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1967 Mustang / 67 Early Version Trunk Filler Panel Retaining Hardware

« Last post by J_Speegle on Today at 06:27:17 PM »

The discussion about the two types of filler boards/panels came up in another thread and in turn the retaining hardware used for the early Masonite board based on car assembly plant. Went through my pictures and came up with examples from each plant so thought I should share what I found


Dearborn used a hex headed screw with a large intergrated washer style





Metuchen  used a Phillips headed screw with intergrated washer style




San Jose used a Phillips headed screw with intergrated washer style

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1967 Mustang / Re: 67 Coupe trunk filler panel

« Last post by J_Speegle on Today at 06:14:41 PM »

The Phillips head screw type is the early Masonite board fastener https://www.npdlink.com/search/products?search_terms=011229-1AK&top_parent=200001&year=  . I have not seen the hex head one used for this application.

Had not heard or seen the different attaching hardware but a quick look at my pictures it appears there is some truth to this. Will start a new thread to look into the subject and post examples. Not really, at this point, a running change so will try and cover all three plants in one thread and see how that goes


Also while on the subject all three body types use the same filler board or panel.

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1967 Mustang / Re: 67 Remote view mirror glass date code

« Last post by dkknab on Today at 05:59:33 PM »

Mirrors can be identified by understanding a few simple rules.  If the mirror is marked with "DMI" it was supplied to Ford by "Donnelly Mirror INC".  The first number identified the  month  produced.    The DMI is Donnelly company, and the second number gives the year........Hope this in some way helps you  identify at least two sources of outside mirrors and the manufacturers marks and date coding

Thank you also for this info. This is fantastic. 

My personal question relating to my car then is if I have two mirrors,  12-DMI-7 and 6-DMI-7, of which 12-DMI-7 was found on the driver side,  which could have been switched from one side of the car to the other when it was repainted,  was the passenger side mirror added possibly when the car was purchased to make it a dealer installed option and that would be ok for MCA driven standards or will it always be a deduction unless it's gone,  no matter?

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1964 1/2 - 1965 / Re: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?

« Last post by carlite65 on Today at 05:38:25 PM »

my october 23 dearborn 2+2 has the slide plate.

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1967 Mustang / Re: 67 Remote view mirror glass date code

« Last post by carlite65 on Today at 05:36:26 PM »

great info there murf! never knew that.......always learn something here!

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1967 Mustang / Re: 67 Remote view mirror glass date code

« Last post by Murf on Today at 05:33:54 PM »

Mirrors can be identified by understanding a few simple rules.  If the mirror is marked with "DMI" it was supplied to Ford by "Donnelly Mirror INC".  The first number identified the  month  produced.    The DMI is Donnelly company, and the second number gives the year.  There was a second supplier to Ford named "AJAX" and the mirrors they supplied were coded in the following way:  First symbol will be a letter of the alphabet indicating the MONTH (January would be indicated by "A" . "B" would indicate February and so on)  The letters JX will follow the month, and the last two numbers will indicate the year.  (67)  so you would see a mark such as A-JX-68 for a mirror coded January of 1968 and manufactured by Ajax  INC.  Hope this in some way helps you  identify at least two sources of outside mirrors and the manufacturers marks and date coding

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1968 Mustang / Re: 1968 San Jose GT 390 Fastback Drivers Side Mirror mounts

« Last post by dkknab on Today at 05:11:35 PM »

Hi Dave I have none dealt with my doors yet as I have been making no progress on my car recently. However I don't recall mine spinning. I will have to check and get back to you. Thanks for reminding me as it is on my to do list.

Thanks Mike.  I'll be curious what you discover.  I'm wondering how are the factory inserts put into the door and how are they supposed to stay still, not rotate.  Seems that is a common problem. I also can't tell how to remove the factory inserts without enlarging the hole and beating up the door.  If you have any thoughts on either that would be great.

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1964 1/2 - 1965 / Re: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?

« Last post by jwc66k on Today at 04:49:49 PM »

The 1965 Mustang Body Assembly Manual (AM0006) pg 86 (the page number is blurred on my copy - ref N5-8930) shows the addition of the spare wheel plate, C5ZB-1424-A, and "hook" bolt, C5AB-1448-B, both with an effective date of 10-9-64.
This does not really establish an absolute date, but a Ford engineering change to an assembly line procedure. We know that Ford used up existing items in many cases.
Jim

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1968 Mustang / Re: 1968 San Jose GT 390 Fastback Drivers Side Mirror mounts

« Last post by bullitt68 on Today at 04:32:13 PM »

Hey Mike

Wondering what you ultimately did to install your driver side mirror.  I have mine off.  The rear insert spins completely.  The front one spins a quarter turn.  I'd like to replace both of them with nutsert.  What tool do you have and what size nutsert did you use?

Hi Dave I have none dealt with my doors yet as I have been making no progress on my car recently. However I don't recall mine spinning. I will have to check and get back to you. Thanks for reminding me as it is on my to do list.

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1964 1/2 - 1965 / Re: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?

« Last post by J_Speegle on Today at 04:13:48 PM »

If your looking for an exact date we will not have that since we don't have real build dates for any of these early cars and if possibly varied a little depending on car assembly plant. We see that your likely looking for NJ built data


Yes there is a running changes thread on the subject by plant unfortunately given the area most of the NJ cars were sold to and the resulting rust in many of the examples we don't have as much examples that have not been repaired or restored. For example we've got San Jose (so far) down to late Jan 65 so basically early Feb is in the possible range also.

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