Topic: Survival Rate of 5C and 9C cars

[Skyway65]

With all of the recent 211-212 discussion I got to wondering how many of the 5C and 9C Mustangs are accounted for and are documented to exist today.

If there were about 180 (or so) of those 5C cars produced what percent of those may still be around? Any ideas on how many 9C Mustangs were produced that first day? What is the lowest known VIN for a 10C car?

Klaus or Chuck-how many of these cars do you have current records on?

[C5ZZ]

Good question, certainly hard to say.
I have been surprized that the ones
we have heard about were still around!

The 64 1/2's have been around longer
and potentially been subjected to more
hazards of the road especially in the rust belt.

I remember in High school auto shop that we
junked a 64 1/2 coupe that had rusted out
the rear frame rails so the spring came up in
the trunk. This was in 1973/74 in Indianapolis,
the car was only 10 years old!

[1964mustang]

Hello all,  I purchased 5f08f100280 (a 10c car) from Charlotte Price, she is listed to also have  100255. I have been unable to locate her. I have tried several times. She was last in Pa. The 10c date code range that we know of, starts with 270. The dates are weird here though. 392,406,559,576 and 599 all have date codes of 11c or 12c.Then an odd ball car 614 has a 10c code as well? Go figure. 100255 I believe was a coupe with 170 cyl and the numbers in Jim's book are backwards in reguards to my 100280. 100280 is a v-8 f code. So from roughly 270-614 there were a lot of 10c cars. Remember these were scheduled due dates, not the finished dates. My 5f08u100465 car seems to have date codes of 13th on various parts of the top and fenders? I believe that car is still the earliest know 6cyl convertible that has been found so far...
In fact, I just looked at Jim's book and double checked Klaus's website and verified that 5f08u100465 is the earliest by far. The next find is 5f08u109848. How odd? 9,300 cars later???

[Skyway65]

Good stuff Chuck.  We all hope that somewhere in the bowels of the Glass House in Dearborn an old box will magically appear one day with all of this early Mustang info neatly tucked away in it.  Now wouldn't THAT be nice!