tranny code for the 3 speed
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1968 Mustang coupe, Acapulco Blue, 289 2v, C-4, Power Steering.
Hopefully a 1969 convertible or Sportsroof (non Mach or Boss) for next Mustang project
Trying to find my father's 1973 Mustang Grande he bought brand new. 3F04F126773 last known registration and title was in New Jersey, 1982.
Thanks for your early answer, of course it's my mistake, I mixed up the figures given to me in fact the VIN is 5F07D128041 and for the rest it's : 65A M 46 5E 16 1 6.
So you nearly told me everything except the end (axel & gearbox)
The car is fitted with a "cruise o matic" automatic 3 speed gearbox (C4 ?)
From what the vendor told me, everything seems in accordance except that he says the car is a "Californian" one, originaly delivered in San Jose, but the DSO says Philadelphia (from your expertise) which seems far from California, even for a "French frog" like me !!!
Last thing, can you tell me where was originaly located the VIN tag from factory, as I've heard it was not so difficult to have a "reprint" one !!!
Thanks again for your help !
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Mustang 05 GT Sceaming Yellow, manual. Steeda CAI + Predator Bamachip tunes, CMDP, Underdrive Pulley,
Eibach Pro springs, Tokico D spec, Steeda Adj Panhard bar + brace, Front G brace, Uca + Lca's & relocation brakets, oil separator, hood pins. FRPP GTA muffler, Saleen HID Headlights & short throw shifter. Steeda 18" Pentar wheels with 255/45/18 front, 275/40/18 back tires.
Hello. Your car didn't come with a vin tag. The vin is stamped in three places on the inner fender aprons. Two of them are covered by the fenders, but one is clearly visible if you open the hood. On the driver's side there is a spot on the lip of the fender that looks like a cutout. The vin is stamped around there. Hope that helps.
Veronica,
Thanks for your help, it's not that I don't have the VIN tag on the door, but the car is presently crossing the atlantic in a container(because I live in Monaco !) and on the detailed pictures I've got from the car, the one for the driver's door is missing !!! I had the car examined by an expert so I'm convinced the details taken on the "waranty plate" are correct.
Anyway as soon as I get the (lovely) car home I'll try to get all numbers I can found to check everything !
I've heard that Marti's reports cannot be established for a 1964 1/2 model, Is it a way to get the "factory" datas on this car from another source ? This because as from the given datas, its seems to be an early 1964 1/2 and maybe one of the first 10.000 coupe built !
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Mustang 05 GT Sceaming Yellow, manual. Steeda CAI + Predator Bamachip tunes, CMDP, Underdrive Pulley,
Eibach Pro springs, Tokico D spec, Steeda Adj Panhard bar + brace, Front G brace, Uca + Lca's & relocation brakets, oil separator, hood pins. FRPP GTA muffler, Saleen HID Headlights & short throw shifter. Steeda 18" Pentar wheels with 255/45/18 front, 275/40/18 back tires.
Hi again. On that door tag, it says 'not for registration or title purposes'. I thought that you were talking about a vin tag like modern cars have, which they weren't doing in 64. My mistake. You are correct about Marti not having the records for the 65/66 model years. Yours is a pretty early car. The 28041st, to be precise. Nobody has Ford's records for your car. Ford destroyed them. As luck would have it, I have the data for a car that was scheduled for completion on the same day as your car and the vin only differs from yours by like 20, so that may 5th thing is right between the eyes. That's may 5th of 1964, though, not 1965. Monaco? Cool. I got a chance to work on an old Ferrari once, a 250 GT Buono, that was originally built for the prince of Monaco. It was a beautiful car. Red with tan interior. One of the door panels had the guy that made it's name written on the back of it. Mario. That was so cool. All of the old Ferraris were pretty much hand made. The 250 buono cars were Ferraris first attempt at mass production. They were really rockin' and rollin' and managed to complete a staggering 66 cars in only 3 short years.
Build sheet decoding 
That's a pretty neat car you have, assuming that you have the car and not just a build sheet.
It's a 66 'A' code GT, 4-speed convertible,Ivy green with parchment/ palomono pony interior built in Metuchan, N.J. with a scheduled production date of oct 25, 1965, built for export and sale in France. I believe that's the D.S.O. for Nice, but I'm not positive about that. One thing that I am positive about would be that the original owner had some money.
That would have been a pretty expensive car by the time it got to France. Hope that helps.
Mine's is a '67.
