Until recently I was able to visit a dedicated site for non-US built Ford Mustangs:
South of the Border Mustang Registry. Unfortunately, it appears as if this site has recently been shut down.
The owner was Dave Hammar (
[email protected]) - I am though not sure if this email address still works.
Dave's site would have confirmed to you the production of early Ford Mustangs in Mexico until about 1973.
And it contained details of quite an impressive number of still existing Mexican Mustangs.
His site did provide details to VINs for Mexican built Mustangs (which differed from the US VINs).
Examples:
VIN AF07FL14753
A= Ford USA
F= La Villa factory
07= hardtop
F= 1966 model
L=built in January 1966
14753= consecutive no. starting with 10000
[see
http://www.ponysite.de/mexicomustangs.htm]
VIN AF07HT13853
A= Ford USA
F= La Villa factory
07= hardtop
H= 1968 model
T=built in December 1968
13853= consecutive no. starting with 10000
[a 1969 model presented in July 2008 in Mustang Monthly]
Your VIN commencing with AF0... could then indeed point at a car 'Hecho en Mexico. Possibly built in 1970 :bigthumbsup
A note: The first Shelby Mustangs were incidentally also produced in Mexico. Take a look at
South of the Boarder
And ... do you speak Spanish? More 'Mexican Mustang' pictures here:
Shelby de Mexico, “Nothing runs faster than a scared Mexican Bandit” | La caca de chango
:bigthumbsup:bigthumbsup
