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Mail From: Walt Boeninger (email redacted)

[from (email redacted)]
>Okay, can someone explain this number to me, that I got off a '65 mustang
>coupe.
>
>On the Title: "4"F07C7######
>On the Fender: "5"F07C7######

A dealer error. When they submitted the paper work, they mistakenly
titled it as a 1964, since the 1965 model year hadn't officially
started.


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Regards

Walt Boeninger - Nor Cal SAAC Web Site - norcal-saac.org
Email: (email redacted) 67 GT500 & Shelby T-A coupe/ 71 Boss 351

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Mail From: Nathaniel Mitchell (email redacted)

>[from (email redacted)]
>>Okay, can someone explain this number to me, that I got off a '65 mustang
>>coupe.
>>
>>On the Title: "4"F07C7######
>>On the Fender: "5"F07C7######
>
>A dealer error. When they submitted the paper work, they mistakenly
>titled it as a 1964, since the 1965 model year hadn't officially
>started.
>
>[Nat.]
>That sound right, but you didn't explain to him, what the 5 on the
>fender means. the first digit in the vin, is the last digit in the
>model year. so because it is a 5 we can determine that it's a '65.
>
>Nat.
>
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>Regards
>
>Walt Boeninger - Nor Cal SAAC Web Site - norcal-saac.org
>Email: (email redacted) 67 GT500 & Shelby T-A coupe/ 71
>Boss 351
>

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Mail From: David J. Hammar (email redacted)

Brian ((email redacted)) wrote:
>Okay, can someone explain this number to me, that I got off a '65 mustang
>coupe.
>On the Title: "4"F07C7######
>On the Fender: "5"F07C7######
>The car is a basic coupe w/a 289 out of Dearborne. That I know - but what
>gives with the difference being the 4 and the 5? Anyone know?

It's a typo -- plain and simple.
The responses to this thus far seem to have assumed this is an "Early '65",
and written it off as an understandable error. But it *can't* be -- since
the 289 'C'-code wasn't offered until the start of "regular" 1965
production in August 1964. And although Brian himself made a "typo" in
submitting his VIN with a seven-digit Consecutive Unit Number, if it *does*
in fact begin with a "7", it couldn't have been built prior to mid-April
*1965*!

Some bozo at the Dealership or the DMV just couldn't type...

-- Dave H.
aloha.net/~djhamma

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Mail From: (email redacted) (email redacted)

I found out the total serial number on the title is: 4F07C781136:
Fender says: 5F07C781136:
Sorry 'bout the typo.

I think the title was a dealer typo though, as the #4 goes back on the
title all the way to the original owner.
Thanks all, your thoughts are always appreciated.
brian

p.s. I too wouldn't mind getting a cheap rotisserie, I'm in WI!

-------------you wrote-------------
And although Brian himself made a "typo" in submitting his VIN with a
seven-digit Consecutive Unit Number, if it *does* in fact begin with a "7",
it couldn't have been built prior to mid-April *1965*!
-- Dave H.
aloha.net/~djhamma
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