Introduction


The Mustang pictured below (bottom) was first purchased by my father-in-law, Buddy, in 1986, in Connecticut. Shortly after, he purchased a second six-cylinder convertible and sold the pictured one to my wife's cousin, Ronnie. Dad died in 1994. When Ronnie decided to sell the car to finance an in-ground swimming pool in 2006, my wife Sharon and I decided to buy it, and brought it home to Tennessee.
The car had undergone a cosmetic restoration before Dad bought it, and apart from some minor detailing since then, was still in the same condition when we bought it.
In June 2010, I found out it was a Sprint 200, Package A, 3-speed manual transmission. And after reading an article in the archives of the Mustang Times by Jim Smart, went looking for the Broadcast (Build) Sheet. I found it wrapped around the wiring harness behind the speedometer. After a brief search to find out what all the codes meant, I realized that surprisingly little is known or published about these documents. So I decided I'd try to attempt to decode it myself. This blog is a journal of that research.
All discussions below currently pertain to only 1966 Mustangs.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Car Line

The 1st box from the left on the second line contains the Car Line code. All Mustangs in 1966 had a code of Z. The few 1965 broadcast sheets I have however, have a C for the Mustang code.


CAR LINE
A
Galaxie
P
Autolite/Motorcraft
D
Falcon (60-69)
R
Rotunda
F
Outside US, T/A Racing
S
Thunderbird
G
Comet/Montego
T
Truck
J
Industrial
V
Lincoln (61+)
M
Mercury
Z
Mustang
O
Fairlane/Torino



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