It’s the late 70’s. There was a yard in our area, Wades, that mostly sold rebuilders. There was a woody wagon I was interested in visible from the road. When I was there looking it over I spotted a ‘65 Mustang convertible. The grease pen price on the window was $175. WOW! When I approached Wade about it “I don’t have any $175 Mustang out there.” He checked his inventory,“Oh, that’s $575.” I explained that the price on the window was clearly $175. “Well people are always rubbing off numbers and changing our prices .” Don’t know how you make a 5 into a 1 but ok. I went home and decided that $575 WAS still a good deal so it came to live in my garage. One day I was thumbing thru my Mustangs Forever book waiting for guests to arrive for my son’s birthday party. It stated that ALL ‘65s had alternators. Another place it stated that the early ‘65s (‘64 1/2) had generators. I ran out to the garage and popped the hood. Sure enough, I had bought a ‘64 1/2 Mustang convertible for $575.
... View more